An humble inquiry into the rules of the Word of God, concerning the qualifications…

But these were Privileges more especially belonging to them under the Old Testament: They were a Family that God had chosen in Distinction from all others, to show special Favour to above all other Nations. 'Twas manifestly agreeable to God's Design to constitute Things so under the Old Testament, that the Means of Grace and spiritual Privileges and Blessings should be, tho' not wholly, yet in a great Measure confined to a particular Family, much more than those Privileges and Blessings are confined to any Posterity or Blood now under the Gospel. God did purposely so order Things that that Nation should by these Favours be distinguished, not only from those who were not Professors of the Worship of the true God, but also in a great Measure from other Nations, by a Wall of Separation that he made. This was not merely a Wall of Separation between Professors and Non-Professors (such a Wall of Separation as this remains still in the Days of the Gospel) but between NATION and NATIONS. God, if he pleases, may by his Sovereignty annex his Blessing, and in some Measure fix it, for his own Reasons, to a particular Blood, as well as to a particular Place or Spot of Ground, to a certain Building, to a particular Heap of Stones, or Altar of Brass, to particular Garments, and other external Things. And 'tis evident, that he actually did affix his Blessing to that particular external Family of Jacob, very much as he did to the City Jerusalem, that he chose to place his Name there, and to Mount Zion where he commanded the Blessing. God did not so affix his Blessing to Jerusalem or Mount Zion, as to limit himself, either by confining the Blessing wholly to that Place, never to bestow it elsewhere: nor by obliging himself always to bestow it on those that sought him there; nor yet obliging himself never to withdraw his Blessing from thence, by forsaking his dwelling Place there, and leaving it to be a common or profane Place: But he was pleased so to annex his Blessing to that Place, as to make it the Seat of his Blessing in a peculiar Manner, in great Distinction from other Places. In ⟨p. 87⟩like Manner did he fix his Blessing to that Blood or Progeny of Jacob. It was a Family which he delighted in, and which he blessed in a peculiar Manner, and to which he in a great Measure confined the Blessing;

But these were Privileges more especially belonging to them under the Old Testament: They were a Family that God had chosen in Distinction from all others, to shew special Favour to above all other Nations. 'Twas manifestly agreeable to God's Design to constitute Things so under the Old Testament, that the Means of Grace and spiritual Privileges and Blessings should be, tho' not wholly, yet in a great Measure confined to a particular Family, much more than those Privileges and Blessings are confined to any Posterity or Blood now under the Gospel. God did purposely so order Things that that Nation should by these Favours be distinguished, not only from those who were not Professors of the Worship of the true God, but also in a great Measure from other Nations, by a Wall of Separation that he made. This was not meerly a Wall of Separation between Professors and Non-Professors (such a Wall of Separation as this remains still in the Days of the Gospel) but between NATION and NATIONS. God, if he pleases, may by his Sovereignty annex his Blessing, and in some Measure fix it, for his own Reasons, to a particular Blood, as well as to a particular Place or Spot of Ground, to a certain Building, to a particular Heap of Stones, or Altar of Brass, to particular Garments, and other external Things. And 'tis evident, that he actually did affix his Blessing to that particular external Family of Jacob, very much as he did to the City Jerusalem, that he chose to place his Name there, and to Mount Zion where he commanded the Blessing. God did not so affix his Blessing to Jerusalem or Mount Zion, as to limit himself, either by confining the Blessing wholly to that Place, never to bestow it elsewhere: nor by obliging himself always to bestow it on those that sought him there; nor yet obliging himself never to withdraw his Blessing from thence, by forsaking his dwelling Place there, and leaving it to be a common or profane Place: But he was pleased so to annex his Blessing to that Place, as to make it the Seat of his Blessing in a peculiar Manner, in great Distinction from other Places. In