A history of the work of redemption. Containing the outlines of a body of…

(2) They were rejected and cast off from being any longer God's ⟨p. 198⟩visible people. They were broken off from the flock of Abraham, and since that have no more been reputed his seed, than the Ishmaelites or Edomites, who are as much his natural seed as they. The greater part of the two tribes were now cast off, as the ten tribes had been before, and another people were taken in their room, agreeable to the predictions of their own prophets; as of Moses, Deut. xxxii.21. "They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities; and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people, I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation;" and of Isaiah, lxv.1. "I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not▪"—They were visibly rejected and cast off, by God's directing his apostles to […] away from them, and let them alone; as Acts xiii.46.47. "Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God […] first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles: for so hath the Lord commanded us." And so Acts xviii.6. and xxviii.28.

(2) They were rejected and cast off from being any longer God's ⟨p. 198⟩visible people. They were broken off from the flock of Abraham, and since that have no more been reputed his seed, than the Ishmaelites or Edomites, who are as much his natural seed as they. The greater part of the two tribes were now cast off, as the ten tribes had been before, and another people were taken in their room, agreeable to the predictions of their own prophets; as of Moses, Deut. xxxii.21. "They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities; and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people, I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation;" and of