...contends that they did not confer any exclusive right to the latter. He says, that to the Israelites " pertained the adoption, and the glory, and " the covenants,...and the service of God, and the promises ; " whose are the fathers, and of whom as " concerning the flesh Christ came, who is " over all, God blessed...

...unto Israel; and dealt not so with any nation." And Paul describes his brethren, as those " to whom pertained the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants,..." the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever." Every part of their history should therefore be...

...and, as for his judgments, they have not known them." What says Paul? "Who are Israelites: to whom pertained the adoption, and the glory, and the covenant,...law, and the service of God, and the promises: whose are the fathers, and of whom, as concerning the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for...

...them in all their wanderings while in the wilderness. Thus, in the language of the Apostle, to Israel pertained " the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants,...law, and the service of God, and the promises ; whose are the fathers, and of whom, as concerning the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for...

...union with Israel and Judah, to whom pertained the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the service of God, and the promises, whose were the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came ? (Rom. ix. 4, 5.) Have not the Gentiles, then, as being received into fellowship with...

...us not forget their claims to our veneration, enumerated in that pathetic plea of the apostle — " To them pertained the adoption, and the glory, and...law, and the service of God and the promises, whose are the fathers, and of whom, as concerning the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed forever!"...

...particular. Why werelhe Jews rejected? They had many advantages— • • chiefly, they possessed the oracles of God : to them pertained the adoption, and the glory, and the covenant, and the giving of the law, and thepromises," etc.(Rom. ix. 4, 5)— they were particularly...

...well. But it was because they were of the household of faith — "children of the promise"— "to whom pertained the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants,...the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for everi" Hence it was, that in cities of Greece and in...

...the Sacred Records, they, under the special direction of Providence, acled as became those "to whom pertained the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants,...the fathers, and of whom, as concerning the flesh, Christ was to come, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen." 2. The ardent expectation with which...

...were chosen out of all the kindreds of the earth to be God's peculiar portion and inheritance. "Unto them were committed the oracles of God"; to them pertained "the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises." But, oh, into how...