...descendants, had many and important privileges. They had "much advantage every way: chiefly, because that 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; theirs were the fathers,...

...and (3.) the high privileges with which they had been invested — they were " Israelites : 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." The Israelitish people, as a body — the great...

...and (3.) the high privileges with which they had been invested — they were " Israelites : 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." The Israelitish people, as a body — the great...

...Testament. They were the first preachers of the gospel. They were the first missionaries to the Gentiles. 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 God over all, blessed for...

...and that corrupted ; and were buried in false notions, superstition, and idolatry. But to the Jews 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.' (Ko;n. ix, 4.) In...

...rejected him — the seed of Abraham — to whom were committed the oracles of God — to whom once 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. If these should still remain aloof, the glory of...

...and politically, at the period of the first promulgation of the Gospel. The Jews, " to whom " had " pertained the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants,...the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh, Christ came;"b who had been rendered by a course of direct supernatural agencies the means of preserving...

...name for ever, and this is my memorial uuto all generations?" Is this, in a word, the people, "to whom 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, the Christ came, who is over all, God blessed...

...committed the oracles of God." This one circumstance comprehended a vast variety of unspeakable mercies. To them "pertained the adoption, and the glory, and...the fathers, and of whom, as concerning the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever." Some of the mercies here enumerated were peculiar...

...individual history, through the chosen people of the grace of God. " Ye are a chosen generation." 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...