also to show the nature of the ulterior fulfilment, and the scheme of redemption, as concerning particularly the remnant of the promises (or heel of Jacob) that is signified in it, to whom sin is imputed, and who are still therefore answerable or amenable to the law, which was written, upon tables 430 years after the promises to Abraham; the sum of which has indeed been written upon the heart from the beginning, the conscience being witness; and the law (as saith Saint Paul) did not disannul the promises. For though Jesus hath redeemed us by his blood, and that we are thus bought with a price, and are therefore his possession, yet must there be a manifested display of that redemption at the last, which is deferred, by reason that the body is not whole, if that a member ails. The heel of the woman, answering to the remnant of the promised seed, though out of every generation and nation, must be reclaimed and restored, before the body can be whole, or that she which is called barren, and that doth not travail, can bring forth her children, that must be born again of water and the spirit; and whose change will be in a moment, in

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the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump. St. Paul points to this manifestation of redemption with power, where he says, "after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance, until the redemp tion of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory."

> It will be shown, that the seed according to the promises are composed out of every generation, out of every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, which no man can number, and that this is the true Israel or Jerusalem, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel. That the remnant to whom sin is imputed must be delivered at last, at the restitution of all things, which is signified in an allegory to be the Daughter of Zion, and who is represented in contradistinction to Zion, which doth not travail, to be, as the bondwoman, in travail with her children; as it is written, "Therefore will he give them up until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth; then the remnant of his brethren shall return

He "whose goings forth have been from of old, from ever

unto the children of Israel." Again, "Be in pain and labour to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail; for now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou shalt dwell in the field*, and thou shalt go even to Babylon; there the Lord shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies."

Thus, I shall endeavour to prove from the scriptures, that the remnant of the promises, whom Jeremiah terms "the daughter of his people," shall at the end of the centuries, when the fulness of the gentiles come in, be made under signal judgments to repent of their sins, and however scattered among the nations, they shall be brought, by marvellous things being done for them, to the heavenly, as the Israelites were conducted to the earthly, Canaan. The limb being thus restored, then the barren ́shall bear, as it is written, "Before she travailed she

will declare thy, name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee. Again," Behold I and the children which God hath given me;" the apostle quotes from Isaiah, and it is the stone speaking by the mouth and in the person of Isaiah. Esaias saith, "Behold I and the children which God hath given me, are for signs and for wonders in Israel rom the Lord of Hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion." * Or wilderness.

brought forth," in reference to" the regeneration" (the being born again of water and the spirit) "when the Son of Man shall sit upon the throne of his glory." Then will be shown the reward" eye hath not seen, nor hath the ear been told;" and then will be manifested, that the seed only, according to the promises, are truly Jews *, and that gentile is in contradistinction to these, and not to jew" of the circumcision made by hands." Then shall" the seed accounted for a generation,"-" a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people,” inherit the gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited. Isaiah hath it, "Before Zion travailed she brought forth her children:"-a nation shall be born at once, and shall reign upon the earth; children shall rule, as it is written, "Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength, because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and avenger." Again, "I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them." "Thus saith the Lord God, Behold I will lift up my hand to the gentiles, and set up my

See Romans ii. 28, 29.

standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders. And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee, with their face toward the earth, lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me."

"We should be mindful" (saith St. Peter) "of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour: knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation." St. Paul saith, "The time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears, and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned into fables." In the second epistle to the Thessalonians, the apostle saith, that " The day of