Arrowsmith - Houston-Packer Collection BT70 .A776 1659

eft Chain of `Principles. Aph. S. ofgrace was effetual, and in whom (as few as they were) Gods promife to Abrahamwas preferved. As for thofe unto whom his Gofpel was hid they wereas he elfewhere tels the Corin- c °Y °° . thians a fort of loft men and wo- men. For this fee Chapter 9. verfe 6, 7, 8. Not ad though the word of God path taken none eft`. For they are not all Ifrael which are of Ifrael. Neither be caufe they are the feed of Abraham are they all children. But in lfaac 'ball thy feed be called. That is They which are the children of the flejb thef are not the children of God ; but the children of the promife are counted for the feed. Where the Elea people of God ( who one ly are accounted the fpirituall feed, andwhoonely in the conclufion will concur to conítitute Chrift Myffical)- are í{yled children of the Promife, perhaps in reference to that grace and Promife of eternal life, given to them in Chrid Jefus before the worldbegan, to which I have fpoken before in this Apho-

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