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NONE
EXCLUDED
FROM
HOPE.
{SEAM.
XIX.
transacted,
it
goes
forth'to
the
rest of
the nations
with
brighter
evidence and
glory.
might
add
in
the
last
place,
that
it
was
.
fit
it
should
be
first
published
to the
Jews,
who seemed to
have
the;
first claim to
it
;
that
since they
refused
it,
it
might
be
offered
to
the poor
gentile
nations
with
greater
justice and
equity, even.: the
Jews
themselves being
judges:
Such
are the frequent hints
given by
St.
Paul;
Acts
xiii.
46.
It
was
necessary
that
the
word,
of
God
should
have
been
first
spoke to
you;
but
seeing
ye
put
it
from
you, atul
judge
yourselves unworthy
of
everlasting
life,
lo,
we
turn
to
the gentiles.
Be
it
known
therefore
unto.
you,
that
the
salvation
of
God
is sent,
unto
the
gen-
tiles,
and
they
trill
-hear
it,
Acts
xxviii. 28.
When
we
think
of
that
poor unhappy nation,
the Jews,,
scattered abroad
among
-all
the .kingdoms
of
the
earth,
banished
from
their
own
promised
land
for their, rejec-
tion
of
Christ, and yet hardened
in
their'
unbelief, me-
thinks
we
should send
out
a groan of
pityfor
them
;
for
they
are,
the
sons
and daughters
of
Abraham, the first
favourites
of
our God.
Jesus
our Saviour
was
their
141essiah,
their
kinsman and
their rightful
king.
We
should
send up
a
kind
wish,
to
heaven upon their
ac=
count,
"How
long, O.
Lord,
how
long shall Israel, be
cast
off? How long wilt
thou
be
angry with the
children
of
Abraham,
thy
friend? When
shall
the day
come
for
the
opening_of
their
eyes,.
that
they may look on
Jesus
whom
they,
pierced, and
believe
and mourn?
When
shall
the
veil
be
taken
off from
their
hearts,
that
they may
read
the books
of
Moses,,and.
trust
in
Jesus
of Nazareth,
whom
their fathers
crucified
?"
When
we see
one and
another
of
the Jewish
nation
in
this
great
city,
and think
of
their
blindness
and their
zeal for the idle
traditions of their
teachers, and observe
their ignorant
rage
against our
blessed
Saviour
;
when
we behold
the vain
superstitions
of their
worship, the
thick darkness
that
hangs upon them
under
the
brightest
beams
of
gospel light, and
their
wide
distance
from
sal
-
vation,
we
should
let our
eyes
affect
our
hearts,
and
drop
a
tear
of
compassion
upon their
-souls.
"
These.
were they to
whom the
pomises
of
salvation .did
first
belong,
and
to whom
the first
flews
was
brought,
that'
Jcsus
the Saviour
is
born. These are
they to whom
the