...and had made a covenant with him and with his seed. A glorious Saviour was to descend from his race, in whom all the families of the earth were to be blessed. In this covenant, pardon, grace, strength, consolation, were assured to all God's heritage. In reference...

...characters of the Messiah was fulfilled in him; the principal promises concerning the great personage, ' in whom all the families of the earth were to be blessed,' having been made to those patriarchs in quality of his progenitors ; first to Abraham, Gen. xxii. 18,...

...' chiefly refers to his covenant with Abraham, and the foundation of which was the coining Messiah, in whom all the families of the earth were to be blessed. The ' ladder' seems designed for a type and emblem of the covenant of grace — in force, indeed, from...

...the church and people of God, nor be eutitled to the possession of Canaan, nor give birth to the Seed in whom all the families of the earth were to be blessed. 5. The circumstance of Esau's being older than Jacob, was very properly taken notice of, to shew that...

...the birth of Isaac ; the long expected seed, the child of promise, the declared progenitor of Him, in whom " all the families of the earth were to be blessed;" when God said to Abraham, " Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee...

...each successive period of time, Christ was increasingly revealed. Abraham embraced him as the seed in whom all the families of the earth were to be blessed. Jacob spoke of him as God's salvation, the Shiloh, Shepherd and stone of Israel. Moses by God's appointment...

...the church and people of God, nor be entitled to the possession of Canaan, nor give birth to the seed in whom all the families of the earth were to be blessed. — 5. The circumstance of Esau's being older than Jacob was very properly taken notice of, to shew...

...says God, "and make thee a blessing." This was done, not only in the descent of the Messiah from him, in whom all the families of the earth were to be blessed eventually ; but by his prayers, and instructions, and example, and exertions, and influence wherever...

...of Heaven, to immolate, on the heights of Moriah, his only son Isaac, the child of peculiar promise, in whom all the families of the earth were to be blessed. Learn from his example, the nature and extent of your duty, in relation to the clearly-ascertained...

...Christ 1921) that, by him and his seed, the true religion might be preserved till the coming of Christ, in whom all the families of the earth were to be blessed. Abraham is called the Father of the Faithful, and was greatly distinguished for his faith and obedience....