...throne of David. They would not recognize, in a homeless wanderer, that long-promised seed of Abraham, in whom " all the families of the earth were to be blessed," and to whom " the gathering of the people should be." All the circumstances of our Lord's humiliation...

...parental feelings overcome, how could the promise of a numerous nation be accomplished, and of a Messiah, in whom all the families of the earth were to be blessed, as the descendant of Isaac? There were indeed difficulties in prospect. But Abraham staggered not at...

...this branch of our subject, since it was most peculiarly and exclusively a Jewish event, so far. He in whom all the families of the earth were to be blessed, was emphatically the seed of Abraham ; and we shall see how peculiarly this was marked in the language...

...she was actually a believer in the promise made to her. The seed of Abraham according to the flesh, in whom all the families of the earth were to be blessed, was to descend from the son of Sarah. The faith of Sarah is expressly mentioned in the letter to the...

...elect people and many powerful kings, whose history was to occupy so large a space in the book of God, in whom all the families of the earth were to be blessed, a forlorn wanderer, banished from his fathers house, his whole inheritance his staff in his hand !...

...to Declare His Acceptance. The Jews' reliance on their descent from Abraham, and as the Seed of him, GFс $ k$ 0 ۷m G e was vain indeed, as manifesting a total want of that Faith, which workcth by obedience, and which was...

...an atonement, and lead them to embrace by faith the blessed Mediator, the Seed promised to Abraham, in whom all the families of the earth were to be blessed. The law, therefore, was published at Sinai as a covenant of works, in subservience to the covenant of grace....

...accomplishment : the seed of the woman who was to bruise the head of the serpent ; the seed of Abraham, in whom all the families of the earth were to be blessed ; the great Prophet like unto Moses, whom all men were required to hear and obey ; the Priest after the order...

...of old. JACOB (H. he that supplanti; AM 3344, AC 2204, V. 1836), one of the three great patriarchs in whom all the families of the earth were to be blessed (Gen. xxii. 18) ; a promise of which we of these days have seen, and are more and more fully seeing,...

...might receive his son back in a higher form as from the dead, and behold in him as a type the seed " in whom all the families of the earth were to be blessed," and " seeing His day might be glad " (John viii. 55). A concise sketch of the arrangement will make...