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Dissertations on the Foederal Transactions Between God and His Church
Dissertations on the Foederal Transactions Between God and His Church Author:John Muirhead Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: faith of Abraham might be tried with waiting God's time, on the one hand ; and his impatience alfb chaftifed, which impelled him to grafp at comfort, before it w... more »as given him, on the other. The patriarch was taught to look over human ability, unto divine Ibvereignty, for all he had to expecl: by this covenant. Had the promife of making Sarah a mother been given at an earlier period, lefs of God would have been feeii in the accomplifhment of it; but now there is no room to afcribe that event unto any other. PART IV. Gen. xxii. 15-—18. IJ4 furveying this TranfaAion, I mall follow the lame method as in the foregoing Part. FIRST, 1 muft give a fhort view of the Parties covenanting. I. THE firft" party is denominated " Thb Angel Of The Lord." He is the very fame angel who ftopt the (laughter of Ifaac : " And the angel of the Lord called to him out of heaven, and faid, Abraham, Abraham; And he faid, Here am I. And he faid, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing to him : for now I know that thon fear- eft God, feeing thou haft not with-hcld thy fbn, thine only fon from me.—And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the fecond time ." He who fpake unto Abraham the fecond time, is the very fame perfon from whom the patriarch did not withhold his fon, even his only foil; of conlequence, he can be no other than the uncreated Angel Of The Covenant : For Abraham never intended to offer Ifaac unto an inferior one j". The name Ang El imports muTion ; or he who is lent. "When it is applied to the Son of God, it denotes his being the fent of God for the Gen. xxn. u, 12. and ver. 15. f Dr Willet imagined it was a. created angel who announced this promife unto the patriarch ; but the rea- fons he aifigng for hia opinion are by no means decinVe:...« less