Excerpt from A Dissertation on the Conversion and Restoration of the Jews: Wherein It Is Shewn, That the Time When These Important Events Are Destined to Happen, Is, in All Probability, Very Near

Eii'eets of his own free bounty and goodnefs; and as none of his creatures could be fuppofed to have any claim upon him, fo it was wholly in his option, whether to beilow thefe bleflings at all on mankind or not, and to confer them upon whom, and in whatfoever meafure, he pleafed. He might have mercy on whom he would have mercy; and there could be no injullice in denying that to fome, which he was not obliged to beltow upon any: That as the potter hath power over the clay, of the fame lump, to make one vefi'el to honour, and another to dilhonour; (o was the great Creator of the world at liberty, not only to make his creatures of different ranks and orders, and to endue them with different talents and capacities, but even, of the fame race and order of beings, to rail'e fome to higher degrees of perfection and happinefs than others, and to place them in circumliances more or lel's advantageous, as to his infinite wifdom fhould feem moit proper, for anfwering the wife ends Of his providence. He rea fons alfo from analogy, which is the furei't guide to man in all his inquiries into the nature of God's moral government; and {hows us, that the conduet of Providence, in choofing the Gentiles to be his church and people in the room of the Jews, is exaeily conformable to the difpenfations of his grace in for mer ages. He infiances in the cafe of Ifaac, who was the only perfon, of all the numerous polterity of Abraham, that God chofe to be the father of his church, and heir of the promifes: As likewife in that of Jacob, who was preferred to the fame honour, in the room of his elder brother Efau, who was the natural heir: and betwixt whole rejee'tion, and that.

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