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and a new name given. Isaiah
65:15.
That this last name should be more excellent than that of the Jews, and
eternal. Isaiah 56:5.
That the Jews should be without prophets (Amos), without a king, without
princes, without sacrifice, without an idol.
That the Jews should, nevertheless, always remain a people. Jer. 31:36
611. Republic.--The Christian republic--and even the Jewish--has only had
God for ruler, as Philo the Jew notices, On Monarchy.
When they fought, it was for God only; their chief hope was in God only;
they considered their towns as belonging to God only, and kept them for God.
I Chron. 19:13.
612. Gen. 17:7. Statuam pactum meum inter me et te foedere sempiterno... us
sim Deus tuus...[108]
Et tu ergo custodies pactum meum.109
Perpetuity.--That religion has always existed on earth which consists in
believing that man has fallen from a state of glory and of communion with
God into a state of sorrow, penitence, and estrangement from God, but that
after this life we shall be restored by a Messiah who should have come. All
things have passed away, and this has endured, for which all things are.
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