Deuteronomy 29:12-15

It is a delightful thought, that in the gospel church, as in the Jewish, the absent soul is as much included as the one that is present. If absent in body, yet present in spirit. JESUS, the great head of his people, with whom the covenant is made, is the same yesterday, and today, and forever. Hence he saith himself, "that I should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given me." All are beheld in him from the beginning. See those precious scriptures, John 6:37; John 6:37; Isaiah 8:18.