How blessed is the account here given of the Gentile church. To this same root of Jesse, meaning Christ, shall the Gentiles seek. And that we might not lose sight of our elder brethren, the Jews, the Lord here promiseth to lay his hand the second time, to recover them. The interests of both shall be interwoven, and ultimately bound up together. So very powerfully will the Lord work in the accomplishment, that all the seven streams of the Nile, yea, if Jordan or Euphrates were in the way; all should be dried up, and cease to flow, rather than the streams of that river, even the gospel, which maketh glad the city of God, should have the tide of its blessings stopped; by which salvation is made known, and rendered effectual to the Lord's people. Think, Reader, what overwhelming blessings flow in, with Jesus, upon the soul? If the Red Sea dried up to open a passage to Israel, how shall not the redeemed go over dryshod, to whom Jesus hath opened a new and living way by his blood? Exodus 14:29.

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