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That Jerusalem should be rejected, and Rome admitted, Ibid.

That the name of the Jews should be rejected, 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.

Men have in the first age of the world been carried away into every kind of
debauchery, and yet there were saints, as Enoch, Lamech, and others, who
waited patiently for the Christ promised from the beginning of the world.
Noah saw the wickedness of men at its height; and he was held worthy to save
the world in his person, by the hope of the Messiah of whom he was the type.
Abraham was surrounded by idolaters, when God made known to him the mystery
of the Messiah, whom he welcomed from afar. In the time of Isaac and Jacob,
abomination was spread over all the earth; but these saint