Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous (Neh. 9:7–8). Consider what those Levites said about Abraham, as they sought to worship the God of Abraham. ‘[Thou] didst choose Abram’—Abraham belonged to God by God’s choice in electing love and grace. ‘And broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees’—he was brought to believe God by God’s call, by effectual, irresistible grace. ‘And gavest him the name Abraham’—Abram, the pagan,
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