people ready for the Lord at His coming. The end of all the institutions He gave them was so to develop faith and holiness in them that they should discern and receive His Son. And Jesus during His ministry gave them every possible proof of His divine character, and reproved and warned and beseeched them, that He might save them from the guilt of His rejection; yet all in vain. “He came unto His own, and His own received Him not.” How touching are His farewell words to Jerusalem, (Matt. 23:37): “How
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