from the Jews. It is not “as though the Word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel” (Rom. 9:6). To apply Paul’s distinction here, they are not all the Christian church who are of the Christian church. There are those who are covenantally of the Church, but who are not individually regenerate. And if someone dies apart from that regeneration which brings us out of our native condition of spiritual death, such a person is lost eternally. In other words, Christians