richness of His grace. He is the First, when He calls Adam and Noah, Abraham and Israel unto His communion and fellowship but He also remains this, when with them He also accepts their children into His covenant. I will be a God unto thee and unto thy seed after thee. Thus is the promise with which God binds Himself unto the elect in their generations. And before our children were born, before they had done either good or evil; He it is, that said in His free almighty power: I will have mercy on
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