comes on people only through Jesus Christ, and that promise of the Spirit
None are Abraham's real seed spiritually but real believers; Ergo, none are his visible seed but visible believers. The Scripture plainly holds forth, that none are really Abraham's seed but true believers, Gal. 3. ult. "And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." The apostle is there speaking to such as in the judgment of charity were Abraham's seed; but because men may be Abraham's seed that way, yet none of his in the judgment of God, he tells them who they are that are the true seed of Abraham, even they that are Christ's by real union with him through faith; not by a bare profession, or by baptism without true godliness: for there were none of them but were baptized, and professed Christ, but that was not enough to make them heirs according to the promise, and consequently not enough to make them sons either. Gal. 3:7. "They which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham." ver. 9. "So then they which be of faith, are blessed with faithful Abraham."
4. Those only are thus visibly blessed for whom it appears Christ has died, and who are apparently redeemed by him from the curse of the law; and such are only visible believers and their seed: for the apostle plainly teacheth, that these go before the blessing of Abraham, as the procuring causes thereof, vers. 13. 14. "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law—that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith." Now, it is certain, that God's being Abraham's God, and the God of his seed, was the blessing of Abraham, comprehending all other particular blessings, which is now come on the Gentiles.
5. From the same Scripture we further argue thus: That blessing which comes on people only through Jesus Christ, and that promise of the Spirit (or promised Spirit) which is received only by faith, doth visibly belong to none but visible believers, such as appear to be in Christ and endued with faith; but such is the blessing of Abraham which comes on the Gentiles: Ergo, the proposition is plain: for where there is no visible evidence of a person's being in Christ, through whom alone the blessing comes; where there are no probable signs of faith through which it is received, that blessing is not, nor cannot be visibly come on them.
6. Lastly, It sounds exceedingly harsh, to say, that God is the God of a