Does God
NOT bid us to look for any such blessings? The Jews were to be
blessed in THIS world. Are we only to be blessed in the next?
To that the Seventh Article of our Church gives a plain and positive
answer. For it says that those are not to be heard who pretend that
the old Fathers, i.e. Moses and the Prophets, looked only for
transitory promises--i.e. for promises which would pass away. No.
They looked for eternal promises which could not pass away, because
they were according to the eternal laws of God, which stand good
both for this world and for all worlds for this life and for the
life everlasting.
Yes, my friends, settle in your hearts that the book of Deuteronomy
is meant for you, and for all the nations upon earth, as much as for
the old Jews. That its promises and warnings are to you and to your
children as surely as they were to the old Jews. Ay, that they are
meant for every nation that is, or ever was, or ever will be upon
earth. If you would prosper on the earth, fear God and keep his
commandments; and know and consider it in your heart that the Lord
Jesus Christ he is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath:
there is none else.
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