...they without horror reflect, that they had inhumanly silenced that blessed voice, which cried out, " I am. not sent " but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel?" Could they without the most wounding reflections hear, that He, whose brows they had girt...

...c. 6. f« to refer to tke land of Israel, the application will be more just, as Christ himself says, I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house "f Israel. But the great objection made to this version is, that, by this division of the sentence,...

...dismiss her ; " for she crieth after us ;" cries with an earnestness that speaks distress. But he said, " I am not sent, but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." To the Jews I am first sent : Why do you ask me to shew mercy to that gentile ? One would...

...seduce * God's servants, REPENT:' and thus, when Christ went abroad preaching, his doctrine was, ' I am not sent but to the lost sheep of ' the house of Israel.' But while sovereign mercy is thus sovereign and free, it becomes those ' who have tasted...

...Paul, Rom. xv. 8. a minister of the circumcision ; and, in consistency >vilh this, he. himself says, " I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." Matt. xv. 24. As one of the discriminating features of the evangelical dispensation, is...

...therefore chose all his ministers from that people, perambulated and took possession of Canaan, declared, " I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel," and in the commission given to his ministers to set up the kingdom 'of heaven upon earth,...

...apostles themselves. Christ himself did not preach to the Gentiles, and the reason is assigned ; « I am not' sent but to the lost sheep of the House of Israel." Undoubtedly he wished the conversion of the Gentiles, but by this conformity to his Father's...

...approaching, besought him, saying, "Send her away, for she crieth after us." 24 Then he answering, said, "I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." 25 Then she came and did him obeisance, saying, " Sir, help me." 26 But he answering said,...

...over all, God " blessed for evermore." P. 37. 1. 13. ' I am sent only to the house of ' Israel,' &c. " I am not sent, but to the lost " sheep of the house of Israel." These are our Lord's words in the passage referred to.2 His personal ministry, and his...

...was concealed from the rest. But who can tell whether that silence or this answer be more grievous ? "I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." What is this answer, but a defence of that silence and seeming neglect? While he said nothing,...