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The great and remarkable Promise, so often made to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and more than once mentioned by the Apostles, will next be considered.

The Apostle Peter mentions this Promise as referring to the days of the gospel, "Ye are the children of the Prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all kindreds of the earth be blessed". The Apostle Paul speaks of this Promise as referring to Christ, and all who believe in him, making him to be the promised seed, and believers in him to be those who are blessed in him exclusively, in whom the promised good takes place. "So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham - s- Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, 'And to seeds', as of many, but as of one, 'And to thy seed', which is Christ."

This prediction and Promise is very express and extensive; that all the families, kindreds and nations of the earth should be blessed in Christ by their becoming believers in him. This has never yet taken place and cannot be fulfilled unless christianity and the Kingdom of Christ shall take place and prevail in the world to a vastly higher degree, and more extensively and universally, than has yet come to pass; and all nations, all the inhabitants of the earth, shall become believers in him, agreeable to a great number of other prophecies.

The reign of Christ on earth, with his church and people, and the happiness and glory of the time, is a subject much mentioned, predicted and celebrated in the book of Psalms. To mention all that is there spoken with reference to that happy time would be to transcribe a great part of that book. They abundantly prove that the kingdom of Christ is to prevail and flourish in this world as it has never yet done.

In the second Psalm it is predicted and promised that the Son of God shall inherit and possess all nations, to the ends of the earth... 121