The Promise to Backsliding Israel

This evening, in a sermon seeking to apply the gospel truths signified and sealed in the Supper, we hear of God's promise to backsliding Israel. The promise, in remarkable words, is not only of salvation. It is of new covenant salvation. For this we have a quote from John Owen: "Secondly, the proper counsel and intention of God in sending his Son into the world to die was, that thereby he might confirm and ratify the new covenant to his elect, and purchase for them all the good things which are contained in the tenure of that covenant, - to wit, grace and glory; that by his death he might bring many (yet some certain) children to glory, obtaining for them that were given unto him by his Father (that is, his whole church) reconciliation with God, remission of sins, faith, righteousness, sanctification, and life eternal."