Lord’s Day 21, Chapter 3: The Gathering of the Church (3) / Chapter 4: Assurance of Membership (1)

3. The Gathering of the Church (continued) A comparison of the two passages speaks for itself. While the passages from Hosea speaks of the nation of Israel, to which the Lord said Lo Ammi, not my people, and Lo Ruchama, no object of mercy; but which shall be restored, so that the Lord will be merciful to them, and they shall be called the children of the living God; the passage from the Romans quotes this passage in proof of the fact that the Lord fulfilled this promise of the restoration of...