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is persecution, which those that will live godly must count upon.
4. None are rejected and cast out from God but those who have first deserved it. Ishmael is
continued in Abraham's family till he becomes a disturbance, grief, and scandal to it.
10 Wherefore she said unto Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and
her son: for the son of this bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, even with Isaac.
Sarah made the motion: Cast out this bond-woman, Ge 21:10. This seems to be spoken in some heat, yet it is quoted (Ga 4:30) as if it had been spoken
by a spirit of prophecy; and it is the sentence passed on all hypocrites and carnal people, though they have a place and a name in the visible church. All that are born after the flesh and not born again, that rest in the law and reject the gospel promise, shall certainly be cast out. It is made to point particularly
at the rejection of the unbelieving Jews, who, though they were the seed of Abraham, yet, because they submitted not to the gospel covenant, were unchurched and disfranchised: and that which, above anything, provoked God to cast them off was their mocking and persecuting the gospel church, God's Isaac, in its infancy, 1Th 2:16. Note, There
are many who are familiarly conversant with the children of God in this world, and yet shall not partake with them in the inheritance of sons. Ishmael might be Isaac's play-fellow and school-fellow, yet not his fellow-heir.