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Christ came not to be the Messiah of the Jews, but the Saviour of the world-not to redeem, regenerate, and restore Israel, but to "draw ALL men unto him;" to gather unto him a glorious church, from among all people, and kindreds, and tribes, to receive in short the heathen for his inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth as his possession. In comparison with this glorious result God regards the establishment of the visible church, and of its various Christian institutions and advanced civilization, as but of small account. "It is a light thing," says God to Christ, "that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to festore the preserved of Israel; I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation to the ends of the earth. And in the last day the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow into it.

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