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Then; when that new covenant, made and confirmed, shall operate and take effect.
Remember; consider and lay to heart, repent of, mourn for, loathe and abhor, and turn from all thy wicked ways, all thy evil practices and doings.
Be ashamed; though whilst thou wast an adulteress, and false to thy Husband, thou didst not blush, now thou shalt with a deep shame remember and detest thy lewdness.
Receive; admit into church communion, own them as members of the church of God.
Thy sisters; the Gentiles, now strangers, but then sisters.
Thine elder; or those that are greater and mightier than thou, or that by their power, wealth, and honour are as much above thee as the elder children are above the younger.
Thy younger; thy lesser or meaner sister.
I will give them unto thee; they shall be to thee as a gift bestowed in love.
For daughters: as daughters in duty hearken to and obey, so shall the Gentiles brought into the church hearken to the word of God, which sounded out from the Jews from Jerusalem.
By thy covenant; not by that old covenant which was violated, not by external ceremonies, which were a great part of the first covenant, but by that covenant which writes the law in the heart, and puts the fear of God into the inward parts.