ii. 16.

[56] Zech. xiii. 9--See ver. 2.

[57] Jer. i. 4, 5.

[58] Ps. cvi. 47, 45--See also Ps. xviii. 49.

[59] Rom. xv. 8, 9.

[60] Luke xxii. 5, 6.

[61] Phil. ii. 9-11.

[62] Is. xlv. 23.

[63] Rom. xiv. 11.

[64] Matt. xiv. 7.

[65] Heb. xiii. 15.

[66] Rom. x. 9, 10.

[67] 2 Chron. xxix. 10.

[68] 2 Chron. xxx. 21, 22.

[69] Dan. ix. 4.

[70] 2 Cor. ix. 13.

[71] Titus i. 16.

[72] 1 Tim. ii. 10.

[73] 1 Tim. vi. 12.

[74] Heb. x. 23.

[75] 2 Kings xxiii. 3.

[76] Is. xliv. 8; see v. 6.

[77] Jer. iii. 22, 23.

[78] 2 Sam. xxiii. 5.

[79] John vi. 67, 68.

[80] Jer. ii. 2, 3.

[81] Deut. xxx. 19, 20.

[82] Ps. xvi. 2-4, 5.

[83] John i. 29.

[84] John i. 49.

[85] John xx. 28.

[86] John xxi. 17; see also Deut. vi. 5.

[87] Is. xxvi. 13.

[88] Hosea xiv. 2, 3, 8.

[89] 2 Cor. vi. 16-18.

[90] Ezek. xx. 37, 38.

[91] Is. xliii. 1.

[92] Ps. cxix. 94.

[93] Josh. xxiv. 14.

[94] Ps. cxvi. 16.

[95] Ps. cxix. 43, 44.

[96] Ps. lxi. 4, 5.

[97] 2 Cor. viii. 5.

[98] Rom. iv. 20-22.

[99] Heb. xi. 17.

[100] Rom. ix. 4.

[101] Exod. xxiv. 7.

[102] Josh. xxiv. 24. See also, v. 25.

[103] 2 Chron. xxxiv. 31, 32.

[104] Jer. xxxiv. 8-18; see also Exod. xxi. 2.

[105] 2 Kings xi. 17.

[106] Isa. xliv. 8.

[107] Ps. cxix. 30.

[108] Ps. cxix. 111.

[109] Ps. l. 16.

[110] Ps. cxix. 15, 16.

[111] Deut. xxix. 14, 15.

[112] Deut. xxx. 19.

[113] Exod. xx. 5, 6.

[114] Ezek. xvi. 59.

[115] Gen. xxi. 27, 28, 30, 31. See Gesen. Lex.

CHAPTER II.

MANNER OF COVENANTING.

Previous to an examination of the manner of engaging in the exercise of
Covenanting, the consideration of God's procedure towards his people
while performing the service seems to claim regard. Of the manner in
which the great Supreme as God acts, as well as of Himself, our
knowledge is limited. Yet though even of the effects on creatures of His
doings we know little, we have reason to rejoice that, in His word He
has informed us, and in His providence illustrated by that word, he has
given us to see that He does act in wondrous condescension to his
saints. Being an infinite, glorious Spirit, He does not perform the
deeds of men clothed with flesh and blood, but being the upholder of all
things, and the glorious fountain of all the means of operation which
men employ, with them He can and does hold communication. In the
ordinances of His grace He has ma