iv. 2.

[206] John xxi. 17.

[207] Mat. v. 34-37.

[208] Mat. xxiii. 18-22.

[209] [Hebrew: Ma'oz], a rad. [Hebrew: 'azoz], _firmus fuit_. There is a
striking connection between the import of this word, and that of
[Hebrew: El],--that name of God, which literally means _robur_,
strength, and from which comes [Hebrew: alah], _an oath_.

[210] Is. xxvii. 5.

[211] 1 Chron. xvi. 15.

[212] Jer. xi. 9-11.

[213] Jer. xi. 3, 4.

[214] Zeph. i. 4, 6.

[215] Is. xliii. 10.

[216] See the Rev. Dr. William Symington, on "The Mediatorial Dominion
of Jesus Christ," chap. vii.--a work of acknowledged high merit, which
cannot, at any time, be too extensively known.

[217] "Med. Dom." chap. viii.

[218] Ps. ii. 10-12. 8.

[219] Ps. lxvii. 3, 4.

[220] 1 Kings viii. 33, 34.

[221] Ps. lxvii. 1, 2.

[222] "Med. Dom.," second edition, pp. 294, 295.

[223] Ps. lxviii. 11. See margin.

[224] 2 Cor. viii. 1-5.

[225] Ps. lxxviii. 5, 6.

[226] Ps. cxiii. 1-3.

[227] "Great Commission," p. 193.

CHAPTER IV.

COVENANT DUTIES.

It is here proposed to show, that every incumbent duty ought, in
suitable circumstances, to be engaged to in the exercise of Covenanting.
The law and covenant of God are co-extensive; and what is enjoined in
the one is confirmed in the other. The proposals of that Covenant
include its promises and its duties. The former are made and fulfilled
by its glorious Originator; the latter are enjoined and obligatory on
man. The duties of that Covenant are God's law; and the demands of the
law are all made in the revelation of the Covenant. It was unlawful for
the Israelites to make a Covenant, either with the gods of the heathen,
or for the purpose of rendering to them any service. In like manner, it
is still unlawful for any one to make a Covenant either with or for what
is evil, in such a manner as to give it countenance or support. Of two
words in the Greek language, employed each to denote a Covenant, the one
is applied to the cases where the parties are in some respects on a
level. The other ([Greek: diatheche]) is used where the parties are
represented as in the relations of superiors and inferiors. Its
etymology points out that the conditions of the Covenant were dictated
in some manner; and the use of it shows, that to have been as the
issuing of a command. By it is the principal term for Covenant in the
Old Testament rendered by the Seventy. One example may suffice:--"Will