Church," by the Rev. Dr. Mason, late of Wishawtown,--a work presenting a
rich scriptural view of the subject.

[315] Job xxxiv. 17.

[316] 1 Sam. xxii. 8.

[317] Ps. xxxi. 20.

[318] Numb. xxx. 2.

[319] These are, [Hebrew: chavosh, kashor, rakhosh, asor].

[320] Jer. l. 5; see also Is. lvi. 3; and Zech. ii. 11.

[321] Is. xxvii. 5; and lvi. 4-6.

[322] Nehem. ix. 38.

[323] Deut. xxx. 20.

[324] Deut. x. 20.

[325] Jer. xiii. 11; see also ver. 1-10.

[326] Ps. lxiii. 8, 11.

[327] Jer. xi. 6.

[328] Deut. xxix. 9.

[329] Ps. cxxxii. 12.

[330] Deut. xi. 1.

[331] Rev. ii. 25, 26.

[332] Ps. cxix. 111.

[333] Ps. lxxvi. 11.

[334] Eccl. v. 4.

[335] Deut. xxiii. 21.

[336] Lev. xxvii. 1-25.

[337] Lev. xxvii. 28, 29.

[338] Jer. xi. 3, 4; see also v. 10-12; Deut. xxix. 18-21; Jer. xxxiv.
18-20; Ezek. xvii. 18, 19.

[339] Rom. i. 31, 32.

[340] Ps. lxi. 8.

[341] Ps. cxvi. 14.

[342] Ps. cxix. 106.

[343] Jer. ii. 2, 3, 20.

[344] Ps. lxvi. 6.

[345] Heb. iii. 2, 6.

[346] Gen. xxi. 23.

[347] Exod. xiii. 19.

[348] Jos. ix. 15, and 2 Sam. xxi. 1, 2.

[349] Deut. v. 2, 3.

[350] Some of these are, Ps. xlvii. 9; Is. xiii. 16; Luke i. 72-74; Gal.
iii. 7.

[351] Hos. xii. 4.

[352] Acts iii. 25.

[353] Exod. xv. 2.

[354] Ps. cxvi. 16-18.

[355] Gen. xv. 8-12, 17, 18.

[356] Neh. ix. 7, 8.

[357] Gen. xvii. 9.

[358] Jer. xi. 10, 11.

[359] Deut. xxxi. 16, 17.

[360] Ezek. xvii. 18, 19.

[361] Is. xxiv. 5, 6.

[362] 2 Cor. vi. 17, 18.

[363] As one of many passages which show this, see Jer. iv. 12.

[364] Ps. lvi. 12.

CHAPTER VI.

COVENANTING PROVIDED FOR IN THE EVERLASTING COVENANT.

The duty of Covenanting is founded on the law of nature; but it also
stands among the arrangements of Divine mercy made from everlasting. The
promulgation of the law, enjoining it on man in innocence as a duty, was
due to God's necessary dominion over the creatures of his power. The
revelation of it as a service obligatory on men in a state of sin, arose
from his unmerited grace. In the one display, we contemplate the
authority of the righteous moral Governor of the universe; in the other,
we see the claims of that law which cannot be abrogated, put forth along
with manifestations of sovereign good-will to men. Had God dealt with
men according to their iniquities, that law which, in the first of men,
they had violated, would have demanded their final pun