ovenant and a
testament; but so was the former. The blood of sacrifice was typical at
once of the blood of the Mediator, and of his death as the great
Testator. The blessings of his purchase in the first ages were, even as
in the last, testamentary. They were not reversionary, but no less by
bequest and no less sure than they had been had he, whose death by
sacrifice was continually pointed out antecedently, really died.

In conclusion, from the whole,

It is manifest, that to represent Covenanting as a mere Jewish thing, is
an error. It was engaged in before the father of the Hebrew race was
called. It was practised when the Levitical economy was on the verge of
dissolution, and attended to in the apostolic age by churches that were
not subjected to its peculiar institutes. It was provided for the
Church, whether existing in Old or New Testament times. It was
independent of the peculiarities of the former dispensations, though it
attracted to itself the performance of their characteristic observances.
It was by Covenanting that the Church was incorporated; by it the Church
has been hitherto kept distinct from the world; and by it, throughout
all time, she will prove herself to be the heir of the Covenant promise
of God, made from eternity, and to be bestowed in time and eternity to
come.

FOOTNOTES:

[365] Heb. xiii. 20.

[366] Ps. xc. 2.

[367] Prov. viii. 23.

[368] Mic. v. 2.

[369] Ps. lxxxix. 3, 28.

[370] Is. liii. 10-12.

[371] Is. xlii. 21.

[372] Rom. v. 15-19. 1 Cor. xv. 47-49.

[373] Is. lix. 21.

[374] Gen. vi. 18; xvii. 7; Lev. xxvi. 9; Ezek. xvi. 62.

[375] Deut. xxviii. 9; xxix. 13.

[376] Is. xlix. 8.

[377] Ps. lxxxix. 4.

[378] Jer. xxx. 20-22.

[379] Ezek. xxxiv. 24; xxxvii. 24, 25.

[380] Ps. xxii. 28.

[381] Heb. x. 19-23.

[382] Compare Ps. ii. 8, and Deut. xxxii. 9.

[383] Is. viii. 18, and Heb. ii. 13.

[384] Jer. iii. 19.

[385] Ps. xxii. 30.

[386] Eph. i. 4.

[387] Jer. xxxi. 3.

[388] John xv. 5.

[389] Heb. xiii. 15.

[390] 2 Thess. ii. 13.

[391] Is. xxviii. 15-18, and 1 Pet. ii. 6-10.

[392] Phil. ii. 11.

[393] Col. ii. 6, 7.

[394] Ps. viii. 2, and Matt. xxi. 16.

[395] Ps. xcvi. 6.

[396] Is. xlvi. 13.

[397] Rom. iv. 9, 10, 11.

[398] Gal. iii. 14, 15.

[399] Gal. iii 17.

[400] Compare Heb. xiii. 20, and Is. liii. 10-12.

[401] See Is. xxi. 2; xxix. 11. In the latter of these passages it may
mean both a revelation and a co