es
to lead the sinner to obedience; and his purposes revealed illustrate
the import of his law. Both consist with his nature. What in his
providence accords with both, at once acknowledges the high claim which
he has upon the willing exertions of men to serve him, and his right to
appoint, independently of a specified statute, what shall be carried
into effect. The law of God is the rule according to which men act; and
that is illustrated by his purposes revealed. His purpose is the rule
according to which he acts, and that is consistent with his law.
Accompanied by the sanction of both, Covenanting is revealed; and not
less than as dictated in his law, it appears, as according to his
purpose, an Ordinance of God.

FOOTNOTES:

[479] Ps. xcv. 3-7.

[480] Is. xlv. 16-18.

[481] Prov. viii. 22, 23. 27-31.

[482] Ps. xxxvii. 11.

[483] Job v. 19-24.

[484] 2 Chron. xxxiii. 8.

[485] Hos. ii. 16-23.

[486] Jer. v. 22.

[487] Ps. lxxviii. 5.

[488] 2 Sam. xxiii. 5.

[489] Gen. ix. 17.

[490] Job xxii. 28.

[491] Prov. xix. 21.

[492] Is. xxviii. 15, 16, 17, 18, 29.

[493] Is. xiv. 24.

[494] Ps. cxi. 9.

[495] Ps. cxxxiii. 3.

[496] Ps. lxviii. 28.

[497] Ps. xxxiii. 8, 9, 11, 12.

[498] Ps. cxix. 152.

[499] Jer. xxxiii. 20, 21, 25. 26.

[500] Job xxviii. 12, 23, 26-28.

[501] Deut. vi. 13.

[502] Is. xliii. 6, 7. 21.

[503] Is. xliv. 21.

[504] Is. xxxvii. 26.

[505] Jer. xxxiii.

[506] Jer. xxxiii. 2.

[507] Is. xliv. 2, 5.

[508] Rom. ix. 20-24.

[509] Is. xxix. 16.

[510] Is. xlv. 9.

[511] Is. xxix. 23.

[512] Hos. ii. 16.

[513] Rom. ix. 25, 26.

[514] Jer. l. 4, 5.

[515] Is. x. 20, 21.

[516] Rom. ix. 27.

[517] Is. i. 9; Rom. ix. 29.

[518] Is. xliv. 7.

[519] Is. xlvii. 6.

[520] Is. xliv. 5.

[521] Is. xxiv. 4, 6, 23.

[522] 1 Pet. ii. 7, 8, 5, 6, 9, 10.

[523] Rev. xxi. 27.

[524] Rev. xiii. 8.

[525] Jer. ii. 2, 3.

[526] Is. iv. 3.

[527] Heb. xii. 23, 24, 28.

[528] Deut. vii. 6.

[529] Deut. vi. 13, 14; see also Ezek. xx. 5-7.

[530] Rom. xi. 2-5.

[531] 1 Kings xix. 10.

[532] Deut. vii. 7, 8.

[533] Rom. xi. 7.

[534] Is. xlii. 6.

[535] Acts xiii. 45-48.

[536] Is. xlv. 4; see also Is. xli. 8, 9; and Ps. cv. 6.

[537] Eph. ii. 10, 11-13.

[538] 1 Pet. i. 2.

[539] Is. xliii. 10.

[540] Rom. ix. 11.

[541] Acts ii. 38, 39.

[542] Gal. iii. 8, 9.

[543] Rom. xi. 25-29.

[544] Heb. ix. 15.

[545] Rom.