viii. 30.

[546] Is. xlv. 25, 23, 24.

[547] Jer. xxiii. 6-8.

[548] Jer. iv. 2.

[549] Eph. i. 5.

[550] Prov. xxiii. 26.

[551] Exod. iv. 22, 23.

[552] Ps. lxxxix. 3-28.

[553] 2 Sam. vii. 14.

[554] Is. xlv. 4, 23-25, 11.

[555] Hos. xi. 1, 2.

[556] Jer. xxxi. 9; see also ver. 31-37.

[557] Jer. iii. 18, 19.

[558] Jer. iii. 22.

[559] Gal. iii. 26, 29.

[560] 2 Thess. ii. 13.

[561] Exod. xix. 10.

[562] Exod. xxxi. 13.

[563] Zeph. i. 7.

[564] Rom. xv. 15, 16.

[565] Rom. xii. 1.

[566] Heb. xiii. 12, 15, 16.

[567] 1 John v. 10.

[568] Rom. viii. 23.

[569] John xiv. 21, 23.

[570] Ps. xxv. 14.

[571] 1 Thess. i. 4.

[572] Matt. xxv. 34.

[573] Eph. i. 13, 14; see also 2 Cor. i. 22; v. 5.

[574] Phil. i. 29.

[575] Rom. v. 1.

[576] Gal. vi. 15, 16.

[577] Eph. ii. 14.

[578] Rom. xiv. 17.

[579] Ps. lxiii. 11.

[580] Is. lxi. 8-10.

[581] Ps. lxxxvi. 4.

[582] Zech. ii. 10, 11.

[583] 2 Chron. xv. 15.

[584] Is. lvi. 6, 7.

[585] Neh. xii. 43.

[586] Rom. xv. 8, 9, 13.

[587] Is. lxv. 14, 16, 6.

[588] Rom. xi. 5.

[589] 1 Pet. iii. 7.

[590] Mal. iv. 2.

[591] Heb. vi. 17.

[592] 2 Pet. iii. 18.

[593] John xv. 16.

[594] Judg. ii. 1.

[595] Ps. xciv. 14; see also Is. liv. 9, 10.

[596] Jer. xxxii. 40.

[597] John x. 28, 29.

[598] 2 Tim. ii. 19.

[599] Rom. viii. 30.

CHAPTER IX.

COVENANTING SANCTIONED BY THE DIVINE EXAMPLE.

God's procedure when imitable forms a peculiar argument for duty. That
is made known for many reasons; among which must stand this,--that it
may be observed and followed as an example. That, being perfect, is a
safe and necessary pattern to follow. The law of God proclaims what he
wills men as well as angels to do. The purposes of God show what he has
resolved to have accomplished. The constitutions of his moral subjects
intimate that he has provided that his will shall be voluntarily
accomplished by some of them. His own example presents what must be
willingly done. It affords a complete reason for doing what is besides
variously urged. The law of God is his will diffused among his moral
subjects. His revealed purposes are his determinations to be carried
into effect by means, many of which are beyond the sphere of the willing
endeavours of his creatures. The constitutions of his obedient subjects
are an instrumentality worthy of the glorious moral character of Him
who, though independe