[677] Ezek. xvi. 60.

[678] Ezek. i. 28.

[679] Rev. iv. 3.

[680] Rev. v. 9, 10.

[681] Rev. xi. 3.

[682] Rev. x. 1.

[683] Jer. iii. 23.

[684] Gen. xvii. 10-14.

[685] Rom. iv. 11.

[686] Exod. xii. 48.

[687] Deut. iv. 7, 8.

[688] Exod. xxiii. 17.

[689] Exod. xxiii. 32.

[690] Josh. v. 2, 3, 9.

[691] Col. ii. 11-13.

[692] Rom. iv. 11.

[693] Mat. xxviii. 19.

[694] Acts ii. 38.

[695] Gal. iii. 26-29.

[696] 1 Pet. iii. 21.

[697] Joel ii. 28, 29.

[698] Is. xliv. 3-5.

[699] Exod. xxxi. 13, 16.

[700] Deut. xxvi. 18.

[701] Is. lviii. 13, 14.

[702] Neh. x. 29-31.

[703] Ezek. xxii. 8.

[704] Ezek. xx. 40, 41, 37.

[705] Jer. xvii. 24-27.

[706] Exod. xix. 5, 6.

[707] Is. lxi. 6.

[708] 1 Pet. ii. 5, 9.

[709] Rev. i. 5, 6.

[710] Exod. xiii. 12, 16.

[711] Num. xxv. 12.

[712] Deut. xxxiii. 9-11.

[713] Hos. iv. 6.

[714] Ps. cii. 28.

[715] Jer. iii. 15.

[716] Mal. ii. 7.

[717] Ezek. xliv. 15.

[718] Mal. i. 14.

[719] Heb. vii. 21.

[720] Ezek. xviii. 31.

[721] Deut. x. 16, 20.

[722] Ezek. xliv. 7.

[723] Jer. ix. 26.

[724] Rom. ii. 29.

[725] 2 Chron. xv. 12.

[726] 1 Kings xv. 14.

[727] 2 Chron. xxx. 12.

[728] Jer. xxxii. 40.

[729] Is. viii. 18.

[730] Heb. ii. 13.

[731] Luke ii. 28-32.

[732] Zech. ix. 11.

[733] Heb. xiii. 20, 21.

[734] Rev. v. 9.

[735] Gal. iii. 16.

[736] Rom. viii. 32.

[737] Phil. iv. 13.

[738] Amos v. 4, 5.

[739] Is. xi. 10, 12.

[740] Ps. cv. 4, 6-8.

[741] Is. xlv. 19.

[742] Is. xlix. 6, 8.

CHAPTER XII.

COVENANTING PERFORMED IN FORMER AGES WITH APPROBATION FROM ABOVE.

That the Lord gave special token of his approbation of the exercise of
Covenanting, it belongs to this place to show. His approval of the duty
was seen when he unfolded the promises of the Everlasting Covenant to
his people, while they endeavoured to perform it; and his approval
thereof is continually seen in his fulfilment to them of these promises.
The special manifestations of his regard, made to them while attending
to the service before him, belonged to one or other, or both, of those
exhibitions of his acceptance of them in the discharge of the duty. They
afford peculiar illustrations, brought out by Him in a wondrous
providence, of the important truths concerning his Covenant, which all
his other dispensations to his people also present.

First. He approved of engagements ma