s made to salvation."[66]

_To make confession_ is to confess. The form of expression occurs twice
in the English version of the Old Testament, and the passages, according
to what has been shown, describe at once the exercises of confessing
sin, and of Covenanting. And that the former of the passages records the
latter of these exercises, moreover, is manifest; from the expressed
resolution of king Hezekiah, of which that passage recounts the
fulfilment. He said, "Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with
the Lord God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from
us."[67] And the accomplishment was, "And the children of Israel that
were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days
with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praising the Lord
day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the Lord. And Hezekiah
spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of
the Lord: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering
peace-offerings, and making _confession_ to the Lord God of their
fathers."[68] The other passage states the character of an exercise in
which Daniel as an individual engaged, and from its very structure,
independently of the conclusion to which we have otherwise come,
manifests him as taking hold on God's covenant, as well as acknowledging
sin. "I prayed unto the Lord my God, and made my _confession_, and said,
O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to
them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments."[69]

The phrase TO PROFESS, is, when used in connection with godliness or
true religion, in the New Testament, equivalent to that _to Confess_. It
is a translation of one of the verbs ([Greek: omologeo]), which is
rendered also by the latter. To profess either the knowledge of God, or
godliness, or a good profession, or faith, or subjection to the gospel,
corresponds to the act of professing Christ. If performed to God, it is,
according to the import of the expression _confessing to him_, to
Covenant. If performed to men, it is to bear testimony to the truth. If
not represented as performed either to him or to them, it is to be
understood as being, according to their respective characters, performed
to both; and, accordingly, to be interpreted as not merely to testify to
the truth of God before the world, but also to engage in the solemn
exercise of Covenanting. The exercise of Covenanting is acc