confirmation, 55
Oath essential to a Covenant with
God, 55

CHAPTER II.
MANNER OF COVENANTING.

Preliminaries, 57
Intelligently, 61
Cordially, 62
Deliberately, 63
Sincerely, 63
In the first ages by sacrifice, 64
Phrase considered, 64
What intended by the bisection of
the victim, 67
Swearing symbolized by sacrifice, 67
Explicit proof, 69
Covenants ratified by blood of
sacrifice, 70
In all ages by faith, 71
Devotionally, 73
In solemn assemblies, 73
A holy exercise, 74
Should be performed with godly
fear and reverence, 74
With confession of sin, 75
Vow made in prayer, 76
Sometimes with the living voice, 77
Sometimes by subscription, 77
Covenanting a distinct exercise, 78
Though entering into other duties,
yet by itself not unnecessary, 79

CHAPTER III.
COVENANTING A DUTY.

According to the will of God as
King and Lord, 83
Obedience to Christ as possessed of
all power in heaven and in earth, 83
Believers engage in it as under law
to Christ, 84
Covenanting in an ecclesiastical
capacity, obedience, 86
Covenanting in an ecclesiastical and
in a national capacity, obedience, 88
Commanded in the Moral Law, 92
In the first three precepts of the
decalogue, 92
In statutes that illustrate these, 94
commands to glorify God, 94
to worship God, 95
enjoining faith, 96
forbidding federal transactions
with what is evil, 96
Enjoining the vowing of the vow, 98
Explanation of Deut. xxiii. 22, 100
of Eccles. v. 5, 102
inculcating the swearing of
the oath, 103
The duty of swearing the oath
not abrogated, 104
enjoining the exercise in all
its parts, 106
The exercise inculcated in
threatenings of Divine judgment
against such as disregard it, 106
Personal Covenan