dishonoured, provided the sinner can escape with impunity. They who vow and swear falsely, or who perform not their oath, are exposed to an appalling curse; but dreadful also is the condemnation that hangs over those who vow not, because they do not desire to pay. All who love the Lord, desire to show to the utmost that they delight to honour him. In order to direct and encourage them to do so, he has vouchsafed the institutions of his house; and among them, the exercise of Covenanting, as enjoined on all by his high authority, and engaging the observance of his people, stands acknowledged an Ordinance of God. FOOTNOTES: [171] Ps. cxi. 9. [172] Ps. xcv. 3, 6, 7. [173] Deut. x. 14, 17, 20. [174] Ps. xiv. 10, 11. [175] Mat. x. 32, 33. See also v. 25. [176] Rom. iv. 9, 10, 11. [177] 1 Chron. xvi. 13. [178] 2 Cor. viii. 5. [179] 1 Thess. i. 9. [180] Ps. cxvi. 16. [181] Rev. xvii. 14. [182] Isa. lv. 3, 4. [183] Ps. v. 2. [184] 1 Chron. xxix. 24. Literally, _gave the hand under_. [185] Jer. vii. 23. [186] Ps. xxxi. 14. [187] Exod. iii. 12. [188] 2 Chron. xxx. 8. [189] Rom, xii. 1. [190] Rev. xv. 3. [191] Col. i. 18. [192] Mat. xiii. 8-10. [193] Ezek. xxxvii. 22. [194] Ezek. xxxvii. 25. [195] Jos. xxiv. 14-23. [196] 1 Cor. x. 31. [197] Ps. xxii. 23-25. [198] Jer. ii. 31. [199] Exod. xxiii. 33. [200] 2 Cor. vi. 14-18. [201] Deut. xxiii. 22. [202] Eccles. v. 5. [203] Deut. vi. 13. [204] Deut. x. 20. [205] Jer. iv. 2. [206] John xxi. 17. [207] Mat. v. 34-37. [208] Mat. xxiii. 18-22. [209] מעז, a rad. עזז, _firmus fuit_. There is a striking connection between the import of this word, and that of אל,--that name of God, which literally means _robur_, strength, and from which comes אלה, _an oath_. [210] Is. xxvii. 5. [211] 1 Chron. xvi. 15. [212] Jer. xi. 9-11. [213] Jer. xi. 3, 4. [214] Zeph. i. 4, 6. [215] Is. xliii. 10. [216] See the Rev. Dr. William Symington, on "The Mediatorial Dominion of Jesus Christ," chap. vii.--a work of acknowledged high merit, which cannot, at any time, be too extensively known. [217] "Med. Dom." chap. viii. [218] Ps. ii. 10-12. 8. [219] Ps. lxvii. 3, 4. [220] 1 Kings viii. 33, 34. [221] Ps. lxvii. 1, 2. [222] "Med. Dom.," second edition, pp. 294, 295. [223] Ps. lxviii. 11. See margin. [224] 2 Cor. viii. 1-5. [225] Ps. lxxviii. 5, 6. [226] Ps. cxiii. 1-3. [227] "Great Commission," p. 193. CHAPTER IV. COVENANT DUTIES.