And eternal life. This consummation unspeakable is indissolubly connected with the purpose of God, and the believer's exercises of adhering to the Covenant. On the promise of eternal life the heirs of it lay hold in Covenanting; and to this they were chosen. They cleave to the covenant as an Everlasting Covenant, well ordered in all things and sure: that is all their salvation, and all their desire. And to that final salvation they were chosen. "Whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified."[599] Who can describe that life? and who can sufficiently tell of the grace of Him who hath secured it to men? And who should not feel amazed at the backwardness of sinners to prepare for it--so free and beneficently offered? Truly the glory of God is great in his salvation! The redeemed through eternity will find the glad work of declaring that glory undone. Would that sinners now, by accepting of the great salvation, would begin here, and finally be prepared to celebrate with all others of their race redeemed to God, that glory! In conclusion. As in every case the purposes of God harmonize with his precepts, so the manifestation of those in reference to the keeping his Covenant, unites with express injunctions of his law in urging to discharge that duty. The law of God conspires with his revealed purposes to lead the sinner to obedience; and his purposes revealed illustrate the import of his law. Both consist with his nature. What in his providence accords with both, at once acknowledges the high claim which he has upon the willing exertions of men to serve him, and his right to appoint, independently of a specified statute, what shall be carried into effect. The law of God is the rule according to which men act; and that is illustrated by his purposes revealed. His purpose is the rule according to which he acts, and that is consistent with his law. Accompanied by the sanction of both, Covenanting is revealed; and not less than as dictated in his law, it appears, as according to his purpose, an Ordinance of God. FOOTNOTES: [479] Ps. xcv. 3-7. [480] Is. xlv. 16-18. [481] Prov. viii. 22, 23. 27-31. [482] Ps. xxxvii. 11. [483] Job v. 19-24. [484] 2 Chron. xxxiii. 8. [485] Hos. ii. 16-23. [486] Jer. v. 22. [487] Ps. lxxviii. 5. [488] 2 Sam. xxiii. 5. [489] Gen. ix. 17. [490] Job xxii. 28. [491] Prov. xix. 21. [492] Is. xxviii. 15, 16, 17, 18, 29. [493] Is. xiv. 24. [494] Ps. cxi. 9. [495] Ps. cxxxiii. 3. [496] Ps. lxviii. 28. [497] Ps. xxxiii. 8, 9, 11, 12. [498] Ps. cxix. 152. [499] Jer. xxxiii. 20, 21, 25. 26. [500] Job xxviii. 12, 23, 26-28. [501] Deut. vi. 13. [502] Is. xliii. 6, 7. 21. [503] Is. xliv. 21. [504] Is. xxxvii. 26. [505] Jer. xxxiii. [506] Jer. xxxiii. 2. [507] Is. xliv. 2, 5. [508] Rom. ix. 20-24. [509] Is. xxix. 16. [510] Is. xlv. 9. [511] Is. xxix. 23. [512] Hos. ii. 16. [513] Rom. ix. 25, 26.