are not less suitable to other circumstances than that is to its own. The vow made at the Lord's table may include the sum of all duty; but where is the evidence that it ought not in other circumstances also to be made? At that holy communion each believer swears individually to a profession of his faith with his brethren, and to specific exercises consistent with his own condition; but that is no reason why the oath to perform certain requirements of God's law should not be explicitly and openly sworn. Apart from the sacramental symbols, the exercise of explicit Covenanting may embody the making of vows to perform every duty, and include every part of religious worship. And as it was attended to under the Old Testament economy, when neither the rite of circumcision nor some other observances of the Levitical dispensation had been instituted, nay, even when that rite after its institution was not being applied, so under the present dispensation it may be engaged in when the seals of the Covenant are or are not dispensed. The magnitude, and variety, and demands of the objects embraced by it, define the times necessary for engaging in it. Changes in providence should lead, and in some measure direct in observing it. It is in certain occurrences in providence, ordinary though they be, that we are presented with the season meet for every other religious act. The morning and evening, and the times of partaking of the necessaries and comforts of life for the nourishment of the body, especially afford opportunities for offering supplication and thanksgiving. Deliverances from afflictions, and support under them when vouchsafed, call for the acknowledgment of the great goodness and tender compassion of God. The suffering of individual and social distress, and the pangs of bereavement, call for the recognition of his holy sovereignty with the deepest humility and resignation; and not less should the changes for evil or good that take place in society, and the obvious necessities that attach to our own spiritual condition, and the wants of our fellow-creatures around us and over the habitable earth, urge us to those exercises of special solemn Covenanting with God, which are peculiarly fitted to meet their demands. FOOTNOTES: [116] Isa. liv. 9. [117] Heb. vi. 13, 14. [118] Ps. cv. 9. [119] Ezek. xx. 5. [120] Deut. xxxiii. 2. [121] Ps. cxxxii. 11. [122] Deut. xxix. 12. [123] Deut. xxvi. 17, 18. [124] Deut. xxix. 13. [125] Deut. xxix. 12-15. [126] Is. lvi. 6, 7. [127] Prov. xx. 25. [128] Heb. xi. 6. [129] Is. xix. 21. [130] Jer. xxxi. 33, 34. [131] 2 Chron. xv. 15. [132] Jer. xxiv. 7. [133] Josh. xxiv. 15-17. [134] 1 Kings viii. 31, 32. [135] Ps. cxix. 106. [136] Ps. xxiv. 4. [137] 1 Chron. xii. 18. [138] Jer. xxxiv. 18-20. [139] Gen. xv. 8-18. [140] Gen. ix. 11.-viii. 20. [141] 2 Sam. v. 3. [142] 2 Kings xi. 4. [143] Josh. ix. 6, 7. [144] Exod. xxiii. 32. [145] Ezra x. 3. [146] 2 Chron. vii. 18. [147] Heb. x. 19-23.