...promise to bring them by his providence into tfie land, was always conditional. See Exod. xix. 5. " Now, therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, -then ye shall be a peculiar people." Deut. xi. 27, 28. " A blessing if ye obey the commandments of the Lord your God. And a curse...

...Sinai. And Moses went up unto God ; and the Lord called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shall thou. say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel, Ye have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself*. Now therefore,...

...editioa of the Covenant of Circumcision. •S. It began with a conditional particle IF. Ex. 19, £,' "Now therefore IF ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar people unto me above all people, for all the earth ie mine." It was then CONDITIONAL. The people all...

...glory, which no false system has ever dared to affect. " Ye have seen," said God to his pilgrimpeople, " what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself." (Exod. xix. 4.) In the Gospel-church still higher wonders are wrought, by the same " arm of the Lord...

...the Lord called unto him out of the " mountain, saying, thus shall thou say to the house ofJacobr " and tell the children of Israel : Ye have seen what...myself; now, therefore, if ye will obey my voice, and " keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar people unto me, " above all people, for all the...

...8. ' 1 John, ii. 14. The protection which the Deity promised to the Israelites, was conditional: " If ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant,...shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people ; and ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation*" " I send an angel before thee...

...mountain. t Pope. It was upon this mount, that the Lord called unto Moses, saying, thus shrill thbu say to the house of Jacob, and tell the Children of Israel; ye have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagle's wings, and brought you unto myself: if ye will obey...

...will walk in my law, or no, &c. How long refuse ye to keep my commandments ? &c.— Exod. xvi. 4. 28. Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and...be a peculiar treasure unto me, above all people, &c. And all the people answered together, and said, All that the Lord hath spoken, we will do. —...

...will walk in my law, or no, &c. How long refuse ye to keep my commandments ? &c.— Exod. xvi. 4. 28. Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and...be a peculiar treasure unto me, above all people, &c. And all the people answered together, and said, All that the Lord hath spoken, we will do. —...

...mere external obedience by the Sinai covenant, that the grand preliminary to that covenant was this : If ye will obey my voice INDEED, and keep my covenant,...shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people. And what is meant by obeying bis voice indeed, is sufficiently evident, by the subsequent addresses...