...disobedience, while they " had been borne as on eagles' wings." " Now, therefore," said Jehovah, " if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my Covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure to me, above all people — for all the earth is mine." " All that the Lord commands we will do," was...

...is not presumption, nor will our expectations from them be cut off. The promise made to Israel was, If ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar tfeasure unto me above all people. It is thus that duty and privilege are connected, and the latter,...

...Sinai covenant, that the grand preliminary to that covenant was this : If ye will obey my voice INBEED, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people. And what is mean^ by obeying his voice indeed, is sufficiently evident, by the subsequent addresses...

...••Walk before me, and be thou perfect; Gen. xvii. 1. At iSinai the Lord said unto the Israelites, " If ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant,...be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people." And the people did engage thus to act ; for they replied, " All hat the Lord hath spoken we will do...

...thy people pass over, 0 LORD, till the people pass over, u/iir/i thou hast purchased, Kxod. xv. 16. Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and...covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me aburé all people ; for all the earth is mine. And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and ai...

...or Israelites as a Aoiy people to Jehovah, and a kingdom of priests, for dius Moses is directed to tell the children of Israel, Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles1 wings, and brought you unto myself. Now therefore tf ye willfiear my voice indeed,...

...promises to such a distrustful and stubborn generation. " And the Lord said unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children...what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles'wings, and brought you unto myself. Now, therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep...

...the retreat of the children of Israel from the dragon of Egypt; ' Ye have seen,' says God to Moses, ' what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you to myself,' Kxocl. xix. 4. The figure, in allusion to the eagle carrying its young upon its wings,...

...determined by the body of written laws." — Heb. Autiipilties, pp. 10, 11. 8vo. Win. 1608. VOL. I. C the children of Israel : " Ye have seen what I did...brought you unto myself. Now, therefore, if ye will hear my voice indeed) and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all...

...them from the rest of the world by rites and ordinances of His own appointment, he declared to them, " Now, therefore, if ye will obey, my voice indeed,...be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people,'" ' In allusion to this selection of the Israelites, the apostle Paul here denominates those who are...