...of deliverance and fafety. They comprehend the whole argument, both the antecedent and confequent. We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement. As it is evident, that thefe expreffions cannot be literally underftood, they muft be explained according...

...finful agreements may be broken up: there is a fad meeting and agreement we read of, Ifa. xxviii. 15. " We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement." Why, is- r.ot this the cafe of all men by nature ? Yea : but how is this fad and miferable meeting...

...agreement with hell, or the grave, not to hurt them. Therefore the prophet reprefents them as faying, We have made a covenant with death ; and with hell are we at agreement : •when the overflowing fcourge Jhall pafs through, it jhall not come unto us ; for we have made lies (that is what the prophet...

...secure sinners shelter themselves, but which shall be swept away by the overflowing scourge, says ; " Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation." And says the apostle to the Corinthians, " Other...

...secure sinners shelter themselves, but which shall be swept away by the overflowing scourge, says ; " Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a died stone, a precious comer stone, a sure foundation." And says the apostle to the Corinthians,...

...with Mansoul? But fearing lest also this knot should break, he bethinks himself of another, to wit: " We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement." Isa. xxviii. 15. Such men " glory in their shame," and determine to be more and more vile. 7 The margin...

...corn cometb in his season, * ? Hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men ! fays Ifaiah ; because we have said we have made a covenant with, death, and with hell are at agreement, when the overflowing scourge /hall pass through, it Jhall not come unto us ; for we have...

...bringing about, and fully accomplishing his gracious designs towards her. He therefore declares, " Because ye have said, we have made a covenant with...Behold I lay in Zion for a foundation, a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation ; judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness...

...elucidate that passage in Isaiah xxviii. 15. We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are wc at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass...refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves. qd We have cut off a covenant sacrifice, a purification offering with death, and with the grave we...

...God with horror,, being such a flat contradiction to the plainest scriptures, for in them we read, "Therefore, thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner-stone, a sure foundation; and he that believeth shall not make haste," Isa....