That God’s method of intercourse with men has ever been in the form of a covenant. Tayler Lewes says: “There is no religion without this idea of covenant with a personal God, and therefore all such views as those of Comte, Mill, and Spencer are, for all moral and religious purposes, wholly atheistical.”
II. That this covenant method of intercourse with men displays the sovereign will and free grace of God (Eph_1:5).
III. That this covenant method of intercourse puts man under deep obligation to God.
1. They are chosen to great favours.
2. They should render thanks for these favours.
IV. The obligations of men to God for his covenant mercies can never cease.
1. It is of Divine authority.
2. It is confirmed from time to time.
3. It is “an everlasting covenant” (1Ch_16:17), “made with man as an immortal being, and in itself an evidence of his designed immortality.” (J. Wolfendale.)
