2. The Law hath the real properties of a Covenant, which are the mutual consent and stipulation on both sides. You may see a full relation of this in Exod. 24.3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.1 And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, all the words which the Lord hath said will we do: and Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel? and he sent young men of the Children of Israel, which offered burnt-offerings, and sacrificed peace-offerings of oxen unto the Lord; and Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins, and half of the blood be sprinkled on the Altar, and he took the book of the Covenant, and read in the audience of the people, and they said, all that the Lord hath said, will we do, and be obedient; and Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the Covenant which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words. This very passage is related in the Epistle to the Hebrews,2 when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people, according to the Law, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet-wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, saying, this is the blood of the Testament, (or Covenant) which God hath enjoined unto you. In the words you may observe these properties of a Covenant? 1. That God on his part expresseth his consent and willingness to be their God: this will appear in the preface of the Law, of which hereafter. 2. That the people on their part give their full consents, and ready willingness to be his servants. Both these appear in that, 1. Moses writes down the Covenant Covenant-wise. 2. He Confirms the Covenant by outward signs, as by the blood of Calves and Goats; whereof one half he puts in basins, to sprinkle it on the people; and the other half of the blood he sprinkles on the Altar; that sprinkling on the people signified their voluntary Covenanting with God, and the blood sprinkled on the Altar signified Gods entering into Covenant with the people. Thus we have real Covenanting when the Law is given.
2. The Law hath the real properties of a Covenant, which are the mutual consent and stipulation on both sides. You may see a full relation of this in Exod. 24.3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.1 And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, all the words which the Lord hath said will we do: and Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel? and he sent young men of the Children of Israel, which offered burnt-offerings, and sacrificed peace-offerings of oxen unto the Lord; and Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons, and half of the blood be sprinkled on the Altar, and he took the book of the Covenant, and read in the audience of the people, and they said, all that the Lord hath said, will we do, and be obedient; and Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the Covenant which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words. This very passage is related in the Epistle to the Hebrews,2 when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people, according to the Law, he took the blood of calves and goates, with water and scarlet-wooll, and hissop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, saying, this is the blood of the Testament, (or Covenant) which God hath enjoyned unto you. In the words you may observe these properties of a Covenant? 1. That God on his part expresseth his consent and willingness to be their God: this will appear in the preface of the Law, of which hereafter. 2. That the people on their part give their full consents, and ready willingness to be his servants. Both these appear in that, 1. Moses writes down the Covenant Covenant-wise. 2. He Confirms the Covenant by outward signs, as by the blood of Calves and Goats; whereof one half he puts in basons, to sprinkle it on the people; and the other half of the blood he sprinkles on the Altar; that sprinkling on the people signified their voluntary Covenanting with God, and the blood sprinkled on the Altar signified Gods entering into Covenant with the people. Thus we have reall Covenanting when the Law is given.
- 1••od. 24 3, 4, 6, 7, 8.
- 2•eb. 9.19, 20
