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Fortify freecol9/21/2023 ![]() As an engagement upon them to be to him an obedient people, in consideration of what he had done for them. As an encouragement to them to believe that God would indeed be to them a God, for he would not have done so much for them if he had not designed more, to which all he had hitherto done was but a preface (as it were) or introduction nay, he had shown himself a God in what he had hitherto done for them, which might raise their expectations of something great and answering the vast extent and compass of that pregnant promise, that God would be to them a God. It is usual for indentures to begin with a recital this does so, with a rehearsal of the great things God had done for them, 1. But the far greater part were a new generation, and therefore the covenant must be made afresh with them, for it is fit that the covenant should be renewed to the children of the covenant. Note, Those that have solemnly covenanted with God should take all opportunities to do it again, as those that like their choice too well to change. It is probable that some now living, though not of age to be mustered, were of age to consent for themselves to the covenant made at Horeb, and yet it is here renewed. This is said to be besides the covenant made in Horeb for, though the covenant was the same, yet it was a new promulgation and ratification of it. ![]() It does not lie in the power of ministers to fix the terms of the covenant they are only to dispense the seals of it. Moses himself, though king in Jeshurun, could not make the covenant any otherwise than as God gave him instructions. ![]() The covenant formerly made is here renewed, and Moses, who was before, is still, the mediator of it ( v. Now that Moses had largely repeated the commands which the people were to observe as their part of the covenant, and the promises and threatenings which God would make good (according as they behaved themselves) as part of the covenant, the whole is here summed up in a federal transaction. 9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do. 7 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them: 8 And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh. 6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the Lord your God. 5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot. 2 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land 3 The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles: 4 Yet the Lord hath not given you a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day. Mercies Called to Remembrance (1451 B.C.)ฤก These are the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb. The conclusion of this treaty, with a distinction between things secret and things revealed, ver 29. A most solemn and dreadful denunciation of the wrath of God against such persons as promise themselves peace in a sinful way, ver 18-28. An intimation of the great design of this covenant against idolatry, in a parenthesis, ver 16, 17. A specification of the persons taken into the covenant, ver 10, 11, 14, 15. An abstract of the covenant itself, ver 12, 13. A solemn charge to them to keep the covenant, ver 9. ![]() A recital of God's dealings with them, in order to the bringing of them into this covenant, ver 2-8. The first words of this chapter are the contents of it, "These are the words of the covenant" ( ver 1), that is, these that follow.
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