...false system has ever dared to affect. " Ye have seen," said God to his pilgrimpeople, " what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself." (Exod. xix. 4.) In the Gospel-church still higher wonders are wrought, by the same " arm of the Lord...

...thus shall thou say to the house ofJacobr " and tell the children of Israel : Ye have seen what I did unto the " Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles'...myself; now, therefore, if ye will obey my voice, and " keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar people unto me, " above all people, for all the...

...8. ' 1 John, ii. 14. The protection which the Deity promised to the Israelites, was conditional: " If ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people ; and ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests,...

...seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagle's wings, and brought you unto myself: if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people : and ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests,...

...will walk in my law, or no, &c. How long refuse ye to keep my commandments ? &c.— Exod. xvi. 4. 28. Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me, above all people, &c. And all the people answered together,...

...to them, and been transgressed, seems plain to us, from the following verses of the xixth chapter. " Now, therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me, above all people, for all the earth is mine. And ye shall...

...will walk in my law, or no, &c. How long refuse ye to keep my commandments ? &c.— Exod. xvi. 4. 28. Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me, above all people, &c. And all the people answered together,...

...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...

...mere external obedience by the Sinai covenant, that the grand preliminary to that covenant was this : If ye will obey my voice INDEED, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people. And what is meant by obeying bis voice indeed,...

...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,...