On the Old and New Covenants
by David Russell (9781150580338)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1843 Original Publisher: s.n. Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SECTION III. OF THE COVENANT OF GOD, AS REVEALED TO NOAH. When God declared his intention of bringing a flood upon the world, he said to Noah: " But with thee will I establish my covenant," Gen. vi. 18. And after the flood, he again said: " And I, behold I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you," Gen. ix. 8, 9. We have already seen, that in every age the covenant of God has been celebrated in connection with sacrifice. Hence, Noah after the flood testified his gratitude, and implored the countenance and the favour of God by building an altar, and offering upon it of every clean beast and of every clean fowl, and by these services did he celebrate that covenant, which was his only security against that fearful judgment, of which the deluge was an emblem. That this was no new thing, is evident, from the distinction mentioned between clean and unclean animals, Gen. viii. 20; which distinction, as animal food was not granted to man till afterwards, must have been made in reference to sacrifice; so that from the beginning, directions had been given on this subject. Men were never left to offer what they pleased, any more than to devise for themselves a method of acceptance. As salvation is entirely a matter of favour, so all connected with it is wholly of divine appointment. And in particular, as the gift of the Saviour is the fruit of pure sovereign mercy, and his work isaccording to the wise counsel of Jehovah, it would have been preposterous for men to devise means to prefigure either him or his atonement. The Lord, we are told, " smelled a sweet savour,."..

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