Wesley Corpus

And these themselves are sometimes termed “the covenant,” some times “the book of the covenant.” So, after God had made an end of speaking to the people, it is said, “And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the morning,--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 Moses took the blood,” (of the burnt-offering,) “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.” (xxiv. 4, &c.) After the people had broken this covenant by worshipping the golden calf, God renews it, Exodus xxxiv., where we read, “And the Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words: For after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel--and he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.” (Verses 27, 28.) 66. According to the tenor of this covenant, made to Abraham and his seed, God afterward declares, “If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; then I will establish my covenant with you, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people. But if ye will not hearken unto me, so that ye will not do all my command ments, but that ye break my covenant; I will set my face against you, and I will avenge the quarrel of my covenant. Yet if they shall confess their iniquity, and if their uncircum cised hearts be humbled; then will I remember my covenant. with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember.” (Lev. xxvi. 3, &c.) Consequently the covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, was conditional, as well as that with their posterity. 67. “But is not the faithfulness of God engaged to keep all that now believe from falling away?” I cannot say that.