It was a witness that God who made the world is the
friend and preserver of man; that His promises are like the
everlasting sunshine which is above the clouds, without spot or
fading, without variableness or shadow of turning.
And do you fancy, my friends, that the new covenant, the covenant
which God made with all mankind in the blood of His only-begotten
Son, is narrower or weaker than the covenant which He made with Noah,
Abraham, and David? He asked no conditions from them. Do you think
He asks them from us? He called them by free grace. Do you think He
calls us by anything less? He swore by Himself to them. How much
more has He sworn by Himself to us? He who was born, and died, and
rose again for us, who now sits at the right hand of the Father, very
Man of the substance of a human mother, yet very God of very God
begotten.
His covenants of old stood true and faithful, however disobedient and
unfaithful men might be; as it is written: "I have sworn once for
all by my holiness, that I will not fail David." And those words,
the New Testament declares to us, again and again, are true of the
new covenant, and fulfilled in the Lord Jesus Christ, into whose name
we are baptized. Yes; into whose name we are baptized.
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