...Close up your treaty with Christ by a solemn covenant with him; engage yourselves to be the Lord's. " One shall say, I am the Lord's ; and another shall...Lord, and surname himself by the name of Israel." Isa. 44 : 5. Here you have two things to do : 1. To give yourselves up to Christ, according to that...

...engagements of his covenant, and put in an humble claim to the important blessing it was intended to convey : One shall say, I am the Lord's ; and another shall...the Lord, and surname himself by the name of Israel. Some very celebrated translators and critics understand the words which we render, Subscribe with his...

...engagements of his covenant, and put in an humble claim to the important blessing it was intended to convey : One shall say, I am the Lord's ; and another shall...the Lord, and surname himself by the name of Israel. Some very celebrated translators and critics understand the words which we render, Subscribe with,...

...anointing them with his own unctuous influences, constrains them to acknowledge the Lord to be their God. " One shall say, I am the Lord's ; " and another shall...Lord, and surname himself by the " name of Israel V Thus God is pleased to acknowledge his people, to call them by name, to bring them near himself,...

...upon thine offspring, and they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses ; one shall say, I am the Lord's, and another shall...another shall subscribe with his hand unto the Lord." As subscribing an instrument whereby they bound themselves to the Lord. This was subscribing and covenanting...

...into covenant with him. I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring. One shall say, I am the Lord's : and another shall...the Lord, and surname himself by the name of Israel. (Isa. xliv. 5.) The same representation is given us by Jeremiah. In those days, and at that time, saith...

...will poar my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring. And what shall come on it ? One shall say, I am the Lord's : and another shall...the Lord, and surname himself by the name of Israel. How explicit are these words, One shall say, I am the Lord's ! It is not, that they shall only be the...

...offspring. And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the watercourses. One shall s:iy I am the Lord's: and another shall call himself by...Lord, and surname himself by the name of Israel." And thus baptism is a sign and seal of the covenant of grace, and of the washing away of sins by the...

...property, and to be wholly at his service. This was foretold con. ceruing these days, Isaiah xliv. 5. " One shall say, I am the Lord's ; and another shall...Jacob ; and another shall subscribe with his hand to the Lord, and surname himself by the name of Israel." Ye cannot surely deny this, ye are conscious...

...that some of his elect shall alter their names ; yea, both surnames and Christian; as it is written, " One shall say, I am the Lord's; and another shall...Lord, and surname himself by the name of Israel," Isa. xliv. 5. Thus my reader sees that I have leave from God to go by the name of Jacob, if I please;...