of works, than so help me God, in the conclusion of oaths, renders every oath a covenant of works. Notwithstanding this sanction annexed to the Israe∣lites covenants of duty with God, they might well stand stedfast in the covenant of grace, Lev. xxvi. Deut. xxvii,—xxx. 1 Kings ix. In this world, the Law, as a rule of life, hath an annexed sanction of gra∣cious rewards and fearful chastisements, as well as it hath as a covenant, one of legal rewards and punish∣ments, Psal. i. Isa iii. 10, 11. Exod. xx 6, 12. Rom. ii. 7,—10. & viii. 13. Heb. xi. 6. Gal. vi. 7,—10. 1 Cor. xv. 58. Without Neonomianism, the Holy Ghost calls that which is annexed to believers obedi∣ence, a reward, and that which is connected with their disobedience, a punishment, Psal. xix 11. & lviii. 11. Prov. xi. 18. & xxiii. 18. Mat. v. 12. & x. 41. Gen. xv. 1. Ezra ix. 13. Amos iii. 2. 2 Cor. ii. 6 Lam. iii. 39 Psalm xcix. 8. "The threatenings of God's law shew believers what even their sins deserve, and what afflictions in this world they may expect for them, al∣though freed from the curse thereof, threatened by the law. The promises of it shew them God's appro∣bation of obedience, and what blessings they may ex∣pect upon the performance thereof, although not as due to them by the law as a covenant of works; so as a man's doing good, and refraining from evil, because the law encourageth the one and deterreth from the other, is no evidence of his being under the law, and not under graceConfess. XIX. 6, 7. Marrow, Part 2d P. 14, 144,—147."10 The remarkable effusion of the Spirit of God, which attended the swearing of these covenants, for the conviction, conversion, and confirmation of mul∣titudes, fixing in their hearts such a deep sense of reli∣gion, as all the profaneness and persecution of twenty eight years could not eradicate,—is no contemptible evidence that He looked upon them as religious, not merely state covenants. It is at our infinite hazard, if we call that common and unclean, which God hath so singularly honoured.OBJECT. I. "Our Covenanters characterizing themselves Noblemen, Barons, Burgesses and Commons,0