Excerpt from A Treatise on the Covenant of Works
Hence, we read of God's covenant with day and night a. The word seems to have been derived from a root, which, in one of its forms, signifies to choose out, and in another, to cut down, or strike through. The parties between whom, the objects for which, and the conditions upon which, a cove nant was wont to be made, were usually selected for that purpose. And when persons in ancient times, entered into a solemn covenant with one an other, they used on the occasion, to cut or strike a beast in two, and to pass between the pieces of it, in token of their wish, that God might so strike and cut asunder, the party who should break the cove nant. In allusion to this ancient rite, the making of a covenant is, in the Old Testament, often styled the cutting of it. As the word, which the Spirit of truth uses in the Old Testament, denotes in ge neral, an establishment, so does the word which he uses in the New. It signifies a disposition, or an establishment in the form of a testament, or a testa mentary covenant 0.
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