CHAPTER IV. — COVENANT DUTIES.

Covenanting ought to embrace present and permanent duty, 131 Duties to each one's self, 132 The cultivation of personal religion, 133 Sobriety and temperance, 134 The cultivation of the various powers of the soul, 135 The proper application of every capacity, 136 All such different from restraints imposed by human authority, 137 Duties to society in general, 138 To families, 139 To civil communities, 141 Owing by masters and servants, 142 Lawful civil governors and the people under them, 143 Duty of the civil magistrate, 144 Duties of the people in regard to the choice of their civil rulers, 145 —and to their obedience to them, 148 Duty of people living under civil governments not sanctioned by God's authority, 151 The doctrine evil, that so long as any law exists it ought to be obeyed, 155 To promote the real welfare of civil society, the duty of nil, 156 To classes of men, of whatever kind, 157 To the Church of Christ, 158 To abide by all the ordinances of divine grace, 159 To support the ordinances of religion, where enjoyed, 159 To maintain the rights and privileges of the Church, 160 To unite the various Churches of Christ, 161 To enlarge the Church, 163 —through Bible Societies, 163 Missions, at home, 164 —to the heathen, 165 —to the Jews, 167 To the Mediator, as Lord of all, 168 To declare the glory of God, 169 To maintain the truth, by profession and practice, 169 —of God's character, 170 —of God's government, 171 —of the relations of the persons of the ever-blessed Trinity in the Everlasting Covenant, 171 —of the mediatorial character and glory of Christ, 171 —of the influences of his word and Spirit, 172 —of the atonement and intercession of Christ, 172 —of the Headship of Christ, 172 over the Church, 172 over the nations, 173 —of man's depravity and inability to restore himself, 175 Covenanting should engage all to every former good attainment, 176 —to cleave to new correct views of truth and duty, 177 —to abandon the evil in the vow unobserved at the making of it, 178 Covenanting does not shackle inquiry, 179