Sermon preached at All Saints RPC in Brea, California.
From the Reformed Presbyterian Catechism by Rev. William L. Roberts Pastor of the Reformed Presbyterian Congregation, Sterling, Cayuga Co., N.Y. Written in 1853:
Q. What is public social covenanting?
A. It is a solemn religious transaction in which men, with joint concurrence avouch the Lord to be their God, and engage, in all the relations of life, to serve him by obedience to his law, in the performance of all civil and religious duties in the confidence of his favour and blessing in the fulfilment to them of all his gracious promises. Deut. 29:10-13. "Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel, Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water: That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day: That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob." Josh. 24:1, 25. 2 Chr. 15:9, 12, 15. Is. 19:18. Jer. 11:10. |
