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them.” Heb. vii: 25. This covenant being thus rat- ified, and its condition being fulfilled, all other cov- enants are null and void—and indeed it would argue an imperfection in the fulfillment of the stipulated terms of this covenant if we should revert to any other covenant which was made before the fulfillment of the requisitions and terms of this covenant of grace. “For there is one God and, one Mediator be- tween God and man, the man Christ Jesus.” I Tim. II : 5. And now unconditional salvation is offered to all who shall believe in Jesus Christ, for Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.” Rom. x : 4. I say unconditional on our part, because the conditions were proposed, not to man, as formerly, but to the Lord Jesus himself, who fulfilled to the very letter the terms of the cove— nant made with him. Where obedience was re- quired of Adam, the event was a complete failure: and the same failure is found with regard to the covenant made with Abraham, in his offspring; for they forsook the Lord their God, and worshiped the idols of the nations among whom they dwelt, so that although the Lord fulfilled his promise to Abraham when he made a covenant with him, and put the off- spring of Abraham in possession of the land which he promised to him and drove out the nations of that land before them, yet they forsook the Lord and provoked him to wrath; and therefore they forfeited every claim to that land, and were left to the cruelty of the nations around them; nevertheless, God’s cov— enant with Abraham, which he ratified with the aw—

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