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whom he had already the promise that in him his seed should be called. “And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time.” It was after Abraham’s obedience and the angel’s second call‘from heaven that the oath of God in rati— fication of the covenant is declared.

I am inclined to believe that an intimation of the everlasting covenant of grace, made in the counsels of the Triune God from all eternity with the eternal Son of God, who as the wisdom of God was set up from everlasting, may be seen in the eighth chapter of Proverbs: “The Lord possessed me in the begin- ning of his way, before his works of old. I_ was set up from everlasting from the beginning ere ever the earth was. * * * Then I was by him as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; rejoicing in the habit- able part of his earth, and my delights were with the sons of men.” Prov. viii:22, 23, 3o, 31. The Apostle Paul applies this prophetic declaration to Jesus Christ, as personified by the word wisdom when he says, “but of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who, of God, is made unto us wisdom and righteous- ness and sanctification and redemption.” I Cor. i: 30. Christ is therefore shadowed forth in various ways, by many types and sacrifices, which have re- ceived their fulfillment in him when he said on the cross, “It is finished,” for all things that were writ- ten of him in the law of Moses and in the prophets and in the Psalms were fulfilled. And now the cov- enant of grace is revealed and manifested when he

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