Again, God is said to have made a covenant with his creatures; now it is the very essence of a covenant to restrict choice; and that being must be considered a necessary agent who is under the necessity of fulfilling any given act.
These men were often called “covenant servants,” but they paid quarterage, and were entitled to all the privileges of freedom, excepting that they could not take apprentices.
Covenant Servants, servants or assistants engaged under covenants to serve for a period (generally two years), and whose engagements were recorded by the Clerk at the Hall.
The answer goes on to express the hope that the Company will not be compelled to enter into any further covenant with Dr.
William Collins the covenant servant of John Johnson complained of his master for “myssusing hym in his boxe money,” whereupon M{r} Johnson was ordered to amend his ways.
So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the house of Obed-Edom with joy.
It happened, when God helped the Levites who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, that they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.
It happened, as the ark of the covenant of Yahweh came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw king David dancing and playing; and she despised him in her heart.
So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of Yahweh by Samuel.
Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding aloud with stringed instruments and harps.
Tuesday, it may be added, is esteemed inauspicious by Christians, because on that day Judas Iscariot made his covenant with the chief priests.
They are a witness, perhaps, of a covenant between man and God, like those which Jacob set up at Bethel.
Two years after this covenant was signed, another attempt was made to divide the town, but it did not succeed.
Do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the Presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick.
Under suspicion of disloyalty to the Commonwealth, they were most unjustly compelled to swallow the Covenant as a religious test, or leave preaching and teaching.
Thus, therefore, the doctrine of the new covenant doth call for holiness, engage to holiness, and maketh the children of that covenant to take pleasure therein.
But what do you mean by these words--the old covenant as the old covenant?
Under the old covenant God's laws were written on tables of stone, while under the new covenant we receive the promise, viz.
This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them.
This covenant was the sublime staple of Owen's theology.
Children, live like Christians; I leave you the covenant to feed upon.
As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
So eight days later, when the covenanthad been proposed and accepted by the council and the envoys, a "mass of the Holy Ghost was celebrated in the chapel of St Mark, 'the most beautiful chapel that there is.
On Sabbath, July 14, it being certain that the people of Zahleh were coming, the Protestants assembled in the house of the missionary, to enter into a solemncovenant to stand by each other to the last.
For many weeks, she had been in the clearer regions of faith, enjoying greater nearness to God in prayer than ever before, with greater assurance of her interest in the covenant of grace through the Redeemer.
The covenant was taken by them separately, each one standing by the table, and laying his hand upon the Bible as it was read to him.
Nicholas Fowke and a band of debtors had a covenant lying there for the payment of 500 marks and fifty casks of wine.
Once more, my Saviour, I renew my covenant and give myself away; 'tis all that I can do.
Watson's Institutes:--Baptism introduces the adult believer into the covenant of Grace, and the Church of Christ.
Such indications of the Divine goodness are a fresh encouragement to me to renew my covenant engagement with my gracious Redeemer, to serve Him and His cause with greater zeal and faithfulness.
To the infant child it is a visible reception into the same covenant and Church.
Bunting said that the renewal of the covenant was a service peculiar to Methodism, and expatiated on the importance of its being entered upon advisedly, and in humble dependence upon Divine grace.
Now, God would never have made a covenant with little children, if they had not been capable of it.
On Sunday afternoon we had the renewal of the Covenant Service, in the Metropolitan, and the Communion.
Well; the next article in our solemn covenant Has cleared the point again.
The short on't is, he took a violent course to cut up the Covenant by the roots; and there is your quarrel to him.
Our intention therefore was to make the play a Parallel betwixt the Holy League, plotted by the house of Guise and its adherents, with the Covenant plotted by the rebels in the time of king Charles I.
M122 Blood-covenant formed by manslayers with the ghosts of their victims.
M121 Savages sometimes seek to form a covenant of friendship with their dead foes by drinking their blood.
M121) Strange as it may seem to us, one motive which induces a savage warrior to eat the flesh or drink the blood of the foe whom he has slain appears to be a wish to form an indissoluble covenant of friendship and brotherhood with his victim.
An aged native has been known to covenant with the crocodiles for nearly half an hour before plunging into the stream.
Upon that covenant I tell you my name is Sir Tristram de Liones.
As to that, said Sir Launcelot, I will not take your yielding unto me, but so that ye yield you unto Sir Kay the seneschal, on that covenant I will save your lives and else not.
Upon this covenant thou shalt have thy life, said Sir Bors, so thou go unto Sir Launcelot upon Whitsunday that next cometh, and yield thee unto him as knight recreant.
Upon a covenant I will tell you, said Sir Lamorak, that is, that ye will tell me whether ye be lord of this island or no, that is called Nabon le Noire.
And so the covenant was made, there should no man nigh them, nor deal with them, till the one were dead or yielden.
I wot not, said Sir Bors, but such covenant he made with me to be here this day.
Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenantof the priesthood, and of the Levites.
This is illustrated in the Old Testament by the choice of Israel and the great covenant promises involved in it, "I will be their God and they shall be My people," "I will be his Father and he shall be My son.
In like manner also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the New Covenant in my blood; this do as oft as ye drink it in remembrance of me.
And he said unto them: This is my blood of the Covenant which is shed for many.
At any rate, the Centre of the Covenant has now spoken with no uncertain sound.
He (Baha-'ullah) entered into a Covenantand Testament with the people.
If Baha-'ullah be our guide, all religions are essentially one and the same, and all human societies are linked By a covenant of brotherhood.
As we have seen, the two schismatic enterprises affected the sensitive nature of the true Centre of the Covenant most painfully; one thinks of a well-known passage in a Hebrew psalm.
It should be mentioned that the great office and dignity of Centre of the Covenant was conferred on Abdul Baha Abbas Effendi by His father.
Now say, my friend, will you conclude such a covenant with me?
The covenant is concluded, and may God bless it for the welfare of Germany!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "covenant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
