...of deliverance and fafety. They comprehend the whole argument, both the antecedent and confequent. We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement. As it is evident, that thefe expreffions cannot be literally underftood, they muft be explained according...

...finful agreements may be broken up: there is a fad meeting and agreement we read of, Ifa. xxviii. 15. " We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement." Why, is- r.ot this the cafe of all men by nature ? Yea : but how is this fad and miferable meeting...

...agreement with hell, or the grave, not to hurt them. Therefore the prophet reprefents them as faying, We have made a covenant with death ; and with hell are we at agreement : •when the overflowing fcourge Jhall pafs through, it jhall not come unto us ; for we have made lies (that is what the prophet...

...the basis of the christian church, and of the eternal hopes of fallen men. See Isa. xxviii, 16 , " Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation, a stone, a tried stone, a precious coner stone, a sure foundation," See also the words of Peter himself before the Jewish...

...secure sinners shelter themselves, but which shall be swept away by the overflowing scourge, says ; " Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a died stone, a precious comer stone, a sure foundation." And says the apostle to the Corinthians,...

...with Mansoul? But fearing lest also this knot should break, he bethinks himself of another, to wit: " We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement." Isa. xxviii. 15. Such men " glory in their shame," and determine to be more and more vile. 7 The margin...

...corn cometb in his season, * ? Hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men ! fays Ifaiah ; because we have said we have made a covenant with, death, and with hell are at agreement, when the overflowing scourge /hall pass through, it Jhall not come unto us ; for we have...

...elucidate that passage in Isaiah xxviii. 15. We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are wc at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass...refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves. qd We have cut off a covenant sacrifice, a purification offering with death, and with the grave we...

...God with horror,, being such a flat contradiction to the plainest scriptures, for in them we read, "Therefore, thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner-stone, a sure foundation; and he that believeth shall not make haste," Isa....

...Death, and witli Hell are we at Agreement. When the overflowing Scourge fhall pafs through, it fhall not come unto us ; for we have made Lies our Refuge, and under Falfehood have we hid ourfelves. Therefore thus faith the Lord Go I, Your Covenant with Death fhall...