...publicly recognized their covenant with God : " Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice." They ought to profess a willingness of heart to embrace...

...very important3 principle ; nay it is the pillar of the law and of the commandments, as it is said : See, I have set before thee this day life [and good, and death and evil}, (Deut. xxx. 15,) ; and [again] it is written: Behold, I set before you this day [a blessing1 and a...

...then consider Jehovah as addressing us in the language he once usc.d to hi* chosen people : " Behold I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil : a blessing if ye obey the commandments of the Lord your God ; and a curse if ye will not obey the...

...it ? But the word is very nigh unto thee ; in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. See, I have set before thee this day, life and good, and death and evilf." The exposition of these words is given us by St. Paul, who tells us, that in them Moses spake,...

...soul1." He prays, " The Lord our God be with us, that he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathersm." And then, to impress this the more deeply on the people's...

...given by Moses in the 30th chapter of the same book — " See, I have set before thee life and good, death and evil; in that I command thee this day to...to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply." Again, " I call heaven and earth to record this day...

...with our fathers ; let him not M leave us, nor forsake us ; that he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers. And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication...

...consequence shall result from its being sincerely and practically believed. It does indeed declare saying, " I have set before thee this day life- and good, and death and evil." And to the same authority I appeal for decision concerning this life and good, and death and evil,...

...conforming to that culminating commandment with which Moses concludes and contains the whole of the law: "See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil. . . . therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: That thou mayest love the Lord thy...

...would allow evil to exist. That situation was to give His created beings a to do evil or good. Sec, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil... I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death,...