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which had perifhed, that he had swept them away in the general flood; he is moreover moft graciously pleased to take in the Surviving BRUTES for themselves, and for their Pofterities, as Parties jointly interested with Men, and exprefly named together with them in the fame EVERLASTING COVENANT, written in Heaven, and SEALED with the RAINBOW.

BEHOLD the FORM of

THE COVENANT,

and bear witness unto

THE TOKEN

vifible to all men

even unto this day.

THE

THE COVENANT.

GOD fpake unto NOAH, and to his Sons with him, faying,

AND I, BEHOLD I ESTABLISH

MY COVENANT

WITH YOU, AND

WITH YOUR SEED AFTER YOU,

AND WITH EVERY

LIVING CREATURE

THAT IS WITH YOU, OF THE

FOWL, OF THE CATTLE,

AND OF EVERY BEAST OF THE EARTH WITH YOU,

FROM ALL THAT GO OUT OF THE ARK,

TO EVERY BEAST OF THE EARTH.

AND

I WILL ESTABLISH MY COVENANT, WITH YOU;

NEITHER SHALL ALL FLESH BE CUT OFF

ANY MORE BY THE WATERS OF A FLOOD:

NEITHER SHALL THERE ANY MORE BE A FLOOD

TO DESTROY THE EARTH.

And GOD faid,

This is the TOKEN of the Covenant which I make between Me and You, and every LIVING CREATURE that is with you, for perpetual generations:

I DO SET MY BOW IN THE CLOUD, and it fhall be for a TOKEN of a Covenant between Me and the Earth.

And it fhall come to pass,

when I bring a cloud over the earth, that THE BOW SHALL BE SEEN IN THE CLOUD: And I will remember my Covenant which is between Me, and You,

and every LIVING CREATURE of all flesh; and the waters fhall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

AND THE BOW SHALL BE IN THE CLOUD;
and I will look upon it, that I may remember
THE EVERLASTING COVENANT
BETWEEN GOD AND EVERY LIVING CREATURE

of all flesh, that is upon the Earth.
And GOD faid unto Noah,

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Look upon the RAINBOW, and praife him that made it * and, Let that beautiful and refplendent ARCH of Heaven be the vifible MEMORIAL of the LORD throughout all Generations, that HIS MERCY IS OVER ALL HIS WORKS.

I prefume it is now unneceffary that I fhould add any more Arguments or Teftimonies to those which have been already advanced and produced. For what? Shall GOD ESTABLISH his COVENANT, his EVERLASTING COVENANT with EVERY LIVING CREATURE of the FowL, of the CATTLE, and of every BEAST of the Earth, as well as with MAN? and fhall we despise those Crea

• Ecclus. xliii. 11.

tures,

tures, which are no lefs than Ourfelves in COVENANT with GOD? Shall GOD SPARE a wicked City for the fake of BEAST, as well as BABE and fhall we abuse those Creatures, for whose fake (perhaps) our City, and our Land is SPARED? Shall GOD difplay the riches of his Goodness in his CREATION of, and in his PROVIDENTIAL CARE over the BEASTS of the Earth, and over the FOWLS of the Air, and over the FISHES of the Sea, and over Every LIVING CREATURE that moveth upon the Earth, which his Wifdom and Goodness hath created and made? Shall he confirm the common dictates of HUMANITY and NATURAL RELIGION, by the exprefs DECLARATIONS of his holy Word,

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