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{The Application
Application for the Godly
The Right Performance of Holy Duties
Directions for the Duty of Renewing the Covenant
Direction: When to Renew Our Covenant}
There are some times when this duty is especially seasonable:
This duty is especially appropriate and timely when you fall into any great sin. Great sins make great breaches, and it is not safe to let them lie unrepaired. Breaking of covenant makes a breach in the conscience, and this will prove to be like the breaking of a seawall. If the breach is not perfectly repaired, there will be no stopping the waves and further damage.
This duty is also especially appropriate and timely in great stress and afflictions. In such times when we need some special comfort or help from God, we have more power over our hearts to bring them back or to bind them more strongly to the Lord. When Jacob fled from his father’s house for fear of his brother, Esau, “Then Jacob made a vow, saying, ‘If God will be with me and will keep me on this journey that I take, and will give me food to eat and garments to wear, and I return to my father’s house in safety, then the Lord will be my God’” (Genesis 28:20–21 NASB). This duty is especially seasonable in times of stresses and difficulties. Alas, it is too common that those vows that we make in days of distress are quickly forgotten in days of prosperity. When we are healthy, promises made during sickness are like Samson’s bowstrings: broken like yarn that has touched fire (Judges 16:9).
This duty is also especially appropriate and timely when one declines to a careless, remiss, or purposeless frame of heart or life.
This duty is especially appropriate and timely prior to the Lord’s Supper. These are all some of the special times for the performance of this duty.
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