Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

312 BIBLE
REVIEW Apr.-May
exceedingly." The token of that covenant was circumcision,
a strange token, but ever areminder that the
generative function should be kept clean and pure, and
used only for the fulfilling of that covenant. And when
that covenant has been kept; the people have always
been blest.
It was to the Israelites that this covenant
was given, but it matters not who they are or to what
nationality they belong, if they live up to the terms of
that covenant they will be blest.
Let those who have children under their care, teach
them the God-given purpose of their bodies, and the
consequences when the covenant is broken, let them
teach children that if they choose the way of the old
covenant, the way of generation, that the generative
function should be used only as God intended, for the
procreation of their kind, and not for sense-gratitication.
God saw that this covenant did not fulfil the purpose
for which man was made, so Paul says in Heb. viii. 7,
"For if that first covenant had been faultless, then
should no place have been sought for the second."
He made a new covenant. God's purpose for man is that
he should have life, and life more abundant, that he
should have dominion overall things, and should conquer
the last enemy which is death. Will not that be
the redemption of our bodies, for which the whole creation
groaneth?
If the new covenant is the law of regeneration, which
is renewing or redeeming our body, then the law of generation
must be overcome or transmuted by this new law
that is to be put into the minds and hearts, for this is
the covenant that He has promised, "I will put my
laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and
I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people."
(Heb. viii. 10.) So instead of creating by the generative
law, we shall create with our minds. We know
So