Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy
God
Said, affirmed, protested, and in the most solemn manner
declared, that the Lord was their God, and him only; and that
they would have no other God, nor worship, serve, or obey any
other. The Lord is the God of all mankind, as he is the Creator
and Preserver of them, and was of the people of Israel in a
peculiar manner, they being chosen, redeemed, and privileged by
him above all others; and especially is of his elect in Christ
among all nations, whom he has loved and set apart for himself,
and determined to save; whom he has adopted and regenerated; he
provides for them, protects and preserves them, gives them grace
here and glory hereafter: he is their God in Christ, and by
virtue of the covenant of his grace made with them in him; and is
known by them to be so in the effectual calling by the
application of covenant blessings to them; and which is certified
to them by the Spirit of God, upon which they claim their
interest in him, and make profession of him as their God:
and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes and
his
commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his
voice;
that is, this was then their resolution and determination, their
protestation and declaration, to walk in all the ways of God,
both in private and in public, he directed unto; and to observe
all his laws, ceremonial, moral, and judicial, which he had given
them as the rule of their walk and behaviour; and to regard
whatsoever he should reveal by his prophets and ministers as his
will; and a view of covenant interest in God lays all good men
under the strongest obligation in the strength of divine grace to
attend to his will; nor can there be a greater motive to them
than covenant love, grace, and mercy.