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Sentence Examples He suggests asking for additional salary, increased severance, or payment during the period of the restrictive covenant. Christ as the only mediator of the new covenant is the everlasting Son of God and was foreordained by the Father for his three-fold office. Like many sons of the manse, he seems to possess a covenant to govern others. His subtly articulated, Augustinian view of a single covenant bestriding both Testaments is well worth revisiting. The conflict revolved around the content of the new covenant signified by baptismal waters. Such reform is arranged of seeming necessity within the context of a silent covenant. He claimed that all those who believe His message and receive His way of salvation are made part of the covenant. The Anglican and Methodist churches have signed a covenant intended to heal their 200-year rift and pave the way to reunification. To be legally effective, the covenant must be signed, sealed and delivered by the covenantor to the covenantee. In order to qualify for relief, there must be a legal obligation to covenant the sum of money for a period in excess of six years. For something this size, you covenant it to maximise the tax efficiency and hence the amount of the donation. An acquaintance has said that it is possible to covenant money to your children. Typically the project company will covenant to give notice of the assignment to the other party. Part of God's fulfillment of the covenant made to Abraham is realized through radical reversals. He made a covenant with Abraham to be God to him and to his descendants after him. Paul is talking about the covenant with Abraham through his seed which was Christ. The risk fee covenant clause is associated with the incentive fees on contract. Clause 3 sets out the employer's covenant to pay its own and the employees' contributions to the trustees. As a third term, the covenant engages aspects of the body politic as well as the modern contract. But the fact that he is abusing the marriage covenant does not mean the marriage covenant does not exist. Show More Sentences Their responsibility to uphold the covenant was both communal and individual. The ten commandments are the moral covenant of the Old Testament, the beatitudes the moral covenant of the New. A marriage covenant establishes the expectations that a husband and wife have in the marriage relationship. This covenant belongs to the community as much as it belongs to the man and woman who enter it. There is also an eirenic critique of dispensational and reconstructionist alternatives to covenant theology. When it is consonant with the covenant identity, then the meal practice also properly enacts and proclaims Jesus' death. She instituted proceedings against her landlord for breach of his repairing covenant and he counterclaimed for possession. Baptism is both a confession of faith and the sign and seal of the covenant of grace into which the Lord has brought us. The implication is that the Almighty sent Prophets towards the Israelites in succession to remind them of the covenant mentioned before. But where I think the learned judge has erred, is in making the possibility of such an innocent breach of the covenant a test of its validity. A covenant is more binding because it is not predicated on interest, but instead on loyalty, fidelity and holding together. In the new covenant introduced by Jesus, we have all become God's chosen people, called to spread the marvelous truth of his love to the world. There is a long history of comparing Hittite and Assyrian treaties with Old Testament covenant passages. In any case, even with a sublease, Zellers remains bound on the covenant in the lease. It is impossible, that the People, as one Body Politick, should covenant with the Aristocracy or Optimates. It explains that the Hebrews are descendants from Abraham, who, with God, formed the covenant. The homes will be covered by a covenant which restricts occupancy to local people. The idea that covenant marriage ought to be sanctioned by the state is illiberal, reprehensible and abhorrent. Through the proximity of these two verses, the resident alien has been redefined as a neighbor, to whom is due the covenant obligation of love. We must remember that behind justification by faith is righteousness, which follows from covenant. Show More Sentences Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary. The mythology of a religion tends to reflect the covenant between the followers of a religion and the Divine. However, the right to sell, or otherwise dispose of, an estate can be limited if the estate owner enters into a covenant to that effect. The questions he poses are the last two questions of the baptismal covenant in the Book of Common Prayer. They are the outcome of an attempt to whitewash the Romans in order to make the new covenant faith more acceptable to gentiles. The covenant requires the land be used principally for cultural and recreational activities. He redeemed us in Christ and he has sealed his own covenant with his people. Throughout all dispensations, these have been the unchanging requirements for living in a covenant relationship with God. The respondent's lease contains an unqualified covenant against underletting any part of the demised premises. The book contains a helpful survey of the various covenants made between God and man, and a useful discussion of the Sinaitic covenant. Would the same apply to a mortgagee if the mortgage contained a covenant restricting the use of the land? The plan also envisages the creation of a trading company which would covenant all profits back to the parent company. The church is not a household of only the regenerate, but is rather a household of all those under covenant obligation. The Yahwist tells us that from the beginning of time, God intended marriage to be a covenant of oneness, a unity of heart, mind, and body. The covenant implied that the ultimate goal of the tutelary relationship was to educate the colonial peoples to political independence. It is therefore necessary to know whether a breach of covenant is remediable. The promisee tried to justify the non-competition covenant on the grounds that it protected trade secrets. Compliance with the reservation also constituted a covenant under the lease. The Sabbath was, I agree, a covenantal sign for the Mosaic covenant, and it certainly ceased as a 7th day covenant. If the covenant has the meaning suggested by the lessees, the lessors are liable for breach of the implied covenant. Show More Sentences With the approach of Advent, we begin to prepare for the new covenant as issued in the birth of Jesus. The counselor contemplates these counseling agreements in light of God's eternal covenant through prayerful reflection. At the parish level I have experienced firsthand the shifting sands of Anglicanism from covenant to contract. A single man's failure endangers the whole community, their millennial mission, and their covenant with God. In a similar vein, Harold Lewis notes the importance of covenant in framing our lives sacramentally and relationally. We were also expecting to hear about how Moses sealed our covenant with God in the blood of sacrificial animals. A covenant places the emphasis on the church as an organism of living relationships rather than an institutional organization. The sense was that these were books belonging to the old or new covenant, not that the books themselves were the covenants. Under the new covenant we have the born-again experience, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, the body and blood of Christ, and the ministries and gifts of the Holy Spirit. Why, whensoever they have made a covenant, does a party of them reject it? But MLB has a duty at least to try to live up to its contract with the players and its covenant with the public. It has the right to regard the threat that Hamas poses as an annihilating one, given the emphatic language of its covenant. When a lessee commits a breach of covenant on which the lessor has a right of re-entry, he may elect to avoid or not to avoid the lease, and he may do so by deed or by word. To comply with their covenant at clause 2 of the Lease the family were obliged to repaper the walls in question and not simply to paint over the existing wallpaper. Appointed to a living at Kilwinning in Ayrshire, he took part in the Glasgow Assembly, protested against Arminian innovations, and served with the army of the covenant. In breach of covenant, the tenant has failed to complete the works. Therefore, this covenant is not entered into lightly or unadvisedly. That is the covenant, the bond that binds this brotherhood of airmen. They want to put a covenant on the chapel to ensure I don't make it into a bunkhouse, restaurant or any such thing that would attract a high number of visitors. In the late medieval period, voluntarist theologians such as William of Ockham and Gabriel Biel radically distinguished God's absolute freedom and God's covenant relations. Show More Sentences If Reconstructionism remains marginal, Deace believes that the broader movement of covenant theology is growing. The preamble of the church covenant reflected Calvinistic theology. The recurrence of the ghost, an archetypal figure of incompletion, implies that a self-perpetuating covenant between the living and the dead has been left in limbo. The treaty's opening clauses constituted the covenant of the League. Mr. Brosovsky has since broken that covenant, but I will hold mine. Finally, a fee risk covenant clause is included in the contract. Clause 5.9.1 is the main user covenant, in the following terms. The grantee sued the grantor upon his covenant to maintain the road. My generation and those before it are counting on there being an unbreakable covenant from the future wealth producers to keep us at a certain standard in our dotage. We shall never make any conjunction with these abominable popish idolaters, and shall, according to our national covenant, detest and abhour all their wicked, superstitious rites and ceremonies. The report recommended a covenant for the Anglican Communion, an idea that did not come to fruition. The historic Methodist understanding of Scripture is based on the superstructure of Wesleyan covenant theology. As in the relationship of a child to its parents, we preconsciously entrust ourselves to God's care through the creational covenant. A second covenant, called the covenant of grace, is said to have been made immediately following Adam and Eve's sin. Because Adam and Eve broke the covenant by eating the forbidden fruit, they became subject to death and were banished from the garden. The terms of the covenant are that God provides a blessed life in the garden on condition that Adam and Eve obey God's law perfectly. Reformed theologians use the concept of covenant to describe the way God enters fellowship with people in history. Near term pressure on cash flows is forcing the company to seek amendments to its credit facility to relax covenant requirements. His topics are commentary and imitation, voices of the text, renewal of covenant, and the metaleptic Joseph. Levenson, that the recitation of the Shema constitutes a covenant renewal ceremony. Show More Sentences A covenant is a contract in which the covenanter makes a promise to a covenantee to do or not do some action. Jordan structured the acquisition as a leveraged buyout with a covenant not to compete. Even those who think he overstresses this covenant narrative that under-evaluates the new in Paul will be stimulated by this book. Q How are restrictive covenants on land enforced, and is it possible to obtain compensation for a breach of covenant? A theology developed that saw the kingdom as in a covenant relationship with God. A restrictive covenant is an obligation that may be imposed on the owner of freehold property in the deeds. How, after all, do you explain a covenant to someone on the outside? My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Since 1975 it is in a formal covenant of partnership with the Waldensian Church, with a total of 45,000 members. These commandments are but two of a large corpus of commandments and laws that constitute this covenant, which is the substance of Judaism. This contravened the League's covenant, so Greece appealed to the League to deal with the situation. In a surge of national repentance, the people made a covenant with King Zedekiah to proclaim liberty, freeing every slave from servitude. In the Church of England, the diocesan vote against the covenant was decisive but the popular vote was only narrowly against the covenant. As part of this covenant, God promises to give the elect the Holy Spirit to make them willing and able to believe. In the covenant of grace, God freely offered sinners life and salvation by Jesus Christ. In 1780, Wesley printed an excerpt from Richard Alleine's Vindiciae Pietatis, which is prayer for renewal of a believer's covenant with God. The fall made it impossible for man to keep this covenant, so God made another covenant, this one called the covenant of grace. In the first covenant, a covenant of works, Adam and his descendants were promised life on the condition of perfect obedience. Chapter 7 is a description of covenant theology, which holds that God has dealt with humans through various covenants. He argued that baptism was a sign of a covenant with God, thereby replacing circumcision in the Old Testament. Show More Sentences Reflecting Wesleyan covenant theology, Methodists also believe that the Lord's Supper is a sign and seal of the covenant of grace. In the communion meal, the members of the Mennonite churches renew their covenant with God and with each other. And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord. Michael Horton, however, has defended the covenant of works as combining principles of law and love. In 1997, Louisiana became the first state to offer the option of a traditional marriage or a covenant marriage. Methodists annually follow the call of John Wesley for a renewal of their covenant with God. Barth saw the covenant of works as disconnected from Christ and the gospel, and rejected the idea that God works with people in this way. Adam failed, and God changed his covenant with him, in accordance with his eternal preknowledge and predetermined redemptive plan of incarnation and cross. Through the influence of Karl Barth, many contemporary Reformed theologians have discarded the covenant of works, along with other concepts of federal theology. That covenant can now be seen as setting the pitch for the catechism's pronaos and as offering the master key to the body of Hammond's practical divinity. God made a covenant with Abraham, promising the coming of Christ. Still, the tradition has long associated them with the diaconate, with Stephen himself commemorated as the first deacon and protomartyr of the new covenant. This covenant is administered in different ways throughout the Old and New Testaments, but retains the substance of being free of a requirement of perfect obedience. The only issue is whether Y must amortize the covenant under Sec. Two provinces have neither rejected nor embraced the covenant in full. Notwithstanding the fact that a restrictive covenant may have been made many years ago and appear to be obsolete, they still continue to have effect. Although practice varies between different national churches, most Methodist churches annually follow the call of John Wesley for a renewal of their covenant with God. Scripture was also viewed as a unified whole, which led to a covenantal theology of the sacraments of baptism and the Lord's Supper as visible signs of the covenant of grace. In 1981, a covenant project was proposed between the Church of England, the Methodist Church in Great Britain, the United Reformed Church and the Moravian Church. To divorce under a covenant marriage, a couple must demonstrate cause. Show More Sentences Instead, Barth argued that God always interacts with people under the covenant of grace, and that the covenant of grace is free of all conditions whatsoever. We hope and pray that this covenant will contain a clear and convincing long-term goal that will chart the course of decarbonisation in the coming years. The covenant of works is made with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Examples from Classical Literature The work of acceding to the covenant conditions on the part of each is personal. Angels in light, acquiescing in God's law, were at least virtually in covenant with him. There a covenant is made between the aramaean and the Hebrew, and a cairn of stones is piled up to commemorate the fact. The distinctions between debt, covenant, and assumpsit are merely historical. The cherubim stood in the holy of holies as guardians of the ark of the covenant. Look upon the covenant, for all the earth is full of darkness and cruel habitations. No love can be bound by oath or covenant to secure it against a higher love. The assign, as in warranty, came in under the old covenant with the first covenantee, not by any new right of his own. If the covenant was to be approached from the side of contract, the heir was party to it as representing the covenantee. When such a covenant is made, the legal estate in the land passes at once to the covenantee under the statute. The covenant for seisin was an assurance to the grantee that the grantor had the estate which he purported to convey. And where is the man that walketh so holily in this covenant as becomes him, and as it requires? The latter was soon turned out, and thereupon brought an action upon the covenant against the executor of the lessor. To have sponsors or witnesses of the parents' trustiness, and the child's covenant, or not. I knew that she would keep the covenant but I consented to please Old Nick. The renovation of a covenant is not less a covenant than was the original bond. In the manor courts, actions of debt, detinue, and covenant were frequent. In that He saith, 'A new covenant,' He hath made the first old. Ah, we was clever people then, afore the times of the new covenant. However,MDHC a reenforcing an old restrictive covenant from 1956 which prevents us from loading our own cargo without paying afee. Show More Sentences In the new covenant, on the other hand, all such fears may be dismissed. A covenant that runs with the land is a servitude, and few areas of the law are more complex and misunderstood than servitudes. In that He saith, A new covenant, He hath made the first old. Let our hearts be right with thee our God, and stedfast in thy covenant. The number eight is symbolical of the new covenant and the new creation. The oath taken in the presence of the people becomes a mutual covenant. There was a difference between the proposition and the covenant which she had felt only too quickly. To vow unto him singly, or unitedly, was a duty of his covenant. The court held that the assignee should have the benefit of the covenant. We are now in the new covenant, in a third world, as it were. Now has this new covenant been broken by man as was the first? While men are often unfaithful to their covenant, God never is. Being a new covenant blessing, the new heart is a new covenant sign. Otherwise the new covenant would be of the same nature as the old. The covenant is Wilson's souvenir to the future of the world. Rottmann insisted on her receiving the sign of the new covenant. Here the bondwoman referred to the Old Testament covenant of works, particularly circumcision and its New Testament corollary in the pedobaptist tradition, infant baptism. He who offers himself a candidate for that covenant comes up, like an Olympian, to the great games where the first-born of the world are the competitors. Peace proposals unaccompanied by a sworn covenant indicate a plot. The best of it was, that Bella and John and the cherub had made a covenant that they would not reveal to mortal eyes any appearance whatever of being a wedding party. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of covenant? Words that rhyme with covenant What is the past tense of covenant? What is the plural of covenant? What is the adjective for covenant? What is the noun for covenant? Translations for covenant Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words coven covellite coved Cove cove covary covenantal covenanted covenantee covenanter Covenanter covenanters 8-letter Words Starting With c co cov cove coven covena covenan