ark, God made ONE COVENANT with man and animals: "GOD spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, 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 said, 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 shall be for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth. And it

shall 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 shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. And the bow shall be seen 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 said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between Me and all flesh that upon the earth." (GEN. ix. 8-17.)

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III. If we pursue our way through the Sacred Books, we shall still find, that, as God at first made the animals of the brute creation, and, as they “found grace in his eyes" at the destruction of the world by water; so, when the world had again become corrupt, and God

had separated a people to himself, and gave them laws from heaven by his own voice, amid the terrors of his majesty, He, in his mercy, considered the animals as well as man. The Sabbath, ordained as a blessing to man, was to be a blessing also to the brute creation under his care.

1. Delivered first by the voice of God, and then "written with the finger of God upon the tables of testimony," (Exod. xxxi. 18.) and confirmed to us by the Saviour of the world, (MATT. v. 17-19; MARK ii. 27.) the fourth commandment speaks to every soul of man: "Remember the Sabbath-day to keep it holy"

-“in it thou shalt do no manner of work”

nor thy cattle." (Exod. xx. 8—10; xxiii. 12.)

2. It is a part of the traditional law of the Jews, that, when any animal was to be slaughtered, it should be done with a highly

polished and pointed instrument: if the bone was pierced, or the beast mangled, it was deemed unclean and burnt. This was, no doubt, intended to prevent any unnecessary pain in putting them to death.

3. In the twenty-third chapter of the Book of Exodus, we have the following command: "If thou meet thine enemy's ox, or his ass, going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him." (4, 5.) And, in the twentysecond chapter of the Book of Deuteronomy, the following: "Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt, in any case, bring them again unto thy brother. And, if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto

thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again. In like manner shalt thou do with his ass." "Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them; thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.” (1—4.) In the former of these passages, we have a command what we are to do in the case of the beast of our enemy being found going astray, or lying down, having fallen under a burden; in the latter, we are instructed what to do in the case of a friend: but both amount to the same, since we are instructed to consider even an enemy, even him who has "despitefully used us and persecuted us," as a friend and a brother.

In the same chapter of the Book of Deuteronomy, (the twenty-second,) at the tenth verse, we have this command: "Thou shalt