The Two Covenants by Roswell F. Cottrell

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 19, 1869

“The Two Covenants.”

By Roswell F. Cottrell

I HAVE read the tract recently published with the above title, and am fully satisfied with the exposition. It makes the matter so clear that every one who will thoroughly investigate it must see the truth. I never was satisfied with the ad captandum-vulgus argument that the old covenant was the ceremonial law. The “first covenant had also ordinances of divine service and a worldly sanctuary;” but these ordinances were not the covenant. The present tract finds the making and ratifying, or dedicating of the first covenant with blood; and there can be no mistake about it. There is but one thought that I could add to it, and that is not essential to the argument. And that is, that one of the “better promises” of the new covenant is “the promise of eternal inheritance.” Heb. ix, 15. This, however, is implied in the promise, “I will be their God and they shall be my people.” In making a similar promise in the old covenant, the promise of an inheritance is also implied; for the Lord added, “All the earth is mine.” Ex. xix. 5.

I hope the friends of truth will take an interest in circulating this tract, and also the “Sermons on the Sabbath and Law,” which includes it. The other sermons I have not yet found time to read entire; but have no doubt that it is a pamphlet destined to do much good. Who will share in the profits by circulating it where it is needed? R. F. COTTRELL.