The cost of that covenant to women — the suppression of worldly opportunity — has been thoroughly told.
Again and again you offered a covenant to man, and through the prophets taught him to hope for salvation.
The Mayflower Compact was not a constitution but rather an adaptation of a Puritan church covenant to a civil situation.
It flew in the face of the government's covenant to care for all service-connected needs of our veterans".
In chapter 4 is an account of the fall of Shiloh and the loss of the ark of the Covenant to the Philistines.
In the 1890s, a descendant divided them up into 600 lots, restricting them by covenant to single-family ownership with the aim of attracting stable middle-class residents.
In chapter 3, the message is that Yahweh will send a messenger of the Covenant to prepare for, and announce, the day of judgment.
Covenant concepts in early Christian theology apparently centred on the transferrence of the Davidic covenant to the Messianic figure i.e., Christ.
When many Scots signed a national covenant to defend their Presbyterian religion, the king decided to enforce his ecclesiastical policy with the sword.
Archbishop Williams said the only solution was to keep talking, and moving toward creating a "covenant" to clarify the terms of membership in the Communion.
The group's statement, a "Covenant to Overcome Poverty," urges religious organizations to make working on behalf of the poor a priority.
