yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant.
The Prophet turns from the whole abandoned people to address the elect alone, of whom Paul speaks. God's mercy flows only from the covenant He made; it has no other foundation. He now promises a better and more excellent covenant than the ancient one, which the people's fault abolished.
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God remembers His covenant when the sinner has forgotten it; He revives what we have broken. Though we proved faithless, He remains true, and the mercies that flow from covenant are sure mercies and everlasting. This comfort belongs to those who deal with God in a covenant-way.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 16:60-63
Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed,.... When covenant grace is manifested and applied, it brings persons to a sense of their sins, and to an ingenuous acknowledgment of them, with shame and blushing; they remember their evil ways in which they have walked, and blush at the thoughts of what they have been guilty of; and how they have sinned against a...