AC 6804 - "Covenant"

AC 6804 [5]

That a "covenant" denotes conjunction (joining together)
can be seen from the covenants made between kingdoms,
and that by these they are joined together;
and that there are stipulations on each side,
which are to be kept,
in order that the conjunction may be inviolate.
These stipulations or compacts are also called a "covenant."
The stipulations or compacts
which in the Word are called a "covenant"
are on the part of man,
in a close sense,
the ten commandments, or Decalogue;
in a wider sense
they are all the statutes, commandments,
laws, testimonies, precepts,
which the Lord decreed from Mount Sinai through Moses;
and in a sense still more wide
they are the books of Moses,
the contents of which were to be observed
on the part of the sons of Israel.
On the part of the Lord
the "covenant" is mercy and election.