coming of Christ, when Zacharias tells us that God would grant us—“that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies, might serve Him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.”* And this he calls, first, God’s promise, and then, His covenant, and, finally, His oath,† so giving us three immutable securities. The nature of these enemies and the secret of this victory, will need to be considered in another connection; but, meanwhile, this may be assumed as