The Spurgeon Archive The New Park Street Pulpit  The Allegories
of Sarah and Hagar  A Sermon (No. 69) Delivered on Sabbath
Morning, March 2, 1856, by the REV. C. H. Spurgeon At New Park
Street Chapel, Southwark.  "These are the two
covenants."—Galatians 4:24.      I. First, we invite you to
notice THE TWO WOMEN—Hagar and Sarah. It is said that they are
the types of the two covenants; and before we start we must not
forget to tell you what the covenants are. The first covenant
for which Hagar stands, is the covenant of works, which is this:
"There is my law, O man; if thou on thy side wilt engage to keep
it, I on my side will engage that thou shalt live by keeping it.
If thou wilt promise to obey my commands perfectly, wholly,
fully, without a single flaw, I will carry thee to heaven. But
mark me, if thou violatest one command, if thou dost rebel
against a single ordinance, I will destroy thee for ever." That
is the Hagar covenant—the covenant propounded on Sinai, amidst
tempests, fire and smoke—or rather, pro