Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

4. This is the great promise, what can be greater? when God said to Abraham, I will be thy God,¹ what could he give more? so when God tells us, I am the Lord thy God, what could he say more? God having no greater to swear by, (saith the Apostle) he swore by himself. So God being minded to do great things for his People; and having no greater thing to give, he gives himself. O the goodness of God in Christ! I am the Lord thy God.

1. 1Heb. 6.13.

5. Let us see the fruit of this in reference to Israel; which brought thee out of the Land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. This was God's promise long before to Abraham, know of a surety, ¹that thy seed shall be a stranger in a Land that is not theirs, and shall serve them, and they shall afflict them four hundred years; and also that Nation whom they shall serve will I judg, and afterwards they shall come out with great substance. See here Israel must be strangers in Egypt, and serve the Egyptians four hundred years, but then he will bring them out of the land of Egypt, and out of their servile bondage: why this argues that God is Jehovah: now he has performed what he had foretold, and this argues that God in Christ is our Redeemer: for what was this redemption from Egypt, but a type of our freedom from sin, death, and hell? here is the work of redemption joined with that great name Jehovah Elohim, to signify that such a redemption is a clear testimony of a true and mighty God. Whether this were laid down only as a peculiar argument to the Jews to keep the Commandments, or it belongs also to us, being grafted in, and become of the same stock with them, I shall not dispute: this is without any controversy that their bondage was typical, and ours spiritual: you see the good things promised in this Covenant.