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

Thus runs the tenor of his Covenant, I will be a God to thee and to thy seed after thee. This is the general promise; I may call it the Mother-Promise, that carries all other Promises in its womb; & we find a Jesus in this promise, consider that it is God in Christ ⟨p. 92⟩that is held forth to us in this phrase, I will be as a God to thee: O sweet! Here is the greatest promise that ever was made; Christ God is more than Grace, Pardon, Holiness, Heaven, as the Husband is more excellent than the Marriage-Robe, Bracelets, Rings; the Well and Fountain of Life is of more excellency than the streams; Christ Jesus the objective happiness, is far above a created and formal Beatitude which issueth from him. O my Soul is not this worthy of thy inmost consideration? But of this more in the next.

Thus runs the tenour of his Covenant, I will be a God to thee and to thy seed after thee. This is the general promise; I may call it the Mother-Promise, that carries all other Promises in its womb; & we find a Jesus in this promise, consider that it is God in Christ ⟨p. 92⟩that is held forth to us in this phrase, I will be as a God to thee: O sweet! Here is the greatest promise that ever was made; Christ God is more than Grace, Pardon, Holiness, Heaven, as the Husband is more excellent than the Marriage-Robe, Bracelets, Rings; the Well and Fountain of Life is of more excellency than the streams; Christ Jesus the objective happiness, is far above a created and formal Beatitude which issueth from him. O my Soul is not this worthy of thy inmost consideration? But of this more in the next.

3. Consider Jesus in that promise made to Moses and the Israelites, I am the Lord thy God who brought thee out of the Land of Egypt, out of the House of Bondage. Much hath been said to this Promise before as matter of thy Consideration; but to contract it, consider in the Promise the sufficiency and propriety; 1. Here is sufficiency: it is a promise of infinite worth, an hid treasure, a rich possession, an overflowing blessing which none can rightly value; it is no less than the great, and mighty, and infinite God; if we had a promise of an hundred worlds, or often heavens, this is more than all; heaven indeed is beautiful, but God is more beautiful; for he is the God of heaven: and hence it is that the Saints in heaven are not satisfied without their God; it is a sweet expression of Bernard, As whatsoever we give unto thee, Lord, unless we give our selves, cannot satisfy thee; so whatsoever thou givest unto us, Lord, unless thou givest thy self, it cannot satisfy us: and hence it is, that as God doth make the Saints his Portion, so God is the Portion and Inheritance of his Saints. Consider the greatness, the goodness, the all-sufficiency of this promise, I am the Lord thy God! No question but Moses had many other rich promises from God, but he could not be satisfied without God himself: if thy presence be not with us, bring us not hence. And no wonder, for without God all things are nothing;