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

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;¹ but in the want of all other things, God himself is instead of all: It is Gods alone Prerogative to be an universal good. The things of this world can but help in this or that particular thing: as Bread against hunger, Drink against thirst, Clothes against cold and nakedness, House against wind and weather, Riches against poverty, Physic against sickness, Friends against solitariness: but God is an all-sufficient good; he is all in all both to the inner and outward man. Are we guilty of Sin? there is mercy in God to pardon us. Are we full of infirmities? there is Grace in God to heal us. Are we strong in Corruptions? there is power in God to subdue them in us. Are we disquieted in Conscience? there is that Spirit in God that is the Comforter, that can fill us with Joy unspeakable and glorious: And for our outward man all our welfare is laid up in God, he is the God of our Life Psal. 42.8. he is the strength of our Life. Psal. 27.1. he is a quickening Spirit, 1 Cor.