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

O my Soul, that thou wouldst but ruminate, and meditate, and consider this promise in all thy wants & discontents: when means fail, and the streams run no more, O that thou wouldest then go to the Fountain, where the waters run sweeter, and more sure:¹ for as Joseph said to Pharaoh it is not in me, God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace: So may Silver and Gold, and such things say to thee, It is not in us; God shall give enough out of himself: have God, and have all: want God, and there is no content in the enjoyment of all: It was the Apostles case as having nothing, and yet possessing all things: ²Surely he lived to God and enjoyed God, and he was an all-sufficient good unto him: God may be enjoyed in any condition, in the meanest, as well as the greatest, in the poorest as well as the richest: God will go into a wilderness, into a prison with his people, and there he will make up all that they are cut short of. Thy discontents therefore arise not from the want of outward means, but from want of inward fellowship with God: and if thou dost not find a sufficiency, it is because thou dost not enjoy him who is thy all-sufficient good: O stir up Faith, and consider the Covenant, think seriously on this promise, I am God all-sufficient: I am the Lord thy God.

O my Soul, that thou wouldst but ruminate, and meditate, and consider this promise in all thy wants & discontents: when means fail, and the streames run no more, O that thou wouldest then go to the Fountain, where the waters run sweeter, and more sure:¹ for as Joseph said to Pharaoh it is not in me, God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace: So may Silver and Gold, and such things say to thee, It is not in us; God shall give enough out of himself: have God, and have all: want God, and there is no content in the enjoyment of all: It was the Apostles case as having nothing, and yet possessing all things: ²Surely he lived to God and enjoyed God, and he was an all-sufficient good unto him: God may be enjoyed in any condition, in the meanest, as well as the greatest, in the poorest as well as the richest: God will go into a wilderness, into a prison with his people, and there he will make up all that they are cut short of. Thy discontents therefore arise not from the want of outward means, but from want of inward fellowship with God: and if thou dost not find a sufficiency, it is because thou dost not enjoy him who is thy all-sufficient good: O stir up Faith, and consider the Covenant, think seriously on this promise, I am God all-sufficient: I am the Lord thy God.