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

2. Here is the propriety of Saints, the Lord thy God. O what is this, that God is thy God? Heaven and Earth, Angels and Men may stand astonished at it: What, that the Great and Mighty God, God Almighty, and God all-sufficient should be called thy God!¹ It is observable what the Apostle speaks, God is not ashamed to be called their God: Would not a prince be ashamed to take a Beggar, a Runagate, a base and adulterous Woman to be his Wife? But we are worse than so, and God is better than ⟨p. 93⟩so; sin hath made us worse than the worst of women, and God is better, holier, higher than the best of Princes: and yet God is not ashamed to own us, nor ashamed that we own him as our own, I am thy God. It is as if the Lord should say, use me, and all my Power, Grace, Mercy, Kindness, as thine own: go through all my Attributes; consider my Almighty Power, consider my Wisdom, Counsel, Understanding, consider my Goodness, Truth, Faithfulness: consider my Patience, Long-suffering, Forbearance, all these are thine: as thus, My Power is thine, to work all thy works for thee and in thee, to make passage for thee in all thy straits, to deliver thee out of six troubles and out of seven; my Wisdom is thine, to counsel thee in any difficult cases, to instruct thee in things that be obscure, to reveal to thee the Mysteries of Grace, and the wonderful things contained in my Law: my Justice is thine, to deliver thee when thou art oppressed, to defend thee in thy Innocency, and to vindicate thee from the injuries of men: what needs more? O my Soul, think of these, & all other Gods Attributes: say in thy self all these are mine: nay more, think of God in Christ (for otherwise what hast thou to do with God in a Covenant of grace?) and say in thy heart Jesus Christ is mine, my Saviour, my Redeemer, my head, my elder brother: his doings are mine, and his sufferings are mine, his Life and his Death, his Resurrection and Ascension, his Session and Intercession, all are mine: nay more, if Christ be mine, why then all good things are mine in Christ; I say in Christ, for they come not immediately, but through the hands of a sweet Redeemer; and though he be a man who redeemed us, yet because he is God as well as Man, there is more of God and Heaven, and free-love in all our good things, than if we received them immediately from God:

2. Here is the propriety of Saints, the Lord thy God. O what is this, that God is thy God? Heaven and Earth, Angels and Men may stand astonished at it: What, that the Great and Mighty God, God Almighty, and God all-sufficient should be called thy God!