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

Ravens have their food, and Devils have their being from God by creature-right; but we have all we have from God in Christ by Covenant-right,: this surely, this very promise is the main and principal promise of the Covenant; it is the very substance, Soul and life of all: O then how careful shouldest thou be to improve the strength of thy mind, thoughts, and affections on this only subject?

4. Consider Jesus in that promise made to David, ¹He hath made with me an everlasting Covenant, ordered in all things, and sure. 1. An everlasting Covenant: consider this in the eternal efficacy, and not in the outward administration? it is Christ that hath built and prepared a Kingdom, that shall never fade, a spiritual and an heavenly Kingdom which shall never cease: and as he hath prepared it, so if thou believest, he hath entered into a Covenant with thy soul to bestow it on thee; it is an everlasting Covenant, and he will give thee everlasting Life. 2. It is ordered in all things: the Covenant of grace is so marshalled and ordered, that it stands at best advantage to receive and repel all thy objections. Many and many an objection hast thou raised; how often have such thoughts been in thee? Oh I am miserable, I shall not live but die, my sins will damn me, I am lost for ever! And again, If God hath made with me a Covenant, why then have I something to do on my part? for this is the nature of the Covenant, to bind on both parts; but alas I have failed, I can do nothing, I can as well dissolve a Rock as make my heart of stone a heart of flesh, I can as well reach heaven with a finger as lay hold on Christ by the hand of Faith! Have not such arguings as these been many and many a time in thy heart? O consider how the Covenant is ordered and marshalled in respect of the Author of it, of the Persons interested in it, of the parts of which it consists, of the end and aim to which it refers: and in some of these, if not in all of these, thou wilt find thy Objections answered, removed, routed. 3. It is sure: God is not fast and loose in his Covenant? heaven and earth shall pass away, before one jot or title of his Word shall fail: consider O my Soul, he both can and will perform his Word; his Power, his Love, his Faithfulness, his Constancy, all stand engaged. What sweet matter is here for a Soul to dwell upon? what needs it go out to other objects, whilst it may find enough here? but especially what needs it to bestow it self upon vain things? O that so much precious sand of our thoughts should run out after Sin, and so little after grace, or after this Covenant of grace!