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

2. I will be their God, and they shall be my people: Consider God essentially, and personally, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, God in himself and God in his Creatures: this very promise turns over heaven, and earth, and sea, and land, and bread, and cloths, and sleep, and the world, and life, and death, into free grace. No wonder if God set this promise in the midst of the Covenant, as the heart in the midst of the Body, to communicate life to all the rest; this promise hath an influence into all other promises; it is the great promise of the new Covenant, it is as great as God is, though the heavens, and heaven of heavens be not able to contain him: yet this Promise contains him; God shuts up himself (as it were) in it. I will be their God, 2. They shall be my People (i.e.) They shall be to me a peculiar People, Tit. 2.14. The word hath this Emphasis in it, that God looks upon all other things as accidents in comparison, and his substance is his People; they are his very Portion: for the Lords Portion is his People, Jacob is the Lot of his Inheritance. They are his treasure, his peculiar treasure:¹ his peculiar treasure above all People: If ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my Covenant, then shall ye be a peculiar treasure unto me, and above all people; for all the earth is mine: Observe O my soul, all the earth is mine, q. d. All people is my people; but I have a special interest in my covenanted people, they are only my portion, my peculiar treasure. Blessed be Egypt my People, Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine Inheritance. I have made all People; Egypt and Assyria, and all the world is mine, but only Israel is my inheritance: the Saints are those that God satisfies himself in; the Saints are those that God hath set his heart upon; they are children of the high God, they are the Spouse that are Married to the Lamb, they are nearer God in some respects than the very Angels themselves, for the Angels are not in a mystical union so Married to Christ as Gods People are.² O the happiness of Saints! I will be their God, and they shall be my People.

2. I will be their God, and they shall be my people: Consider God essentially, and personally, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, God in himself and God in his Creatures: this very promise turns over heaven, and earth, and sea, and land, and bread, and cloths, and sleep, and the world, and life, and death, into free grace. No wonder if God set this promise in the midst of the Covenant, as the heart in the midst of the Body, to communicate life to all the rest; this promise hath an influence into all other promises; it is the great promise of the new Covenant, it is as great as God is, though the heavens, and heaven of heavens be not able to contain him: yet this Promise contains him; God shuts up himself (as it were) in it. I will be their God, 2. They shall be my People (i.e.) They shall be to me a peculiar People,