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

Come then, O my soul, and whet on thy desires in every of these respects; as, 1. Desire after thy interest in the Covenant. 2. Desire after thy improvement of the Covenant. 3. Desire after the continuance of thy Covenant-state. 4. Desire after Jesus the great business, or the all in all in a Covenant of Grace.

1. Desire after thy interest in the Covenant; O say in thy self, is it thus? ¹is the Lord willing to receive me to his Grace? was that his voice in the streets, how long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity? turn ye at my reproof, ²behold I will pour out my Spirit unto you? was that his Proclamation, Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, incline your ear and come unto me,— and I will make an everlasting Covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David? and are these the promises offered in the Covenant, I will put my Law into their inward parts, ³and I will write it in your hearts, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my People? ⁴Oh the Blessed condition of those People that are in Covenant with God! Blessed art thou O Israel, who is like unto thee, a People saved by the Lord; Oh happy is the People that be in such a case, yea, happy is that People whose God is the Lord. But ah! what can I say? no sin like unto my sin, no misery like unto my misery; alas, I am an alien to God, I am separated from his People, I am out of the Covenant; like a poor Prodigal, I dye for hunger, whilst those that are in my Fathers house have bread enough: Oh that I were in their condition! never did David long more for the waters of the well of Bethlehem, than my Soul now touched with the sense of Sin, doth desire to be at peace with God, and in Covenant with God; O I thirst, I pant, I gasp after him, I long for Communion, and Peace with him; ⁵