The display of glorious grace, or, The covenant of peace opened in fourteen sermons…

I. Who it is that makes this Promise. II. To whom the Promise is made. III. What is contained in the Promise. IV. The Spring or Rise of the Promise. V. The Stability of the Promise.

I. It is GOD,¹ the great God and Father of Mercy which makes this Promise; he that made and created us, see verse 5. For thy Maker is thy Husband, the Lord of Hosts is his Name, the God of the whole Earth shall he be called; A Promise of Peace from such a King is worth regard, and to be prized by all to whom it is made.

1. 1Who makes this Promise.

II.¹ This Promise is made unto the Gentile Church, and therefore it wonderfully behoveth us to consider it, and lay the matter to heart; some of those great Promises contained in the Writings of the Prophets, do peculiarly refer to the Jews, the Natural Seed of Abraham, but this wholly and particularly respecteth the Gentile Church, as you may see if you read v. 1. Sing O barren, thou that didst not bear, break forth into Singing, and cry aloud thou that didst not travel. The Jewish People were in a Legal Covenant Married to the Lord, and many among them were spiritually espoused unto him, and brought forth blessed Fruit, the Church of Israel had a numerous Off-spring; but for a long Period of Time we poor Gentiles were passed by, God espoused us not; the Gentiles ⟨p. 6⟩were not Married, or taken into a Covenant Relation with God until the Times of the Gospel, and it was upon the Rejection, and casting off of the Jews, that they were grafted in, as Paul shows at large,