The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being…

A. This will be cleared in the following Conclusions.

1. God is certainly all that to his people that he hath commended himself to them to be in any title of his. He could not be known to his people, did he not assume such things to him; & it is but a little portion of him that we know by them. God is all perfections in one undivided essence, but we cannot discover these perfections but severally; and that he may reveal himself to us as an Object of trust, he hath assumed such Attributes as are suited to our understandings, in which he reveals nothing to us, but what he really is, and what he will be to his people. As he is their God in Covenant, so here by he tells them what a God he will be to them in his Efficiency.

2. That the end of Gods discovering himself to his people by such titles, is to give them advantage to take ⟨p. 395⟩bold of him thereby. God in his back parts is the object of his peoples faith, for none can see his face and live. We only have communion with him in his declarative Glory; and he hath made it his peoples duty to take hold of him, Isa. 64. 7. And the way in which we may so do, is in his precious Attributes, which are as so many handles on which our faith may fasten. Hence we read of taking bold on his strength, Isa. 27. 5. It is therefore to encourage this that he hath proclaimed his name in those golden letters, Exod. 34. 6.