Application —
P Jer. xxx. 12 — 15.
i Jer. xxx. 16, 17. The word therefore should here be translated " nevertheless."
r Jer. xxxiii. (>. s Jer. xxxiii. 7 — 11. with Rom. xi. 12, 13.
1 Isai. xxiv. 23. u Isai. xxxv. 10.
x Rev. xxi. 23 — 26. and xxii. 5.
1. Let us look forward then to that blessed period —
[We need not be distracting our minds, and the minds of others, with curious questions about the precise manner in which Christ and his saints will reign : still less is it expedient to dogmatize upon this matter, as some are doing at this day : but we should look forward to it with holy joy, and expect it with most confident assurance : and the 98th Psalm should express the habitual frame of all our minds y ]
2. Let us seek the foretaste of it in our own souls —
[Why should we rest satisfied with low measures of holi- ness or of joy, when it is our privilege to " rejoice in Christ with joy unspeakable and full of glory2?" We are not con- tented with the light of the moon, when we can have the light of the sun, nor are we satisfied with the sun in its early dawn, when we can enjoy it in its meridian height. Let us, then, extend this desire to all spiritual blessings, and never be satis- fied, till we are as holy and as happy as God himself can make us.]
y Ps. xcviii. 1—9. z 1 Pet. i. 8.