all who trust in him. " His reward is with him ;" and it shall be conferred on all who receive him in faith and love. Who can depict the blessings which he will bring to the believing soul ? They are such as " no eye ever saw, no ear ever heard, no heart ever adequately conceived." " The peace" with which he will invest the soul, " passeth all understanding ;" " the joy" with which he will inspire it, is " unspeakable ;" and the "riches" with which he will endow it, are " unsearchable." Let the believer, though but of the lowest class, be appealed to, and he will confirm this truth from his own experience. Moreover, " his work is before him ;" and he will never leave it till it be fully accomplished. In the days of his flesh, he rested not till he could say, " It is finished :" nor will he rest now till he has fulfilled all that he has undertaken, and brought every one of his elect to glory. " Of those that were given him of the Father, he never lost one, nor will ever suffer one to be plucked out of his hands."
All this is to be made known to the Jewish people. They should be informed what a Saviour there is : we should bring to their ears these glad tidings, " lifting up our voice with strength, and saying to all the cities of Judah, Behold your Godm!"]
2. The benefits he will confer upon them —
[Desolate indeed is their condition at present : but it shall not be always so : the time is coming when they shall " no more be termed, Forsaken";" but shall be restored to all the honours and blessings which they once possessed. Once they were " an holy people to the Lord their God, even a special people above all upon the face of the earth0;" and " high above them all, in praise, and in name, and in honour?." And such shall they again become, when they unite in " seek- ing the Lord their God, and David their kingq." As partakers of his mercies in common with the Gentile world, they will be called, " The redeemed of the Lord ;" but with an emphasis peculiar to themselves will they be termed, " Sought out, and not forsaken." They appear to be forsaken at present: but it shall then appear, that God's eye was upon them for good even in the midst of their deepest humiliation ; and efforts shall be made for their recovery, which shall distinguish them pre-eminently as objects of his love, whom he has " sought out" with care, and brought home with joy.
Such are the encouraging statements to be made to them ; and such statements in God's good time shall be effectual for the bringing of them home in triumph to their God.]
m Isai. xl. 9. n ver. 4. ° Deut. vii. 6.
p Deut. xxvi. 19. i Hos. iii. 5.