Infer —
1. How desirable is an interest in Christ Jesus!
[It is in Christ that all the promises are treasured up for us0; and in Him alone are they ratified and confirmed to usp. Unless as found in him, and united unto him by faith, we have no part in any one of them : but " all are ours, when we are Christ's*1." How earnest, then, should we be, in fleeing to him, that we may receive out of his fulness all the blessings both of grace and glory ! I pray you, brethren, neglect him not ; but seek him with your whole hearts, and cleave unto him with your whole souls.]
2. How truly blessed are they who are united to him by faith !
m 2 Cor. vii. 1. " Lev. xiv. 14, 28. ° 2 Tim. i. 1.
i' 2 Cor. i. 20. 3 ] Cor. iii. 21—23.
[To them God has secured every thing-, not by promise only, but by oath also ! And this he has clone in order that they might be assured of " the immutability of his counsel, and enjoy the richer consolation in their own soulsr." Take the word of God, my dear brethren : cull out of it every promise it contains, and carry it to the throne of grace, and plead it before God; and verily you shall, in your dying hour, be able to say with Solomon, " Blessed be the Lord, who hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise which he promised by the hand of Moses," or by all his prophets from the foundation of the world8.]
r Heb. vi. IS. s 1 Kings viii. 2G.