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 heart, the year of my redeemed is come, Iſa.lxiii. 4. O then, cry down the promiſed vengeance on all your cruel ſoul enemies, ſaying, Lord, have reſpect to the covenant.

Are you concerned about your ſoul's poverty and indigency, not only oppreſſed with wants and neceſſities, being abſolutely poor and needy and deſtitute of all good? O here is a covenant of ſoul-ſupplying grace, and of all needful proviſion, ſaying, When the poor and needy ſeek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirſt, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Jacob will not forſake them; I will pour water upon him that is thirſty, and floods upon the dry ground. O then plead the covenant as the Pſalmiſt here in the following verſe, ''O let not the oppreſſed return aſhamed, let the poor and needy praiſe thy name. Have reſpect unto the covenant''.

In a word, let your caſe be the worſt out of hell, this covenant contains all ſalvation as a covenant of grace, of all grace, of all ſort of cures for all ſort of caſes; and if you can get yourſelf wrapt within the bond of this covenant by believing and pleading it, then you draw God upon your intereſt, ſo that your concern is his concern, your intereſt is his intereſt, your cauſe his cauſe, as the Pſalmiſt ſhews here, ver. 22. Ariſe, O God, plead thine own cauſe. It ſtands upon his honour, and he will do his own work in his own time. If ever you got grace to draw a bill upon God as a covenanting, promiſſing God in Chrift, and have any bills lying tabled before the throne, and are ſometimes unable to plead and purſue the bill, with a Lord, Have reſpect unto the covenant;