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 mine heart, the year of my redeemed is come." Isa. xiii. 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 foods 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 word out of hell, the 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 is 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, promising God in Christ, 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,