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Rh 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 the oppreſſor return aſhamed, let the poor and needy praiſe thy name. Have reſpect to 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 ſorts of cures for all ſorts 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.' Stand ever 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, Lord, 'Have reſpect unto the covenant,' you have the ſtrongeſt encouragement to wait on him, and expect his anſwering the bill in due time; for he will rather work marvellouſly, and create new worlds, rather turn all things to nothing, than quit his concern in, or give up with his 'reſpect unto the covenant.'

Are you concerned for the advancement of the kingdom of Chriſt in the earth, as you ought to be? Here is a covenant of grace to the Jews, and grace to the Gentiles; grace to the Heathen nations, ſaying, 'I will give thee the Heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermoſt parts of the earth for thy poſſeſſion.' Are you concerned about generations