The person of Jesus is the delight of the Father, the glory of heaven, and the foundation of the Church, considered as God-man Mediator.—The glories of his person is revealed in the word, but we must die to see them in full perfection, and no doubt that will be an heaven worth dying for: but blessed be God we are not wholly in the dark about these excellencies, so runs the promise, _They __shall all know me_, _from the least to the greatest_.—His person is truly blessed; his love is immutable; his work is honorable and glorious, exactly suited to all the necessities, of his people. His covenant engagements, his precious offices, his sweet titles and characters, the Father’s gracious acceptance of the work he accomplished, and to which he had called and appointed him. These, and a thousand more interesting points, are set forth as matters of our faith, and the food of our souls. His everlasting righteousness is our justification, his precious blood-shedding is our atonement, and his prevalent intercession at the Father’s right-hand, is the basis of our hope, and the ground of our acceptance.—I say again, my dear friends in Jesus, what a mercy! This is our refuge, our remedy, our joy, our triumph, our present and eternal all: and that we have the most important evidence of interest in these capital blessings, by being led from every other refuge; and under a sense, a daily view of our need, we are enabled to fly for a refuge, to lay hold on this hope; nor can we have a pain, a sorrow, a cross, a misery of any kind, from sin, Satan or the world, but the holy Spirit designs thereby really to endear the Lord Jesus to us, as he is revealed in the word. There is another most blessed consideration for our faith, viz. What Jesus has graciously said to his people, in all the precious declarations of the Father’s love; the evidence he has given of this in the gift of the dear Son, to obey, suffer, and die—the declarative evidence of his own love, in his willingness to accomplish the work of redemption; and blessing his people with the gift of the holy Spirit, as the principal evidence of interest in his love and work. His precious invitations to poor, needy, helpless, lost, wandering, undone sinners, who being in the least imaginable degree convinced of their state, they are invited to him, with the most comfortable assurance of salvation; which assurance _of_, and _to_ faith, will, in due time, produce the comfortable assurance of sense. His promises are exceeding glorious—hence the Church declared, after a beautiful, tho’ enigmatical description of her Beloved, _His mouth is most sweet_. The promises are very precious, yea, the Apostle calls them _exceeding precious_—they are exactly adapted to our cases, let them be what they may: if thirsting for the consolations of the Spirit, Jesus says, _I will pour water on him_, _and floods on the dry ground_. If ready to give up all, having waited