How different is the prospect, afforded through the medium of promises, from that vouchsafed to Moses of the land of Canaan! He was commanded to ascend the top of mount Pisgah, was from thence shewn the goodly inheritance, but, to call to his remembrance and to punish his sin, at the waters of Meribah, was told he must die on that mount, and never personally enter that land which his eye then so wishfully surveyed. Faith gives the prospective view of the celestial Canaan; hope anticipates an admission into it; and nothing can possibly occur to darken the animating prospect, to frustrate the joyful anticipation, or to hinder actual possession. Sin, that would bar the entry, is taken away by the sacrifice of the Son of God. The great “forerunner is _for us_ entered,” and hath taken possession of the glorious inheritance in behalf of his people. Not one angry cloud can intercept the prospect, since the Sun of Righteousness hath arisen with healing in his wings, to dissipate those noxious mists of darkness, which would otherwise have enveloped in impenetrable gloom our views of future happiness. “He hath blotted out as a thick cloud our transgressions, and as a cloud our sins.” The purchase is made in full proportion to the extent and glory of the inheritance, though in both respects infinite. The promise of admission is given by Him, whose veracity is pledged, and whose omnipotence is exerted, to accomplish what he hath spoken. The believer has, therefore, nothing to do but die, and take possession of a portion, of which earth and hell, sin and Satan, law and justice, life and death, cannot deprive him.