Isaiah 51:4-6

Here is another gracious call of the Lord, full of mercy and love, like the former; seemingly directed to those who have not only sought the Lord, but are joined in covenant to him, and know him. The Prophet Jeremiah hath described them under these characters, Jeremiah 50:4. How truly blessed is the Lord's proclamation to all such! God owns them for his people: to them belong the whole of gospel privileges; and as all the promises in Christ Jesus are their own, because Christ is their own; so his righteousness is theirs, even forever! And all these blessings are forever; never to be forfeited, never to be recalled. They begin in the Lord; and, like the ocean which sends out all its rivers and streams, and receives them back again; so what begins in the Lord ends in him. So saith the song in heaven, Revelation 5:9. Redemption from Jehovah is the first cause, and redemption to Jehovah is the end. Reader! doth not your heart leap for joy in the contemplation?