Jeremiah 30:21,22

I cannot forbear desiring the Reader to pause over this short, but most comprehensive passage, so full as it is of Christ, and pointing to him as it doth with a direction so truly blessed. God founds all that is said here in Covenant love, and traces all the blessings bestowed upon his people up to this one source: ye shall be my people, and I will be your God! And, considered in this point, how truly blessed is it to behold Jesus as our governor, in our midst, arising out of his own people, concerning whom he is not ashamed to call them brethren. Him, the Lord God our Father, will cause to draw near to himself. But who but Jesus could engage his heart to this service? Reader: can your mind imagine anything mere blessed, than thus to behold Christ, so plainly foretold, as engaging his heart to approach God for his people, as their Surety and Mediator; and Jehovah putting his blessed hand to the work, in causing him to draw near? Oh! precious, precious truth, of a thrice and tenfold precious God in Christ, reconciling the World to himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them.