"But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions."
The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions - What are these? Are they not God in covenant with all his promises? Is it not the Lord Jesus with all that belongs to him? Yea, is it not God himself, Father, Sony and Holy Spirit, as the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob made over to his people in that comprehensive promise, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And God in Christ implies all his fulness in grace here and glory hereafter. Precious, 'precious Jesus! thou art' the purchaser of all those possessions! Holy, holy Father! thou art the giver of them in JESUS! Blessed, blessed Spirit! thou makest over to thy people the whole of these blessings 'by thy quickening, gracious operations! Glory be to the Holy Three in One for these unspeakable mercies! I crave the Reader's indulgence, to allow me to add on this passage a memorandum of mine which I have this day found on this scripture in my Bible, and which I subjoin in this place verbatim.
"This view of the passage was opened to my mind when consulting 'in my little Diary this motto for the day, Sept. 30, 1806. Gracious conclusion of the last morning of the month! Are not the Lord's compassions new every morning? Great indeed is his faithfulness." And the day on which I have now gathered it from my Diary, and inserted it in my Commentary is Feb. 27, 1812. Hitherto the Lord hath helped! What mercies, yea, what a series of mercies between those dates!