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Here is a beautiful address to Jehovah, in contemplation of his own eternal nature, the everlasting purposes and unchangeableness of his councils, and all his ordinances, providences, and dispensations, as purposed in Jesus, the uncreated Word, before the world began! And in the contemplation of these, the great Surety of sinners may be supposed as here speaking, that unless the faithfulness of Jehovah had sustained him, he must have perished in the vast undertaking. Never can the people of God be too firmly, or too frequently, established in the assurance of these great things of God. When Christ undertook the redemption of his people, and engaged, as such, to take their name and their nature; he had an eye to the Father's engagements and promises through the whole. Not only had Jehovah promised to fit him for the work, by causing the Spirit of the Lord to rest upon him, and giving him the Spirit without measure; but to assist him through every part, and to carry him safely through all: and in the end to make his throne as the days of heaven. Hence therefore, with reference to these gracious purposes, the Prophet may be supposed, in this portion, to be introducing Christ as looking forward to the period of his advent with firm dependence, and embarking in the vast design in full assurance, agreeably to what is said in the succeeding verses. Compare Isaiah 11:2; John 3:34; Psalms 89:29.