Blessed conclusion! Jacob's God is our God! God in Christ the sure refuge of his people forever, Amen.
REFLECTION S
READER! pause and contemplate the happy state of those who have God for their refuge. All the perfections of the Godhead are made over for their security, who have a God in covenant to fly to in Christ Jesus. The wisdom of God is engaged to guide them. The power of God is pledged to protect them, and his word, and oath, and promises, are all sealed to be everything they need. Moreover, in Christ Jesus and his righteousness they find strong foundations whereon to plead for the fulfillment of God's covenant assurances. There is a fulness of merit, and a fitness of salvation, to answer every case and situation, of the church, which Christ hath purchased with his blood. And the Holy Ghost, in his gracious influences, and breathings, and manifestations, so reveals the love of God to the heart, and so directs the mind into the patient waiting for Christ, that when our souls are living under these united sources of a believer's security, we may well exalt with the church and say, Jehovah is our hope and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Reader, mark down then for a rainy day, a day of trial, a day of trouble, this song upon Alamoth, for God's hidden ones. The city of God shall be refreshed and made glad with the streams of love, and grace, and mercy, which flow from a covenant Jehovah, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. God hides them when he shows himself. They are taken in, and made secure in an impregnable city. The Lord hath founded Zion, the poor of his people shall trust in it. This city is the city of God. God is in the midst of her. God hath owned her. God will protect her. God will bless her, and God will reign in her forever. And the inhabitants shall be made glad with the river, the ocean, the sea of divine love. Lord Jesus! give our thirsty souls now to drink of this river, the streams whereof rejoice the soul; and by and by bring us to that kingdom and city which is above, where thou leadest thy redeemed to fountains of living waters, and where thou hast forever dried away all tears from all eyes. Amen.