The conclusion
4. They are those whom he embraceth with a peculiar love, and do again love him above all.
5. They are entered into a strict and mutual covenant, where in it is agreed for the Lord to be their God, and they to be his people.
6. They are brought into near relation to him, even to be his servants, his sons, and the members and spouse of his Son.
7. And lastly, they must live with him for ever, and be perfectly blessed in enjoying his love, and beholding his glory. And I think these are reasons sufficient, why they peculiarly should be called his people.
THE CONCLUSION
And thus I have explained to you the subject of my text; and showed you darkly, and in part, what this rest is; and briefly who are this people of God. O that the Lord would now open your eyes, and your hearts, to discern, and be affected with the glory revealed! That he would take off your hearts from these dunghill delights, and ravish them with the views of these everlasting pleasures! That he would bring you into the state of this holy and heavenly people, for whom alone this rest remaineth! That you would exactly try yourselves by the foregoing description! That no soul of you might be so damnably deluded, as to take your natural or acquired parts, for the characters of a saint! O happy and thrice happy you, if these sermons might have such success with your souls, that so you might die the death of the righteous, and your last end might be like his! For this blessed issue, as I here gladly wait upon you in preaching, so will I also wait upon the Lord in praying.