Joshua

Qu. 3. How then are these ways and means of the worship of God made known to us? Answ. In and by the written word only; which contains a full and perfect revelation of the will of God; as to his whole worship, and all the concernments of it: John 5:39, Isaiah 8:20, Luke 16:19, 2…

1. It deceives and deludes, it is a very deceiving and infatuating sin. It is the Lord's direction to Joshua to keep close to the rule, and to the Law of Moses, that you may prosper, or as it may be rendered, that you may deal understandingly wherever you shall go (Joshua 1:7, 8…

In (Deuteronomy 4:1) and (Deuteronomy 6) the Israelites were exhorted to hear and know the statutes of the Lord, that they might do them; to speak of God's word and works, which acts their knowledge, puts them in remembrance of God's mercies, and stirs up their minds. In (Joshua…

And as it was related to that, it was its eastern boundary. It is so spoken of (Genesis 15:18; Exodus 23:31; Deuteronomy 1:7 and 11:24; Joshua 1:4; 2 Samuel 8:3; 1 Chronicles 18:3; 1 Kings 4:21; Ezra 4:20). Agreeable to this diverse respect or relation of this river, under which…

And Paul bids Timothy, avoid them that teach otherwise, that is, any different doctrine as necessary to salvation, beside that which he taught (1 Timothy 6:3). And the reason of this sin, is: because God has given this commandment, We may not depart from his word, to the right h…

Chap. 12. 32. Josh. 1. 7. Prov. 36. 6.

It makes all Joshua's great victories, present to every one of us. The promise that had the love and grace in it which run through them all, is given him (Joshua 1:5): I will be with you, I will not fail you nor forsake you. Now the Apostle tells us, that the truth and love of t…

And to this head belong all the arguments that divines make use of to prove the perfection of the Scripture, against the New Talmudists in Christianity. 5. God every where sends his people to the Written Law of Moses, for the rule of their obedience, no where to any Kabal (Deute…

Oh take heed you go not to hell in the crowd of worldly business. Joshua, who was a commander of an army, yet his work as a soldier was not to hinder his work as a Christian: he must pray as well as fight; and take the book of the law in his hand, as well as the sword (Joshua 1:…

"Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread, shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea, shall your coast be." Again, the same promise is made to Joshua: Joshua 1:3, 4. "Every place that the soul…

See it confirmed by a scripture or two. Joshua 1:8. This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate therein day and night. Job 22:22. Receive, I pray, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

We do not meditate, that we may rest in contemplation, but in order to obedience. Joshua 1:8. You shall meditate in the book of the law day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein. So Philippians 4:8-9. Think of these things, do these thing…

The least offence to the eye is troublesome; a man should be as chary of the commandment as he would be of his eye. Sometimes it implies the similitude of keeping a way (Joshua 1:7). Turn not to the right hand or to the left.

(Psalm 1:2) But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law does he meditate day and night. And (Joshua 1:8) This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate therein day and night. As it is preached and explained: they submit to God's ord…

We should always have our rule before us. We are to walk according to rule (Galatians 6) and (Joshua 1:7-8): The book of the Law shall not depart from you, etc. If we would have our Rule before our eyes, we should not so often swerve.

Moreover, God will assist you to do it better. It was affirmed to him in (Joshua 1:9): Have not I commanded you? Be strong and of a good courage, for the Lord your God is with you.

David thus makes use of his portion in God here, and so should we [illegible] after David. The Lord had said to Joshua, I will never [illegible] you nor forsake you (Joshua 1:5). The Apostle in [illegible] 13:5 shows how every Christian should apply [illegible] to himself, imply…

Meditation is a serious intention of the mind whereby we come to search out the truth, and settle it effectually upon the heart. An intention of the mind; when one puts forth the strength of their understanding about the work in hand, takes it as an especial task whereabout the…

The complaints, prohibitions, comminations, with the commands, directions, cautions against giving way to, tolerating of and following many wayes in religion, and for contending for the Faith, buying the truth, &c. though delivered, and run in generall, they bind (as other Scrip…

The Christian of all men needs courage and resolution. Indeed there is nothing he does as a Christian, or can do, but is an act of valour: A cowardly spirit is beneath the lowest duty of a Christian: Joshua 1:7. Be you strong and very couragious, that you may: what? stand in bat…

1. Our own personal endeavours in reading, studying and meditating on the Scripture, that we may come unto a right Apprehension of the things contained in it, are required unto this purpose. It is known to all, how frequently this Duty is pressed upon us, and what Promises are a…

It was this Gospel of Peace with which God encouraged Abraham to come out of his own country, and with a patient and prepared heart to pass over all these difficulties to which he should be brought (Genesis 12:2-3). This was that glad tidings which the Lord brought to Moses (Exo…

[reconstructed: Jehoshaphat] being after in distress, applied this general to his present [reconstructed: situation], when the children of Ammon and Mount Seir came to turn Israel out of their possessions (2 Chronicles 20:8). The Lord made a particular promise to Joshua, that he…

(8.) Because, the Scriptures teach the way of life (Proverbs 2:9; Luke 16:29; Acts 24:14). (9.) Because, the Scriptures set forth the duties of every man in his place, and circumstances of his life (Deuteronomy 17:18-20; Joshua 1:8; Psalm 119:24; 2 Chronicles 23:11). (10.) Becau…

(1) Because, good works are described by the Apostle to be such, as God before has ordained, that we should walk in them (Ephesians 2:10). (2) Because, God expressly commands, that every man must not do that, which seems good in his own eyes, but only such works, as he has comma…

Who remembered us in our low condition. Sometimes God melts away the spirits of his enemies (Joshua 2:24). Sometimes he finds them other work to do, and sounds a retreat to them, as he did to Saul when he was pursuing David, The Philistines are in the land.

Lord, I can say but little, but I put in my surety, Christ shall answer for me, O look upon that blood which speaks better things than the blood of Abel; Christ is my Priest, his blood is my sacrifice, his Divine Nature is my altar. As Rahab was to show the scarlet thread in the…

3. The testimony of her faith, so called by Saint James, chapter 2 verse 25, and set down in the end of this verse, When she had received the spies peaceably. For the person: Rahab was a woman of Canaan, dwelling in Jericho; as we may read Joshua 2: there she lived and had her a…

For in speaking, there should be a conformity, and consent, between the tongue, and the mind; which is not, when any lie is uttered. Secondly, it is objected, that the Egyptian Midwives, saved the male children of the Israelites: and Rahab the spies, by lying (Exodus 1:19; Joshu…

And it cannot be denied but that the names of the days of the week, were the names of gods among the heathen. The prohibition is renewed (Joshua 2:7), You shall not make mention of the names of their Gods; which is yet extended farther (Deuteronomy 12:3) to a command, to destroy…

The heart shows it's deceitfulness about 1. Things Sinful. 2. Things Sacred. 1. The Heart shows it's deceitfulness about things sinful; this deceit is 1. In hiding of sin, as Rahab hid the spies in the flax, Josh. 2:6. So the Heart Hides sin: and how does it hide it?

Many instances of this we have in Scripture: Thus Rebekah teaches Jacob to lie that he might gain the blessing (Genesis 27), and the Egyptian Midwives saved the male children of the Israelites, by feigning they were delivered before they came to them (Exodus 1:21), yet it is sai…

Ready to fall flat, and beg terms of grace in and through Christ Jesus? Rahab, when the Lord had by his Messengers threatened destruction to Jericho, only Rahab's house was to be safe, she hanged out a scarlet thread before the Spies were departed (Joshua 2). She did not delay t…

This and that argument is alleged, devises how to answer it; this reproof is administered, devises how to defeat it. As Rahab sent the men of the city upon a fruitless errand (Joshua 2:5): "Pursue after them quickly, and you shall overtake them," when she had brought them up, an…

However, it is certain that such fears there were, and that they were ominous. Therefore Rahab said to the Spies (Joshua 2:9): I know the Lord has given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you. And again, ver…

For that any one should be a true believer, and yet not be justified is destructive unto the foundation of the gospel. In this condition she received the Messengers, and made unto them a full declaration of her faith, Joshua 2:10, 11. After her believing and justification thereo…

What if we come to examples? What bud of righteousness was there in Rahab the harlot, before faith (Joshua 2:1)? In Manasseh, when Jerusalem was dipped and in a manner drowned in the blood of the Prophets (2 Kings 12:17)?

The other fell about March when their Corn was grown up, filling the Straw and Ear for the Harvest, as the word probably signifies. Hence it is said that Jordan overfloweth all his Banks at the time of Harvest (Joshua 3:15; 1 Chronicles 12:15), which was occasioned by the fallin…

This verse contains no new matter, but opens that further which went before; to wit, that the people shall feel the very same powerful hand of God in their deliverance out of Babylon, as they had formerly proved in their deliverance out of Egypt. He opened a way through the seas…

The Prophet now sets the same God before their eyes, showing that nothing could withstand him, which by his power he overcame not, when he took his people's salvation in hand. For then he made a way for them in the sea (Exodus 14:21), and guided them through the tempestuous and…

For by his commandment the waters parted in two to give his people passage (Exodus 14:21). And Jordan fled back (Joshua 3:16; Psalm 114:5), so as the fishes being destitute of water, died and rotted. Verse 3. I clothe the heavens with darkness, and make a sack their covering.

The Lord showed his power, in disturbing that ancient river in his course, and making his streams run backward. The story of it you have (Joshua 3:15, 16). The people being to enter into Canaan, the Lord divides the waters of that river, making them beneath to sink away, and tho…

This was the ordinary course in the removals of the Ark. In an extraordinary manner, God appointed it to be carried before all the people, when the waters of Jordan were divided by his power, whereof that was a pledge (Joshua 3:15), which the people on their own heads going afte…

Or first, he comes and labors to dead the heart in duty, but the Christian too watchful for him there, then he is puffing of him up with an opinion of his enlargement in it, and ever he keeps his sliest and most sublimated temptations for the last. Fifthly, in his politick retre…

He that can make a few wounded men rise up and take a strong city, can make a wounded spirit triumph over sin and devils. The Ark stood in the midst of Jordan, till the whole Camp of Israel was safely got over into Canaan, Josh. 3. And so does the Covenant (which the Ark did but…

Now there was a great calm at that time in the river; therefore Mr. Standfast, when he was about half-way in, stood a while, and talked with his companions that had waited upon him there. And he said, This river has been a terror to many; indeed, the thoughts of it also have oft…

The duty which the Apostle applies in particular to Bishops and Deacons, in general appertains to all husbands, that they rule their own house honestly: and again, that they be such as can rule their children well, and their own households. The care of many husbands is in this r…

6. To this may be referred a declaration of such great and admirable works as God in former times has done for his Church: especially such works as have been done in their time: and if any memorials be remaining of them, make them known to children. This direction was also given…

(Joel 1:3) Tell your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation. (Joshua 4:6-8) That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, What mean you by these stones? then shall you answe…

We may not think, that Moses killed all the lambs that were to be slain at this Passover; but in his own family he killed his own lamb, and enjoined the people from God, to do the like in theirs. The like phrase is often used in the scripture, Joshua 5:3, Joshua is said to circu…

Use 3. If the righteous are thus excellent, let it encourage us all to true piety; no sooner do we become gracious, but we become precious. This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you (Joshua 5:9): that day we become righteous, our reproach is rolled away from…

All the conquests of princes redound to the advantage of that place, where they [reconstructed: fix their residence]: He is King of the world, but for the sake of Zion. Christ did manage this charge anciently for his people; when Joshua had passed over Jordan, and first entered…

Yet it was not without great reason that the Lord should now establish them by solemn Covenant to be a people to himself, because the nation had been much degenerated from the spirit and ways of Abraham in Egypt, and had broken that Covenant by their idolatries there (Ezekiel 20…

Caleb is said to have another Spirit than the murmuring People; another Mind, Will, Purpose, or Resolution. It is taken for Prudence, Josh. 5. 1. Anger, or the Irascible Faculty, Eccles. 7. 10.

And he is called their [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], Prince, Ruler and Captain, or Author of their salvation, on several accounts. 1. Of his authority and right to rule over them in order to their salvation; so he appeared to Joshua, as [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] (Joshua 5:14),…

The Angel of Gods presence who. Joshua 5:13, 14, 15. Captain of the Lords host described.

And as it was the glory of the people of old while they walked in the steps of the faith of Abraham: so it was the carnal boast of their degenerate posterity. Hence have we so often mention of those who were uncircumcised, in the way of reproach and contempt; and when they renew…

In an extraordinary manner, God appointed it to be carried before all the people, when the waters of Jordan were divided by his power, whereof that was a pledge (Joshua 3:15), which the people on their own heads going afterwards to imitate in their wars with the Philistines, rec…

So Christ appeared afterwards to Joshua in the form of the human nature. Joshua 5:13-14: "And it came to pass when Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, there stood a man over against him, with a sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him,…

The word of God is gospel indeed, good tidings to the meek (Isaiah 61:1); they will entertain it and bid it welcome; the poor in spirit are evangelized (Matthew 11:5), and Wisdom's alms are given to those that with meekness wait daily at her gates, and like beggars wait at the p…

Shall all these privileges be made void by an inevitable want of baptism? If so, would God have enjoined circumcision (which to the Jews was as baptism is to Christians) to be put off to the eighth day (Genesis 17:12; Joshua 5:5), before which day many infants died? Or would Mos…

Fear made Peter deny Christ; Abraham equivocate; David feign himself mad; fear will put men upon indirect courses, making them study rather compliance, than conscience. Fear makes sin appear little, and suffering great; the fearful man sees double, he looks upon the cross throug…

Sin is the accursed thing. Joshua 5.13. It is the quintessence of evil.

That things are not done by might and by power, but by the spirit of the Lord. When he appears against the most potent, their hearts melt within them, and there is no more spirit left in them, as 'tis said of the mighty inhabitants of Canaan (Joshua 5:1). Thirdly, we should make…

Not that the church of God cannot be a church, without this Sacrament. For it may want Baptisme for a time, and yet remaine a true church; as well as the church of the Iewes in auncient times, wanted circumcision, for the space of fourtie yeares (Joshua 5:6), and yet ceased not…

There are many things in the word of God, that show that when God remarkably appears in any great work for his church, and against his enemies, it is a most dangerous thing, and highly provoking to God, to be slow and backward to acknowledge and honor God in the work, and to lie…

Lord, I can say but little, but I put in my surety, Christ shall answer for me, O look upon that blood which speaks better things than the blood of Abel; Christ is my Priest, his blood is my sacrifice, his Divine Nature is my altar. As Rahab was to show the scarlet thread in the…

This thirtieth verse contains the first example of this rank; namely, the example of Joshuas faith, and of those that went with him into Canaan. And their faith is commended unto us by a notable fact of theirs; the causing to fall the walls of Jericho: the History whereof we may…

Thus dealt he always with his children; delivering Lot out of Sodom, Genesis 19. Rahab out of Jericho: Joshua 6:22. The Kenites from the Amalekites, 1 Samuel 15.

And therefore in the new Testament, Rahab hath no wrong done her, by this title. For, it is the thing that Joshua intended, to show what a one she had been: and therefore in speaking of her to the spies, he bids them go into That harlots house, Joshua 6.22; using such an Article…

When God first brought them into his land, which was to be the seat of his ordinances and solemn worship, the first town that they came to was Jericho. This therefore God anathematized or devoted to perpetual destruction, with a curse upon him that should attempt its re-edificat…

An Angel did not use to receive any worship from men; and he accepts the worship, and commands him to loose his shoe from his foot, for the place whereon he stood was holy; verse 15. And the same Person (Joshua 6:2) is called Jehovah; and there he gives him orders how he should…

So (2 Chronicles 17:9), (1 Samuel 7:16): Samuel went in a circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh. And (Joshua 6:3): You shall besiege Jericho. The wrath of God and an army of terrors blocked up poor Job, and stormed him.

And in the other instance which the Apostle mentions, verse 25: Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way? The Apostle refers to a declarative judgment, in that particular testimony which wa…

Christ did not chuse the eloquent Orators, or men of Authority in the Courts of Kings and Emperours, but twelve poor Mechanicks, and Fisher-men; and these not sent together in a troop, but some to take one Countrey to conquer it, and some another: the most ridiculous course (in…

And duties performed in faith (without which prayer it selfe is not accepted) they goe not without a spirituall blessing, though Nature and Art might performe the same for the outward worke. The trailing of the weapons of the Israelites, and their Military March, both in silence…

It is malorum colluvies, the complication of all evil; it is the spirits of mischief distilled. The Scripture calls it [in non-Latin alphabet] the accursed thing (Joshua 7:13); it is compared to the venom of serpents, the stench of sepulchres. The Apostle uses this expression of…

We indeed suffer justly. He acknowledged he deserved not only crucifixion but damnation (Joshua 7:19). My son, give, I pray you, glory to God, and make confession to him.

God has no mixture of evil in him; sin has no mixture of good; it is the spirits and quintessence of evil; it turns good into evil; it has deflowered the virgin-soul, made it red with guilt, and black with filth. It is called the accursed thing (Joshua 7:11). No wonder, therefor…

I know their works. Achan hid the Babylonian garment in the earth, but God brought it to light (Joshua 7:21). Minerva was drawn in such curious colors, and so lively penciled, that whichever way one turned, Minerva's eye was upon him: so whichever way we turn ourselves, still Go…

Sin which dwells in me. It is a malus genius, an evil spirit that haunts us wherever we go (Joshua 7:12). The Canaanite would dwell in the land.

A man covets more than his own, and this itch of covetousness makes him scratch what he can from another. Achan's covetous humor made him steal the wedge of gold, which wedge did cleave asunder his soul from God (Joshua 7:21). 2. The external cause of theft is Satan's solicitati…

1. Consider, what is there in sin, that you should continue in the practice of it? It is the accursed thing (Joshua 7:11). It is the spirits of mischief distilled.

Covetousness is not only in getting riches unjustly, but in loving them inordinately: This is a key that opens the door to all sin. It causes: 1. Theft: Achan's covetous humor made him steal that wedge of gold which cleft asunder his soul from God (Joshua 7:21). 2. It causes tre…

Wise men may guess when they see probabilities, and foretell that which depends on natural causes; the Devil can many times shrewdly interpret the predictions of the word, but a certain prescience of what is future, and merely in itself contingent, is the prerogative of God (Isa…

Psal. 10. 17. Thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear. 3. Another seed of hope is, the tender respect God hath to his own glory: This was Joshua's Argument, Josh. 7. 9. What wilt thou do unto thy great Name? If the People of God should be extinct, and th…

Our Church Covenants are with the Lord himself, as was showed before in the description thereof. For watchfulness and duties of edification one towards another, are but branches of the Lord's Covenant, being duties commanded by the law: and so it was with that people of Israel,…

James commands not such a confession. Daniel's, Ezra's, Peter's confession were some other thing (John 1:20; Acts 19:18; Hebrews 11:13; Proverbs 28:13; 1 John 4:2; Mark 3:6; Joshua 7:19; Daniel 9:4; Romans 10:10; 1 Timothy 6:13; Psalm 32:5; James 5:16; Leviticus 5:5; Leviticus 1…

We read of Potiphar's wife she cast her eyes on Joseph (Genesis 39:7). Achan (Joshua 7:21): When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them and took them. First he saw, th…

Thus Ahab troubled Israel (1 Kings 18:18), and the false Apostles trouble Galatia. 2. By wicked example: thus Achan troubled Israel (Joshua 7:25). 3. By force and cruelty: thus tyrants and persecutors trouble the Church.

First, that it is the nature of sin, to set all things out of order. It was the sin of Achan that troubled the Jews (Joshua 7:25). It was the sin of Ahab that troubled Israel (1 Kings 18:18).

The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. And therefore in the greater transgressions of the Law, the people were said to forsake, to break, to profane, to transgress the covenant of God (Leviticus 26:15; Deuteronomy 3:20; Chap. 17:2; Hosea 6:7; Joshua 7:11; 2 Kings 18:…

For these signs ceased with the present occasions of them. 2. This Lamb was to be provided for each household, v. 3, 4, which was the third distribution of that people, the first being into Tribes, and the second into Families, from the twelve Patriarchs and their immediate Sons…

Secondly, [in non-Latin alphabet], families, or [in non-Latin alphabet], houses of fathers, which on many probabilities may be supposed to have been seventy, the number of them who went down with Jacob into Egypt, each of which constituted a particular family. And [in non-Latin…

Many such instances there are among their ancient historians. Secondly, it was used in token of repentance, when sorrows for sin broke forth and multiplied (Joshua 7:6). When Joshua humbled himself upon the defeat, flight and slaughter of the Israelites before Ai, it is said, he…

Next, it is added; indeed, he is altogether lovely: Although she has spent many sweet words (and indeed there has been no straitening in her) in commending Christ, and although all her words be sweet, and especially when she draws near the close, her expressions be the more mass…

And let all this lead you to the fountain of iniquity, to the source or original of all abominations, and make you to confess with David (Psalms 51:5), behold I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. Beware of hiding, excusing, extenuating, falsely denying…

Psalm 79:5. How long Lord, will you be angry, for ever? And especially a gracious heart is saddened most at the outgoings of wrath against prayer (Psalm 80:4), in which the Mediator, and the precious name of God, in a manner, seem to suffer (Psalm 42:3, 10; Psalm 83:1, 2, 3; Isa…

Great was that esteem which Potiphar had of Joseph, when of a bondservant he made him overseer over his house (Genesis 39:4). Why is the title Father given to masters (2 Kings 5:13), and the title Sons to servants (Joshua 7:19 and 1 Samuel 24:16), but to show that servants shoul…

So still the Devil tempts us with a curious eye to take in the object, that it may be a bait and snare to the soul. Achan takes notice of it himself (Joshua 7:21): When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and a wedge of gold, then I coveted them, and took them. I…

Revenge, safety, and your own personal happiness, or God's glory? What will you do, O Lord, to your great name? (Joshua 7:9) Are you pleasing yourselves, with suppositions of your escape and deliverance, and wreaking your wrath upon your adversaries?

Jeremiah 14:9. And in prayer let us use Joshua's argument, Josh. 7:9. What will you do to your great name?

It may relate (1.) to the plenty of his tears, as the word is used in Scripture (Job 16:20): My friends scorn me: but my eye pours out tears to God, or drops to God — the same word; so it notes his deep sorrow and sense of his condition. The like allusion is in Joshua 7:5: The h…

There the mischief began, she pleased herself with looking on the Hebrew servant. So Achan, (Joshua 7:21) when I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight: then I coveted them and took them, e…

And this it does to cross and thwart God and his design, who and which is set upon the happiness of his people. 7. Sin is contrary to, and set against the glory of God, and all that should and would give glory to him, or has any tendency to that end: Confession of sin and repent…

'Tis their sin, and greatly aggravated (Revelation 16:9), that they repented not to give him glory. Sin dishonors, but repentance gives glory to God; and therefore Joshua said to Achan (Joshua 7:19), confess your sin and give glory to God. Oh, may we rejoice the heart and glorif…

So (James 3:5-6) the tongue is a little member, but as a little spark of fire, but it being kindled (becomes a world of iniquity, and) defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the whole course of nature; a little leaven leavens the whole lump, and sometimes one sin begets many m…

Joseph's mistress cast her eyes upon him, and then her ungodly heart was inflamed with wicked desires (Genesis 39:7). When Achan saw a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold, then he coveted them (Joshua 7:21). Covetous desires after si…

Whereas the sinner that is yet riveted in the wretched distempers of his own soul, the Lord when he has him upon the rack of conscience, may perhaps wrest a confession from him; but it is by a constraining hand, and against the grain wholly, he would be eased of his plagues, not…

- 1 The objects or arguments offered and propounded, infuse no power into the will which it had not, but only stirs up, and calls out that which was there before implanted, to put forth itself into action. - 2 When these persuasions are offered, there is still left an indifferen…

This was typified in the passage of the children of Israel towards the promised land; they must come into, and go through a vast and a roaring wilderness, where they must be bruised with many pressures, humbled under many overbearing difficulties, they were to meet with before t…

Second, covetousness is the root of theft. Achan's covetous desire made him steal that wedge of gold which served to cleave asunder his soul from God (Joshua 7:21). Third, covetousness is the root of treason.

The civil use of lots is when they are used for the ending of controversies: the dividing of lands and inheritances: the disposition of offices among many that are equally fit, the trying of the right in doubtful things, or lastly the discovery of a malefactor hid among many sus…

That we may make a free and ingenuous confession of sin, let us consider, Holy confession gives glory to God, (Joshua 7:19). My Son, give I pray you glory to God,the God of Israel, and make confession to him.

That is, take the contrary course. This is the counsel God gave to Joshua in Joshua 7:8: when he was humbling himself and praying, God said: 'Get up. Take away the accursed thing from among you.'

First; Such as are occasioned by outward Objects and Opportunities. So it was with Achan; Josh. 7:21. When, saith he, I saw among the Spoyls a goodly Babylonish Garment, and two hundred Shekels of Silver, and a Wedge of Gold, then I coveted them.

The means at least whereby men come to have eyes full of Adultery; Pet. 2:14. or live in constant Contemplation of the Pleasures of Sin. (2.) They arise and are occasioned by renewed Representations of the Object of Sin. And this is twofold; (1.) That which is real, as Achan saw…

As the people of Israel, when they were worsted in battle, searched the cause, and at last found out the Achan that troubled them, and stoned him to death. Joshua 7:18. So let us search out that Achan which has troubled us.

Declaration does work compunction; confession of sin, is but the causing of sin to recoyle on the conscience; which causs blushing and shame of face, and grief of heart. Reason 5 A fifth Reason why justified persons must confess sin to God, is, because their secret confession of…

And oftentimes the outward sight of the eyes is the occasion of these imaginations. So Achan declares how sin prevailed with him (Joshua 7:21). First he saw the wedge of gold, and Babylonish garment, and then he coveted them.

He will speak to her heart piercing and sinking words, and will give her the Valley of Achor for a door of hope (Hosea 2:14-15). That was the valley where Achan was stoned to death (Joshua 7:24, 27) — it signifies trouble; so that even the valley of trouble, when God speaks trou…

Ezra had spent the whole ninth chapter, in supplication for the Church, and then some came to him, and said, Arise, the matter belongs to you, there is hope it may be done. So Joshua, when he had fasted and prayed (Joshua 7:10-16), then Arise, Israel has committed an execrable s…

Now that first day being the beginning of the three weeks, and the Angel coming at the end of the three weeks, it is likely he continued his extraordinary prayers so long. David indefinitely says, that he cried till he was weary, till his throat was dry, till his eyes failed (Ge…

But in nothing is this more evident, than in the ancient casting of lots, a thing as casual and accidental as can be imagined, huddled in the cap at a venture; yet God overrules them to the declaring of his purpose, freeing truth from doubts, and manifestation of his power (Prov…

Ought he who scandalizes his brother, or the Church of Christ, to be willing, by a private, or public confession, and sorrow for his sin, to declare his repentance to those who are offended? Yes. (James 5:16; Luke 17:3-4; Joshua 7:19; Psalm 51 throughout; 2 Corinthians 2:8.) Wel…

So that when the thing is brought from the Thesis to the Hypothesis, there is very much to be trusted to the prudence, circumspection, and observation of those who are in authority, to set apart those for punishment who resist Reformation, as Jannes and Jambres did resist Moses…

7. Subtlety of Satan is to give some little respite, and seem to leave off tempting a while that he may come on after with more advantage. As Israel made as if they were beaten before the men of Ai, and fled; but it was a policy to draw them out of their fenced cities, and ensna…

Fourthly, they who were so joined in council with the Priests (2 Chronicles 19:8) are plainly distinguished from the Judges and Magistrates (verse 11). And so are the Princes and Rulers distinguished from the Elders (Acts 4:5; Judges 8:14; Deuteronomy 5:23; Joshua 8:33). Fifthly…

And in Deuteronomy 27:5, You shall build an altar to the Lord your God, an altar of stones: you shall not lift up an iron tool upon them. And according to which Joshua did, in Joshua 8:30, and hence in Joshua 22:11. Now for the altar of God, I shall first show you a little the m…

And this he spoke, that he might stir up Moses to fervency in prayer for the Israelites, and the Israelites to unfeigned repentance. Joshua having besieged Ai meant not to flee, yet does he fain a flight, that he might draw his enemies out of the city and destroy them (Joshua 8:…

The word must be ever with them; you must keep the word with you daily, and that will make you not know only what is amiss, but get ground [illegible] against whatever hinders your peace. Satan deals in this with the soul, as the enemy deals in war: when Joshua defeated the men…

2. To shed the blood of another contrary to promise. Thus after the princes of Israel had sworn to the Gibeonites that they should live (Joshua 9:15), Saul slew them (2 Samuel 21:1). Here were two sins twisted together, breach of oath and murder.

And therefore the Author to the Hebrews says, that God, to make known the stableness of his counsel promised,bound himself with an oath; that by two immutable things (to wit, God's promise, and oath) we might have strong consolation: so that an oath binds a man double to the per…

It was a bridle to all their enemies, except Amalek, upon whose country they travelled in the wilderness, when it was the interest of state in all those nations to rout that swarm of people that must have some seat to dwell in; and every nation might justly fear to be dispossess…

That this idol was worshipped not only by the Sidonians but also by the Philistines, and indeed by all who inhabited the seacoast, is shown by (1 Samuel 31:10). II. There was also a town by this name (Deuteronomy 1:4; Joshua 9:10), which can be doubted by no one to have derived…

As for that judgement of Urim spoken of in Numbers 27:21, which was by way of Oracle, the high Priest having Vrim and Thummim about him giving answers in God's name, which were of infallible truth, and made a supreme determination, that was for the resolution of doubtful and dif…

If the oath be of things lawful and possible, it binds and is to be kept, though we were induced to it by deceit. Joshua deceived by the Gibeonites, was brought to make covenant of peace with them, and to bind it by an oath: now perceiving after three days, that they had wrought…

(2.) In the days of Joshua, the king of Hierusalem was called Adonizedec, a name of the same signification with Melchisedec, which possibly from him was the name of the kings who afterwards reigned in that city. And that man as it should seem was in some reputation for righteous…

This appurtenance of them to the Ark, the Apostle expresseth by the Preposition [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩] from the Hebrew [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩] now this preposition is so frequently used in the Scripture to signify, adhesion, conjunction, approximation, appurtenance of one t…

And again, "I will make your enemies your footstool" (Psalm 110:1). As Joshua dealt with the five kings that were hidden in the cave (Joshua 10:24); he first makes a slaughter of their armies; then he brings them forth and makes the people to set their feet on their necks, and t…

Luther's prayer recovered Theodorus Vitus of a consumption, after the physicians had given him over for dead. The prayer of the righteous has stopped the sun in its full career (Joshua 10:13). It has divided the waters (Exodus 14:15).

Objection 3. Some books of the canon of Scripture are lost, as the book of the Wars of God (Numbers 21:14), the book of the Just (Joshua 10:13), the books of Chronicles of the kings of Israel and Judah (1 Kings 14:19), and the books of certain prophets, Nathan, Gad, Iddo, Ahijah…

I do not remember any instance in Scripture, that God went out of the usual tract of his providence, and acted in an extraordinary manner, but where his people were one way or other concerned. It was for Joshua's and the Israelites' sake that the sun was arrested to stand still…

It may be objected, the Apostles, Prophets, and others, had a gift to work miracles. Joshua commanded the sun to stand (Joshua 10:12): and Elijah commanded fire to come down from heaven (2 Kings 1). Answer: God never gave to any man power to work and effect a miracle, either med…

For they stick not to belch out glorious titles without any shame at all, albeit the lamentable confusion [2 pages missing] to flight in the valley of Baal-perazim by the pursuit of David (2 Samuel 5:20-25; 1 Chronicles 14:11). Secondly, when the Amorites and other enemies were…

For he says, that the Lord will work far above the order of nature, in this his liberality. We never read that the light of the sun was augmented, unless it were when it stayed itself in the days of Joshua, that he might have leisure to pursue his enemies (Joshua 10:13). Also in…

Locusts are his mighty army to punish Israel (Joel 2:25). Hailstones destroy the Canaanites (Joshua 10:11). Stones of the wall slay the Syrians (1 Kings 20:30).

The expression is metaphorical, and is to be interpreted and applied variously, according to the nature and condition of the enemies with whom he has to do. The allusion in general is taken from what was done by Joshua his type, towards the enemies of his people (Joshua 10:24);…

We are created anew to be his holy frame and workmanship, and then hardly can we but consent; nor bought we his love-influences. Yes, nor is the Lord obliged to give the Sun-influences for shining and moving, nor the fire for casting out heat: he has interposed his sovereignty i…

Assure yourselves (Christians) there is a day of recompenses for the controversy of Zion coming (Isaiah 34:8), and it is at hand; behold the judge stands before the door (James 5:9). Then vice and wickedness which now appear so daring, so threatening, will be effectually and irr…

(3.) It is to look with delight and confidence (Isaiah 17:7), as oppressed servants (Psalm 123:1-2). (4.) There is a word that notes to be silent, not to speak, not to move (Joshua 10:12-13): the Sun was silent, it moved not. It notes a godly submission that the soul dare not sp…

The ox and the donkey being more knowing to their owner, and the swallow and the crane being more discerning of their times, than men are. 2. They so keep their line, that there is more self-denial in their actings, than in man's way: as if fire were not fire, and nature in it d…

For it is above the power of natural generation, that the substance of one creature should be really turned into the substance of another, as the substance of a rod into the substance of a serpent. Of the like kind, were the standing of the sun in the firmament without moving in…

When it is said Christ's enemies shall be made his footstool (Psalm 110:1; Hebrews 10:13), no one will pretend that this means either a cordial submission to Christ, or annihilation. When the captains of Israel put their feet on the necks of the Canaanite kings (Joshua 10:24), a…

Chinnereth occurs in Joshua, (19:35,) as the name of an adjoining city, from which the lake probably derived its name. In the French copy, our author gives it Cinerot, or, as we have it, (Joshua 11:2,) Chinneroth. But that word contains a Vau, which is here wanting: though it mu…

At the same time, Christ fought as the Captain of their host, and cast down great hailstones upon their enemies, by which more were slain than by the sword of the children of Israel. After this Christ gave the people a mighty victory over a yet greater army in the northern part…

There is a deep of sovereignty between the Lord's withdrawing from Hezekiah, and Hezekiah's pride. God hardens Pharaoh's heart, and Pharaoh hardens his own heart (Joshua 11:19, 20; Isaiah 57:17; Psalm 81:11, 12). Qu. But what shall be done under deadness?

1. She is beautiful as Tirzah: this was a city of the tribe of Manasseh; the word in the original comes from a root that signifies acceptable, whereby it seems that this city has been exceeding pleasant. It was the seat of one of the kings of Canaan (Joshua 12:24), and of the ki…

But if the Scripture hold forth, as it does, that the Lord by his strong and invincible dominion does indeclinably, and without any possible failing bring forth his decreed effect, some impulsion of God immanent, transient, or mixed, which is terminate upon all second causes the…

But, by Promises are here meant certain special and particular promises, made unto them alone, and not common to all: so that the meaning of these words is this: They obtained the benefit and accomplishment of those particular promises that God made unto them. This effect is spe…

So (Acts 1:24-26), (Numbers 26:55), (Leviticus 16:8) for matters of God. So (Joshua 14) for the matters of life: yes, the Gentiles themselves knew it to be the very oracle of God (Jonah 1:7). Now such oracles of God, must not be used for recreation: seeing they are his name, and…

Besides they observe the number of the verses at the end of every book: as also that [in non-Latin alphabet] in [in non-Latin alphabet] Leviticus 11:42 is the middle letter of the Law; [in non-Latin alphabet], Leviticus 10:16 the middle word; Leviticus 13:33 the middle verse; th…

In all the rises and fallings of Princes, the stars of whatever magnitude (Isaiah 40:21; 1 Samuel 2:7, 8; Psalm 76:12). 5. His actings are in matter of lots that seem to be ruled by fortune and chance (Proverbs 16:33; Genesis 49; Deuteronomy 33, compared with Joshua 14:1, 2, 3).…

The civil use of lots is when they are used for the ending of controversies: the dividing of lands and inheritances: the disposition of offices among many that are equally fit, the trying of the right in doubtful things, or lastly the discovery of a malefactor hid among many sus…

Say, Lord, I want this kingdom of grace, I want a humble believing heart, O enrich me with grace, let your kingdom come; and be importunate suitors. As Achsah said to her father Caleb (Joshua 15:19), You have given me a south-land, give me also springs of water. So Lord, you hav…

The Vulgate adds, "That is, the city of letters" — from the Greek of the LXX, which has "city of writings." And the same city was called Kiriath-sanna (Joshua 15:49) — that is, the city of doctrine. By this term, therefore, doctrine or history is understood; for history teaches,…

So it is; for whereas all other idols had their groves and shrines within the city itself, the temples dedicated to Molech were built outside the walls of the city. It was called by that name before the Israelites entered the land of Canaan; for in the first division of the land…

There were 48 cities of the Levites dispersed through all the tribes, where not only the people were taught but also schools erected that they might be taught who were to be priests and Levites (Numbers 37). One city among the rest is called Cireath Sephar (Joshua 15:15) — that…

And for the last, Zophar the Naamathite, there is less certainty concerning him; some will have him to be Zepho, mentioned (Genesis 36:11), who was grandchild to Esau by Eliphaz his eldest son. And for his additional name Naamathite, the best conjecture which I find, takes it fr…

The city of Jerusalem was never thoroughly conquered, or taken out of the hands of the Jebusites, till David's time. It is said in Joshua 15:63. "As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the…

Beg a spirit of contrition; pray to God that he will put us in mourning, that he will give us a melting frame of heart. Let us beg Achsah's blessing (Joshua 15:19): Springs of water. Let us pray that our hearts may be spiritual alembics, dropping tears into God's bottle.

Be importunate after Christ — Lord, give me Christ or I die. As Achsah said to her father Caleb: you have given me a southern land, give me also springs of water (Joshua 15:19). So should a poor soul say: Lord, you have given me an estate in the world, but this southern land wil…

For there are those who derive it from a root meaning "he roared, he wailed," as if it were so called from the roaring that the sons of idolaters sacrificed there had uttered; but as we have said, the place was named after its owner, long before it was defiled by that crime. Fro…

In an extraordinary manner, God appointed it to be carried before all the people, when the waters of Jordan were divided by his power, whereof that was a pledge (Joshua 3:15), which the people on their own heads going afterwards to imitate in their wars with the Philistines, rec…

Leviticus 26:11. "I will set up my tabernacle among you" The tabernacle was set up at Shiloh, Joshua 18:1, and the priests and Levites had their offices appointed them, and the cities of refuge were appointed; and now the people were in a condition to observe their feasts of the…

And thus it ought to be in this day of building the tabernacle of God; with such a willing and cheerful heart, ought every man, woman, and child, to do something to promote this work: those that have not onyx stones, or are not able to bring gold or silver, yet may bring goats'…

1. It was God's place: that is, a peculiar place which he had chosen to himself, his chief place. 2. It was the place where God set his name at the first: that is, it was the first tent, or tabernacle where God set up his ordinances, and called his name upon it, after he had giv…

(5.) To prevent its trouble in the public hearing of things that may be otherwise healed and removed. Seventhly, In case these ends are obtained, either by the supposed offending persons clearing of themselves, and manifesting themselves innocent of the crimes charged on them, a…

And if they were not anathematized, all the spoils were left entirely to the people that went to war, without any sacred decimation. So the Reubenites and the Gadites at their return over Jordan into their own land carried all their rich spoils and cattle with them, no tithe bei…

So much for Defence of the fourth Argument for confirming the fifth Proposition. The fifth Argument of the Synod for confirming this fifth Proposition is this: That the denial of Baptism to the children in question, has a dangerous tendency in it to Irreligion and Apostacy; beca…

2. After this, it was retained, and set up as it seems upon the walls of the Temple, as a monument of that miraculous mercy and healing, which they had formerly received by it in the Wilderness. And this use of it was not instituted, but only indifferent, and it seems to be of t…

It is not impossible, but good men may for a time be unsatisfied about it, till they understand the nature and use of it, and yet the thing be warrantable enough for all that in the sight of God. The Tribes were troubled at the Altar set up upon the banks of Jordan by the two Tr…

And in Deuteronomy 27:5, You shall build an altar to the Lord your God, an altar of stones: you shall not lift up an iron tool upon them. And according to which Joshua did, in Joshua 8:30, and hence in Joshua 22:11. Now for the altar of God, I shall first show you a little the m…

And in Hosea 9:10: "They came to Baal-peor, and separated themselves to that shameful thing." He is also called simply Pehor in Numbers 25:18: "They plotted against you in the matter of Pehor;" and in Joshua 22:17: "We have not yet cleansed ourselves from the iniquity of Pehor."…

Or 2. (as commonly it is taken) it looks to the time to come, and so the meaning is, who shall declare his duration or continuance? Generation is often taken thus in Scripture for the continuance of an age, and of one age following another successively, as Joshua 22 — this altar…

But the Gospel teaches us a real and personal mortification, and that we are to be holy as he is holy, perfect as he is perfect; that is, a new-covenant command (Genesis 17:1). That we should walk before him and be perfect, that we should walk after the Lord (Deuteronomy 13:4),…

God's workings are squared to his engagements. This is still the close of all gracious issues of providence, God has done all according as he promised (Joshua 22:4; 2 Samuel 7:21). He brought out his people of old, with a mighty hand, with temptations, signs and wonders, and a s…

In point of prudence, as they have smarted under their former folly: and in point of thankfulness, as they have tasted the Lord's grace in his answer. 1. When you have declared your way with brokenness and bitterness of heart, you have experience of the evil of sin; and when you…

2. For prevention of sin for time to come. The smart should make us cautious and watchful against sin (Joshua 22:17-18). Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed to this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord, but that y…

And a plant may be in the Nursery, though it be not as yet fit to set out; yet it is so in the vineyard, and has both its fence and tillage belonging to it. It is an awk-way to bring souls to Christ, by disinteresting them in the Covenant-hopes, which are their great encourageme…

And our most learned Protestants in their writings against the Papists, do prove the Papists to be formal Idolaters from their adoration of God and Christ in Images (though they do not worship false gods, the gods of the Heathen) by these two examples of Aaron's golden calf, and…

By ceremonial worship, I understand all sacrifices and offerings, the whole service of the Tabernacle, and afterwards of the Temple: all which were typical, and established merely for the present dispensation, not without purpose of their abrogation, when that which was to be mo…

And besides, public scandal given by any member of the Church may bring Gods wrath on the Congregation, if the offender does not confess his sin. Joshua 22:20. Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israe…

A shower of fire and brimstone from heaven has not so cleansed it out of the country of Sodom, but that the venom and plague of it does still there appear in a poisonous and stinking [reconstructed: lake]. The plague which came among the Israelites for the abominations of Baal P…

To conclude therefore this point, though other judicial or forensical laws concerning the punishments of sins against the moral law, may, yes, must be allowed of in Christian republics and kingdoms; provided always, they be not contrary or contradictory to God's own judicial law…

Q. 1. What does God require of us in our dependance on him, that he may be glorified by us, and we accepted with him? Answ. That we (a) worship him (b) in and by the ways of his own appointment. (a) Matthew 4:10. Revelation 14:7. Deuteronomy 6:13. chap. 10:20. (b) Leviticus 10:1…

When Amnon hated Tamar, 'tis said, The hatred wherewith he hated her, was greater than the love wherewith he loved her. As 'tis thus with men, such a proportionable severity we may observe in the dispensations of God, after a taste of his mercies (Joshua 23:15): It shall come to…

(Revelation 22:17) This is called willing, "whoever will, let him come and take of the water of life freely"; the soul has a good will to the thing. It is held forth by several other expressions in the Scripture, it is called a cleaving to the Lord, or sticking to him (Joshua 23…

Thus dying Jacob when Joseph was come to take his last farewell of him in this world, strengthened himself and sate upon the bed, and related to him the eminent appearances of God to him, and the places where, Genesis 48. 2, 3. as also an account of his afflictions, Verse 7. So…

Ye that did cleave, or adhere unto the Lord; that is, who did believe. Joshua 23:8. cleave, or adhere unto the Lord your God. The same word is used also in the New testament, Acts 11:23.

Secondly, We find that God does severely both threaten and punish such as give external worship to any other but himself: How often are the Israelites reproved for bowing the knee to Baal, for baking cakes to the Queen of Heaven? Indeed, idolatry is very usually set forth in Scr…

And it is God's manner, when he has very great mercies to bestow on a visible people, first to fit them for them, and then to bestow them on them. So it was here: They believed in God, and by him overcame Sihon and Og, and the giants of Canaan; and are commended for cleaving unt…

How true has God been to his church, and remembered his mercy from generation to generation! We may say concerning what God has done hitherto for his church, as Joshua said to the children of Israel, Joshua 23:14. "That not one thing hath failed of all that the Lord our God hath…

Section 24. Thus God who himself began the writing of the Word with his own finger, Exodus 31:11; after he had spoken it Exodus 20; appointing or approving the writing of the rest that followed, Deuteronomy 31:12; Joshua 23:6; 1 Kings 2:3; 2 Kings 14:6; 2 Kings 17:13; 1 Chronicl…

This has been the practice of God's saints: Joshua takes notice of it. (Joshua 23:14) Not one thing has failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spoke concerning you. (1 Kings 8:56) There has not failed one word of all his good promises, which he has promised by the…

David owned the kindness as coming according to his word. So do the servants of God observe his accomplishing promises, (Joshua 23:14) And behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth, and you know in all your hearts, and in all your souls that not one thing has failed o…

So (Deuteronomy 29:14, 15) he says not, he shall make another Covenant with these when they shall be born: but I make a Covenant with you, and with these that are not here, not born. Hence by way of excellency he calls it the Covenant, the Covenant of the Lord (Jeremiah 2[illegi…

It notes a godly submission that the soul dare not speak against God (Psalm 37:7): rest in the Lord — [reconstructed: be subject to] JEHOVAH; LXX: sub ditus esto Domino (Psalm 62:6); from which faith teaches us to submit and hold our peace and lay the mouth in the dust, as a spi…

Then you shall have restitution of all these at times of refreshing wherein your sins shall be publicly blotted out from the presence of the Lord (Acts 3:19). If Joshua said (Joshua 23:14), when the people's warfare was ended, See if the Lord has been wanting in one word to you:…

This is to make God to be a God to us, when we are persuaded in our hearts, and confess with our tongue, and subscribe with our hand, that God is the only true God, and that there is none comparable to him. 2. To make God to be a God to us, is to choose him (Joshua 24:15). Choos…

Had there been no iron furnace in Egypt, yet there being so many altars there, and false gods, it was a great privilege to Israel to be delivered out of Egypt. Joshua reckons it among the chief and most memorable mercies of God to Abraham, that he brought him out of Ur of the Ch…

Certainly when the heart is seasoned with grace, there will be an endeavor to season others. God's glory is dear to a saint as his own salvation, and that this glory may be promoted he endeavors the conversion of souls, every convert is a member added to Christ: let us thus hall…

(Exodus 34:7) That will by no means clear the guilty. (Joshua 24:19) He is an holy God, he is a jealous God, he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins. (Psalm 5:4, 5, 6) For you are not a God that has pleasure in wickedness, neither shall evil dwell with you; the foo…

(4) Exodus 29:42, 43, 45; Deuteronomy 14:23; Psalm 133:3; Matthew 18:20; Revelation 21:3. (5) Exodus 20:5; Deuteronomy 4:23, 24; Joshua 24:19; Ezekiel 16. (6) Leviticus 10:1, 2; Numbers 16:3, 8, 9, 32, 35; 1 Samuel 2:28, 29; 2 Samuel 6:6, 7; 2 Chronicles 26:16, 19; 1 Corinthians…

So Deuteronomy 5:7, and hereby they had their solemn admission into their Church-state, and relation to God. And the like course they took when ever there was need of renewing their engagements (Joshua 24:18, 21, 22). And the people said we will serve the Lord, for he is our God…

(1.) Leviticus 10:3; Hebrews 12:28, 29. (2.) Deuteronomy 26:17; Joshua 24:22; 2 Corinthians 8:5. (3.) Ephesians 4:12, 13, 14, 15, 16; Jude 20.

All the world was at that time generally fallen into idolatry and false worship. The progenitors of Abraham, though a principal branch of the posterity of Shem (as it is like, in the line of primogeniture) dwelt beyond the river, and served other gods (Joshua 24:2). Probably Abr…

And this kind of asseveration is common in the Hebrew (Genesis 2:17): [in non-Latin alphabet] In the day you eat thereof dying you shall die; you shall assuredly die; be certainly obnoxious to Death; it may be also that the double Death temporal and eternal is included therein.…

Often it comes to pass that many men's preservation is but a reservation to a worse thing, to a greater judgement. So see Joshua 24:20: He will turn again, and do you hurt, after he has done you good. So Isaiah 63:10: He bore them in the arms of his Providence, but they rebelled…

Secondly, this generation was generally a generation of believers; for it was they that were to enter into the land within a while after; for they were forty years in the Wilderness, & this Covenant, was made in the last month save one of the last of those forty years (Deuterono…

From that day until the coming of the promised Messiah, God permitted the greater part of the human race to walk in their own ways. Noah — The myth of Saturn and Rhea arising from this — Janus — A herald of justice — The fictitious Sibylline Oracles — Authors of the Sibylline po…

Moreover, what we have said about Heber is expressly affirmed by Balaam in his last oracle (Numbers 24:24): "Ships from Chittim shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber" — where interpreters agree that the prophet uses gentile names and patronymics in place of conjugates, so…

The state and condition of godly theologians after the Babylonian apostasy — Abraham entangled in superstitions before his calling (Joshua 24:2) — Jewish fables concerning Ur of the Chaldeans, and Abraham cast into the fire — The calling of Abraham: how it occurred, and when — T…

XVII. Taking their designation from their worshippers, they are called "gods of the peoples," Deuteronomy 13:8 — that is, of those who have been rejected from the true God, His covenant, and His worship. For this reason also, at Joshua 24:14, they are called "gods beyond the riv…

Your God: that is, one which does vouchsafe you a particular favor, when in your creation he indued you with corporall and spiritual benefits, and does enrich you to eternal life (Psalm 144:15; Hebrews 8:10; Ezekiel 36:26, 32; Luke 37:38; Hebrews 11:16). By this appeareth, that…

It is held forth by several other expressions in the Scripture, it is called a cleaving to the Lord, or sticking to him (Joshua 23:8), and (Acts 11:23) it is called hearing, hearkening, and inclining of the ear (Isaiah 55:2-3) — an attentive, concerned, and holily greedy listeni…

Answer: If this were presumption, then all we have said of the warrant of the Gospel to believe is to no purpose; Christ never counted it presumption to desire and endeavor in His own way to believe on Him for attaining of life through Him; to desire heaven and peace with God, a…

We shall see the presence and goodness of God in all the blessings we partake in this world, he will be whatever is needful for us in every kind, and though any means should fail, yet God will not fail us: this do we desire of God, when we desire him to be our God, God is a heap…

We must give our best strength, the best we have of anything to God. I and my household will serve the Lord (Joshua 24:15), All is little enough to give to God; make it a point of our service in our best duties, this God looks for, we should do it the best we can; If we would ha…

As a Christian must pray all manner of prayer, so in all places (1 Timothy 2:8). I will that men pray every where: And if every where, then in their closets: This divine incense should perfume every room, and should ascend to Heaven from chambers as well as churches: Any place n…

It is not without cause also that he adds, that God who now promises to be merciful to Jacob, says, that he redeemed Abraham: for he therein brings the people to the beginning of the Church, that considering God's power, which from time to time was manifested by so many famous e…

In like manner you ind Joshua recording the Providences of God when at the brink of the grave: they were the subject of his dying discourse. Joshua 24. And I cannot but think it a sweet close to the life of any Christian: It must needs sweeten a death-bed to recount there the se…

This his nature, this his eternal Holiness requireth, that the guilty be by no means cleared. So Joshua instructs the people in the nature of this Holiness of God (Joshua 24:19): You cannot serve the Lord, for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God, he will not forgive your tran…

A righteousness was to be brought in, that might answer the justice of God, and abide its trial. Of what nature this righteousness must be, the Scripture declares; and that as well in the revelation it makes of the holiness of God (Psalm 5:4, 5; Joshua 24:19; Habakkuk 1:13) as o…

§ 6 His nativity and education was in Ur of the Chaldees (Genesis 11:28, 31). This place is said to be, on the other side of the flood, [in non-Latin alphabet]; or the River (Joshua 24:2), that is, from the Land of Canaan on the other side of the great River Euphrates eastward.…

Yea some of them were great sinners, or guilty of great and signal miscarriages. Some before their conversion, as Abraham who was an Idolater, Joshua 24:2, 3. and Paul who was a Persecutor and a Blasphemer. Some after their conversion.

1. Labor to have your hearts always affected with a due sense of the infinite perfections of the divine nature in all our approaches to him, especially of his sovereign power, holiness, immensity, and omnipresence; and this will produce in us also a sense of infinite distance fr…

Although God had lately wrought so wonderfully for the deliverance of his church, and had shown so great mercy towards it, as for its sake even to destroy all the rest of the world, and although he had lately renewed and established his covenant of grace with Noah and his sons;…

Doubtless nothing at all. Under this naked consideration of the properties of God: justice will make men fly and hide, Genesis 3, Isaiah 2:21; patience renders them obdurate, Ecclesiastes 8:11; holiness utterly deters them from all thoughts of approaching him, Joshua 24:19. What…

How forward were the Israelites! O they would do the whole will of God, they run away with the general notion: Yea, but says Joshua (Joshua 24:19): You cannot serve the Lord: for he is a holy God, he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions, nor your sins. We wi…

Tamerlain wrote down all the Memorable deeds of his Soldiers, whom he afterwards preferred to places of dignity. Gods service is most eligible; let us make Ioshua's Choice, Josh. 24:15. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

USE. O! then let the word of God be ever in sight, as your Comforter and Counsellor; the more we do so, the more shall we walk in the fear of God: You are not to walk according to the course of this world, but according to Rule, and therefore you are not to walk rashly and indel…

3. Let it not be a rash, but a serious resolution, all difficulties being well weighed. In a fit or pang of devotion men will resolve for God, but it is soon gone (Joshua 24:19-20). We will serve the Lord, for he is our God: and Joshua said, You cannot serve the Lord, for he is…

As (John 6:34), Ever more give us of this Bread of Life, but when Christ told them what it was to have this Bread of Life, then they were offended. So the Israelites, when they considered holiness and the service of God in the abstract, O! We will serve the Lord say they; says J…

3. It is a good help against slightness; we are apt to put off God with anything, and therefore we need to rouse up ourselves to serve him with diligence. "You cannot serve the Lord for he is a jealous God, etc." (Joshua 24:19). It is another matter to serve the Lord than the wo…

It was well done to come to a purpose and resolution, but O that there were such a heart within them, says God, that they would fear me, etc. (Joshua 24:19) We will serve the Lord, say the people; you cannot serve the Lord, says Joshua. Do you know what it is?

The holy God has newly sent me back from the sides of eternity to tell you, that one Christ is worth ten worlds. It is a thing whereof you have been heretofore advised with frequent, solemn, lively warnings, from the eternal God: as Joshua could say, in Joshua 24:27, Behold, thi…

He presses in upon men by the prevailing work of his grace in his ordinances, before they look after him or their own welfare, prevents their imaginations and desires. When [reconstructed: they are] snorting in their sins, sit down securely, well satisfied with their careless an…

Paul indeed is called a young man (Acts 7:58), yet his bringing up at the feet of Gamaliel, the largeness and depth of his learning and knowledge in arts and tongues (1 Corinthians 14:18), together with the commission he was entrusted by the High Priest, for the persecuting of t…

For to walk before the Lord required in Abraham's Covenant (Genesis 17:1) is to walk in all the ways of the Lord, to fear and love him (Deuteronomy 10:12-13). And Samuel (1 Samuel 12:22), Joshua (Joshua 24:22-25), and Mary (Luke 1:55), and Zechariah (Luke 1:70, 72, 73) refer to…

Persons are two ways in Covenant with God, externally by visible profession, and conditionally, not in reference to the Covenant, but to the thing promised in Covenant, which none obtains, but such as fulfill the condition of the Covenant: For consent of parties, promise and res…

Both are false, as is evident, [illegible] they say in the issue what we say, and contradict themselves, to wit, that believers, and only believers, are these for whom Christ died. We before said, the promises are conditionally to all within the Visible Church, but so as the con…

The rod beats out the dust and moth of sin; a child indulged and humoured in wickedness, will prove a burden instead of a blessing: David cockered Adonijah, 1 Kings 1. 6. His Father had not displeased him at any time, saying, why have you done so? and he afterwards was a grief o…

And therefore when our hearts promise anything to God, whether openly or secretly, we must desire God's strength to enable us for performance, as David having promised, I will keep your statutes, prays, do not forsake me for too long (Psalm 119:8). Indeed we must in this case de…

And: when you said, Seek my face, my heart answered to you, O Lord I will seek your face. And: I have applied my heart to fulfill your statutes always, even to the end (Acts 11:23; Joshua 24:15; Psalm 119:57; Psalm 119:106; Psalm 27:8; Psalm 119:112). The third part is an endeav…

But this is not all, but besides this, it is said, they met every family apart, last verse; so that they did not only meet when many families could get together, but every family had a mourning by itself, sometimes no family joining with them, only themselves, their wives, and c…

Q. 8. What are the attributes which usually are ascribed to him in his works, or the acts of his will? A. (k) Goodness, (l) power, (m) justice, (n) mercy, (o) holiness, (p) wisdom, and the like, which he delights to exercise towards his creatures, for the praise of his glory. (k…

Q. 8. What are the attributes which usually are ascribed to him in his works, or the acts of his will? A. (k) Goodness, (l) power, (m) justice, (n) mercy, (o) holiness, (p) wisdom, and the like, which he delights to exercise towards his creatures, for the praise of his glory. (k…