Joshua 2

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…

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…

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)?