Joshua 22

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),…

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…

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…