Joshua 24

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 GOOD MANS RESOLUTION. Josh. 24:15. But as for MEE and MY HOVSE we will serve the Lord.

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…