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…

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…

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.

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?

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: 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…