Joshua 5

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…

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.

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.

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…