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…

All the conquests of princes redound to the advantage of that place, where they [reconstructed: fix their residence]: He is King of the world, but for the sake of Zion. Christ did manage this charge anciently for his people; when Joshua had passed over Jordan, and first entered…

Yet it was not without great reason that the Lord should now establish them by solemn Covenant to be a people to himself, because the nation had been much degenerated from the spirit and ways of Abraham in Egypt, and had broken that Covenant by their idolatries there (Ezekiel 20…

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.

And he is called their [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], Prince, Ruler and Captain, or Author of their salvation, on several accounts. 1. Of his authority and right to rule over them in order to their salvation; so he appeared to Joshua, as [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] (Joshua 5:14),…

The Angel of Gods presence who. Joshua 5:13, 14, 15. Captain of the Lords host described.

And as it was the glory of the people of old while they walked in the steps of the faith of Abraham: so it was the carnal boast of their degenerate posterity. Hence have we so often mention of those who were uncircumcised, in the way of reproach and contempt; and when they renew…

In an extraordinary manner, God appointed it to be carried before all the people, when the waters of Jordan were divided by his power, whereof that was a pledge (Joshua 3:15), which the people on their own heads going afterwards to imitate in their wars with the Philistines, rec…

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.

That things are not done by might and by power, but by the spirit of the Lord. When he appears against the most potent, their hearts melt within them, and there is no more spirit left in them, as 'tis said of the mighty inhabitants of Canaan (Joshua 5:1). Thirdly, we should make…

Not that the church of God cannot be a church, without this Sacrament. For it may want Baptisme for a time, and yet remaine a true church; as well as the church of the Iewes in auncient times, wanted circumcision, for the space of fourtie yeares (Joshua 5:6), and yet ceased not…

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…