Joshua 6

Lord, I can say but little, but I put in my surety, Christ shall answer for me, O look upon that blood which speaks better things than the blood of Abel; Christ is my Priest, his blood is my sacrifice, his Divine Nature is my altar. As Rahab was to show the scarlet thread in the…

This thirtieth verse contains the first example of this rank; namely, the example of Joshuas faith, and of those that went with him into Canaan. And their faith is commended unto us by a notable fact of theirs; the causing to fall the walls of Jericho: the History whereof we may…

Thus dealt he always with his children; delivering Lot out of Sodom, Genesis 19. Rahab out of Jericho: Joshua 6:22. The Kenites from the Amalekites, 1 Samuel 15.

And therefore in the new Testament, Rahab hath no wrong done her, by this title. For, it is the thing that Joshua intended, to show what a one she had been: and therefore in speaking of her to the spies, he bids them go into That harlots house, Joshua 6.22; using such an Article…

When God first brought them into his land, which was to be the seat of his ordinances and solemn worship, the first town that they came to was Jericho. This therefore God anathematized or devoted to perpetual destruction, with a curse upon him that should attempt its re-edificat…

An Angel did not use to receive any worship from men; and he accepts the worship, and commands him to loose his shoe from his foot, for the place whereon he stood was holy; verse 15. And the same Person (Joshua 6:2) is called Jehovah; and there he gives him orders how he should…

So (2 Chronicles 17:9), (1 Samuel 7:16): Samuel went in a circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh. And (Joshua 6:3): You shall besiege Jericho. The wrath of God and an army of terrors blocked up poor Job, and stormed him.

And in the other instance which the Apostle mentions, verse 25: Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way? The Apostle refers to a declarative judgment, in that particular testimony which wa…

Christ did not chuse the eloquent Orators, or men of Authority in the Courts of Kings and Emperours, but twelve poor Mechanicks, and Fisher-men; and these not sent together in a troop, but some to take one Countrey to conquer it, and some another: the most ridiculous course (in…

And duties performed in faith (without which prayer it selfe is not accepted) they goe not without a spirituall blessing, though Nature and Art might performe the same for the outward worke. The trailing of the weapons of the Israelites, and their Military March, both in silence…