Judges 2

2. There is but one omnipotent power. If there be two omnipotents, then we must always suppose a contest between these two; that which one would do, the other power being equal would oppose, and so all things would be brought into a confusion. If a ship should have two pilots of…

First, they lifted up their voice and wept. The word is Baca, and from that, the place (Judges 2:5) is called Bochin, where the people are said to lift up their voice and weep, when the Angel reproved them. In Psalm 84:6, we read of the valley of Baca, which some translate, the…

Indeed, idolatry is very usually set forth in Scripture by some of those visible actions which some of these false worshippers used to express their devotion towards their false deities, as bowing the body to them (Joshua 23:16): Served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them.…

Jacob in his journey would neither go to Laban, nor come from him, without a warrant. Jehoshaphat in the business of Ramoth-Gilead, would not stir a foot until he had counsel from God; he sends not only to the captain of the host, but to the prophet of the Lord, Inquire, I pray…

The less the thing is that might draw you, the greater the corruption of your heart, that like a mighty stream transports you to the practice; so that there is no reason to be rendered, but only the wretchedness of your own spirit, why you fall into such an evil. When the Lord c…

Jacob wept and prayed (Hosea 12:3). The people of Israel wept and offered sacrifice (Judges 2:5). Gospel-mourning puts a man upon duty; the reason is, because in true sorrow there is a mixture of hope, and hope puts the soul upon the use of means.

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…

Samuel would convince them of that very sin above the rest, of choosing them a king (1 Samuel 12), and thereupon they confessed it. So (Judges 2:2, 4) when they saw they had gone against God's charge, in that particular sin, that wounded them to the heart. So when our Savior wou…