enter into covenant with you to spare youk. And, if your submission to him provoke the hostility of the world against you, he will come to your support, and will save you by a great deliverance1; and will make you eternal monuments of his power and grace. Let me also recommend to you the example of Rahab. She cast herself and all her family on the mercy of Joshua; and bound the cord wherewith she had let down the spies from the walls of Jericho, about her window, as the sign of her affiance in the pledge that had been given her. For this faith of hers, and for her works consequent upon it, was she commended both by St. Paul, and St. James m. And, if you also with like faith cast yourselves upon the Lord Jesus, and, like her, evince also by your conduct the sincerity of your faith, you " shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation," and have a portion accorded to you amongst the Israel of God for ever and ever.]
k Josh. ix. 15. } Josh. x. 4.
m Josh. vi. 22, 25. with Heb. xi. 31. and Jam. ii. 25.
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MOSEs' SOLEMN CHARGE TO ISRAEL.
Deut. iv. 7 — 9. What nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for ? And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous, as all this law, which I set before you this dag ? Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes Iiave seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life ; but teach them thy sons, and thy sons sons.
PRACTICAL religion, however approved in theory, is not always admired when exhibited to our view. Not but that it has a beauty in it which commends itself to those who have a spiritual dis- cernment ; but it forms too strong a contrast with the ways of the world to gain its favour : the men of this world " love darkness rather than light ;" and therefore agree to reprobate as visionary and gloomy, whatever opposes their evil habits. Nevertheless " the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil, that is understanding :" and, wherever any people are enabled to maintain an uniform and con- sistent conduct, there their very enemies must honour
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