1 The ſame Kiith enabled 37-/es eminently, and thoſe off vers, 45 Aaron, Caleb, Foſhna, &c. for all Tre! believed nor, 1 Cor. 1-2. 5. yet for the Faithtul's lake were thev kept trom drownins., after Moſes had, at God's Command, (when the [j.o!ites were rea- dy to be fallen on by the Egyptians) lifted up his Rod, and ftretct: ed his Hand over rhe Red-Sea, when God imiediatelv by an Ett- wind, divided it, made the Waters to ſtand up on cach tide !ike Wails of Chryſtal, and the bottom of it to be drv; then entree If:ſes and Trae! into the empty and dry fpace, and walked throush It on dry Gro:ird, and not a Soul of 7 rac! mifcarryed, but mile
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the mean time the Fg yptizrs, with their King, purtuins 71:7 fo; their Ruine, find their own, for prefirpouontly afpopturins 75 purſue them throuzh this miracutons fu, muided by Soak and ngt by Faith, and thinking to p.fs a5 fate as Fro! alien they had x: for it, God troubles them by his Anve!s i" * mot1or, makes Ui
drive heavily ; and havinz brovoht them 1oto fins Pie un the miigdts
of the Channel, the Chryital Walis difoive, and the: Waters ;
turning to their tiud Nature, ovickly overivhedn'd and iwall |
up all that Hoſt, fo as not one of thei: vnbeliovins, profiiqryr
ous, perſecuting Wretches cſciped. God's great Work in this, a:
to Iſrael, had a double meantn:s ;, zrcval, their Salvriion from tho om p
Egyptians ; myſtical, their bap? {1m Tritiattn int) the Crenaunt of God by Moſes ; though all of ticm hid not Uaith wnferunce, yet profefſed Faith in God ; and the Dotrine 35/25 brouzht from him was accounted ſuthcient to attain both, 1 Cr, 10. 2
zo By taith x the walls of Joricho Jell down, af ter they were compalied avour foven davs:
x This Divine Faith exercited by 7oſhwa and rue! after their en- trance into the Land of Promiſe (woo did on God's Word and Con- mand, compaſs the impregnable Wall: ot 7er:ch2 once every day for fix days together, and on the ſeventh day teven tines, ſounding with Trumpets of Rams-Horns, and at lift giving a ſhout) brouzht down theſe Walls flat to the Ground by the Aimighty Power of Gee, to whom they were as nothing, 7. 5. 20, Faith in all this realized God's Promiſe to them, reached forth t!teir Love to him and O':coi- ence in all Particulars reouired by him, elorifving God, as the gre! Captain of their Hoſts, as he revealed himfelf, 7ofh. <, 12. 14,15 committing the Work and Event to him, who, by the Breatit ©; Faith, doth crumble down thete Walls before them.
31 By faith the harlot y- Rahab periſhed nor ' with |
them || that believed not, when © the had received the {pies with peace.
y By the ſame Goſpe!-Faith Rahab, who as the 7ews read- the Word, 7oſh. 2. 1. "IN was an AReſs, and kept an Houſe of Entertainment, and fo came to lodge the Spies: Or, 2s the S-ttr.z- zint read it, and the Holy Ghoſt confirms it here, and 7am-s 25. was a publick Harlot, who gate her Livelthood by the Proftitu- tion of her Body, as well as the ſale of Meat .and Drink; fo no- torious a Sinner as ſhe, and a Canzanite too, was preſerved tram the Deſtruction that was inflicted by the Iſraelites on the unb-licying.
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tom, ad viſin; 3 Z them wit thev were to do in order to their ſafe- ty, Joſh. 2: 3, log to the end. Thic ground of all this, was her Faith in God's Promitc of giving Canaan to Iſrael, confirmed bY
me -reat Works ſhe heard God had done for them, and her own Exnettation of Good oniy 1n the Portion of God's People, to whom ſhe defired to be united, which was afterwards accompliſh cd. Net- ther doth Par! and Tames contradi& each other concerning her Faith and Works, 7ames 2.25, For ſhe was e:: empted from De- ſtru*t1on by the fime Faith by which ſhe was juſtitied 3; and her Faith «was juſtified to be ſound and true, by ker carriaze to the Spies, for it was a full Demonſtration of her Faith in Ged.
-2 Ard eo what ſhall I more ſay ? for b the time would tail me © tell of Gideon, Klub of Barak, and of Samfon, and of jeprhe, and of * David alto, and Sa mue!., and-of the Prophets.
a Here the Spirit puts a Pericd to the Indy&cm, by an Expoſtu- lation, as it he had ſaid, Why do I ſpcak of ſo many Examples of Faith ? te Old Tettament rs full of tom ; but here's Prot enouzh, Vil ſay no more. b Fr time if 1ito and Wiiting would be ſooner gore, than a fv!i Account can be given © al] the notable Eftetts of Faith by all thcte Worthics who might ht te named; vet he would ive ſome gencral hints of Perſcts ard of the Works of Faith, which he judzcth ſuificic elit, and {0 rameth pronifcucutiv, and not 1n or- der of time wherein the exiſiee. He nameth Fcur ſudges, one kinz, and one Proper, 20 extraordinary Prophets .1n a bu! k, whoſe Hiſtories vou have, ©: Giavmm, Judz. c9. 5. 11, &e. Barah, ] udg, 4+ 5, O0O, Sambr, Tudo. 13.14.15, 15. Jeptha, Juds, It, Da-
41d's Hiſtory anc a $.rre! R 1a the farit 293d ſfecon d Boksof Samuel, and the firit of Chr! los, Tie whoſe Faith,
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are. as their Names, enumerated promiſcucutly ; fome of tem a- grccing fo particulir Porfons, others to them: all.
33 Who thfo:gh faith c ilubdued + 10m5,mvrought rightzouln eſs &, obtaited & promites, opp 24 f the INGUITIS Or 1JVGNS.