WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE THE BEDFORD UNION :- [SECOND AMERICAN, FROM THE SECOND LONDON EDITION.] THESE THINGS I WILL THAT THOU AFFIRM CONSTANTLY, THAT THEY WHICH HAVE BELIEVED IN GOD MIGHT BE GOOD AND PROFITABLE UNTO MEN. BUT AVOID TOOLISH QUESTIONS, AND GENEALOGIES, AND CONTENTIONS, AND STRIVINGS ABOUT THE LAW ; FOR FROM Sidner's PRESS, 1814. gt MISTAKES CONCERNING THE NUMBER OF THE Wot ye not what the Scripture saith of Elias ? How he ma- keth intercession to God against Israel, saying, Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars : and I am left alone, and they seek my life. But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there ; and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou Aleddest from the face of Esau thy brother. Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange Gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments: and let us arise, and go up to Bethel ; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of tress, and was with me in the way which I went.-Gen. THE NATURE OF GENUINE RELIGION. And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh; that they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do I fear the Lord from my youth.-1 KINGS Xviii. 12. For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make THE CONDEMNATION OF SELF-WILL. Should it be according to hy mind?-JOB xxxiv. 33. THE PRIVILEGES OF THE RIGHTEOUS. For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace SERMON XIII. Page 269. xvii. 15. CONCUPISCENCE PUNISHED. And there went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth. And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers; and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp. And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people? and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague. And he called the name of that place Kibroth-Hattaaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted,-NUMBERS xi. 31-34. |
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