Jofhua a type ofC%rif, 3. He maydeferre the promife but never deny it or himfelfe. Wait(fill. I I I. Is Christ the true Iofhu: ? r. Acknow- ledge him our Captaine and head. 2. Submit our Pelves unto him,as I fraell unto Iofhria, IooIT,.1. j 1.17 . All that thou commandcft us we will doe, and whether thou fendeft us we will goe;as we obeyedMofes in all things fo will weobey thee. 3. Follow him as our guide into that etcrnall tea, and depend on him for cur inhe- ritance there.v'Iofes cannot carry us in,for himfelfemuff onely fee the land. So wee may fee the land of promife a farre offin the Law;but onely jefus canbringus in,for, i . He alone is entred already to take pofhe4lion forus. 2. Hehath undertaken to carry us through our wilder- neffe toour Canaan. I V. What conditions we mull obferve in comming to heaven, as they in comming to the good land. i. The land is theirs and poffeflion given, but many Canaanites and Jebufites muff dwell in the Landunder tribute flill, ch, r 5.63, and r 6. 10. So notwithflanding 1) all our promifesofreft, and poffeffìon ofpeace ofcoi fci- ence, in this world are fome yea may Canaanites and Jebufites tomolefi Godspeople. But at laf} our Iófhua leaves never an enemy untubdued. There !hall nothing which is unholyget within the walls ofthat City ; bee fees the lai enemy deftroyed, z. They muff not come into that land till they were circumcifed;for all the forty yeares in the wilderneffe they were not circum- cifed,ch, 5.3.7, Till the fhameofEgypt was remocved veri. 9 ,lofbtia cannot bring them into the protniied land.Which fhatne(as luni;ts thinks)was the prophane- neffe of' their fathers contracted in Egypt, whereby they grew careleffe ofGods ordinances. OurIo_iva brings notust into our Canaan fo long as wee are pro- phane and uncircumcifed ; till he have circumcifed our hearts, andwebe holyand fanaifiied : for without flail E 3 be 53 Vfe. 3. Duties we ovv toChrist out Mjillsa. ' t e. 4. Conditions to be obfcrved in going tohea- vcn.
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