A RF.FCÓRMAT;T,ON SERMON. Lord has sworn, that the Lord will have war with Ama lek from generation to generation." Not only the ceremonies of the Jewish church, but the civil affairs of that nation, in ,many instances, were typical of the christian state : Their release from the house of bondage, and their. march through the wilder- ness to Canaan was a shadow of our rescue from the slavery ofsin, and our travels through this desert world to the heavenly country. Their rebellions and murmur- ings, their fiery serpents and destructive plagues which swept them away by thousands,- were but a figure of our sins and sorrows, our. backslidings and divine judgments. This is evident to those who will read and believe what St. Paul writes to the Corinthians; 1 Cor. x. I -1i. Where, after he had briefly recounted their transgressions and punishments, he asserts verse 11. that " all these things happened unto them for examples," or types, as it is in the original ; or these things fell out typically, Tv7rixwc, as the Alexandrine manuscript in the royal library bids us read it; " and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are corne." The enemies they met with in their way, represent those sinners that'vex the christian church.in its journey through this mortal state ; and Amalek may well figure out the biggest impieties,` the most daring and profane wretches, against whom it: concerns a christian to make his utmost èffòrts : For these were the people that came first out against Israel, just after their escape from the hand of Pharaoh : They carne out with violence and without any provocation; they were those against whom the " Lord sware hé would have everlasting war," verse 16. or such whose "hand was lifted up againstithe thróne of the Lord," as some translate this phrase. It, is a de- scription of sins and sinners of a bold and impious cha- racter, that fight directly against heaven and :holiness, against the light of nature and the laws of Gód and na- trans : Such as the Lord hath resolved that:" the remem- brance of them shall utterly be blotted out, verse 14. It is against such iniquities and such transgressors, im- moralities and wickednesses of the biggest size that you have taken up arms, who appoint and attend this season of 'worship : and my soul shall rejoice ifye may be this day animated to pursue thewar. Now let us take a survey of the several persons that are
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