A REFORMATION SERMON. '5r7 ,placed in their proper posts and offices in this warfare .against Amalek. Here is Moses, Aaron, and Hur, Já- shua, and the chosen men of .Israel. iVioses the law -giver, the supreme magistrate :. ".Ile was king in Jeshurun, when the heads ofthe people and the tribes of Israel were gathered together ;" :Deut. xxxiii. 4, 5. He gave orders to Joshua to.fight the Amalekites, while himself stood on the top of the hill, avith, the rod of God .in his hand. Thismay be .called -a rod of autho- rity and command, whereby his orders were continued.: It was a sceptre in the hand of Moses, and the most pow- erful one that ever was held:by a prince : Itwas a rod for signal, like an ensign or banner to encourage the soldier: It was.a rod of faith, for by faith alone it could produce wonders : Wonders of destructionupon Egypt, wonders ;of division upon rocks and Red seas, wonders of deliver- ance for Israel, and all this without any natural force of its own : for it received all its power from faith, sand from the presence of divinity with it. It was lifted up constantly from an eminent place where Moses stood, whence the holy army might see it, and obey orders, and renew their courage in battle. Though the hands of Moses seem to have been lifted up alternately, and not together, yet because the lifting up of the hands some- times in scripture signifies prayer, therefore the constant fervency of intercession may be also implied here ; 'and nodoubt but these earnest requests to heaven, which this man of God offered upon the mount, while the people were fighting below,' had a mighty influence on the la- bour and success of the day. Blessed be God, we have a Moses in the midst ofus on the top of the hill, a queen of a manly soul upon the throne of our British Israel ; She has by her royal procla- mations given order to fight with Amalek, to oppose and suppress the armies ,of iniquity : She still. holds up the rod of command; and it may .be well called the rod of God, not only because all authority is derived from God as the original source of government; but because here it is held up in his quarrel too. It shall be called a rod of faith and of power, for it has wrought wonders at a distance : This the fields of Blenheim witness, and the plains of Ramillies ; wonders of rescue for the German empire, and wonders of liberty for mankind, Her hand L
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