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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
of
sin,
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
if
ye may
be
this
day
animated
to pursue
the
war.
Now let us
take a
survey
of
the
several persons
that
are