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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
of
the
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
:
It
was
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
destruction
upon
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
no
doubt 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
of
us
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