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Use 1 Is Christ the leader of his Church? Then seek •o him upon all occasions; never go into the field without a leader; let him go with us Psal. 85.8.¹ I will hear what the Lord will say. The Camp goes to the General for direction. Go to Christ you doubting hearts; you say, trouble is coming, but see what Christ saith, and follow him; learn the watch-word, Heb. 12.2.² Looking to Jesus the Author and finisher of our faith, when troubles come, look up to Christ, and say, our eyes are towards thee. Oh look up to Christ to be guided, Psal. 119.125.³ I am thy servant, O give me understanding; so in all weakness go to Christ and say, I am thy servant, teach me to keep thy Commandments, Jos. 10.6.⁴ Stack not thy hand, &c. when the Gibeonites had made a league with Joshua, all the Nations of the kind conspired against them, and mark whither they send, to Joshua ⟨p. 19⟩to Gilgal, saying, slack not thine hand, but come and help us; so it is with a poor sinner, that hath made a league with Christ, all the rabble of Ruffians follow him, satan by temptations laboureth to entangle him, the world by scoffs and reproaches labours to withdraw him from God and a good course; now send to Joshua to the Camp in Gilgal, send to the Lord Jesus Christ, and say, slack not thy hand from thy servant, but save and help me, Psal. 80.1, 2.⁵ Give eat O Shepherd of Israel, but mark what follows, before Ephraim, Benjamin and Manasseh, come and help us: the meaning lies thus, it is a phrase taken from the Children of Israel in War, 3. lay Eastward, 3. Westward, 3. Southward, and the Ark in the midst. Now these three Tribes Ephraim, Benjamin and Manasseh, lay behind the Ark, and before them Christ riseth, before weak sinful cr tures Christ stirs himself