An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth, & tenth chapters of…

Concerning Gilgal. ¹Their Idolatrous Priests told them (as 'tis probable) that that place was a holy place, and surely God that had appeared so to them there would accept ⟨p. 270⟩of their services in that place rather than any other, and so though God had after chose another place, yet still they doted upon this place, [Gilgal] and that which was so famous for Gods Worship became as infamous for superstition and wickedness.

Concerning Gilgal. ¹Their Idolatrous Priests told them (as 'tis propable) that that place was a holy place, and surely God that had appeared so to them there would accept ⟨p. 270⟩of their services in that place rather than any other, and so though God had after chose another place, yet still they doted upon this place, [Gilgal] and that which was so famous for Gods Worship became as infamous for superstition and wickedness.

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Polanus upon the text compares that Town in Germany, ¹[Wittenberg] to this Gilgal. Those places where the Lord hath been more gracious to people, the Devil seeks to corrupt those places most of all; as in Wittenberg was the beginning of Reformation by the means of Luther, and now (saith he) the Devil hath made it the Theatre of divers Heresies, and still makes it more and more; that very place which was a place of Gods mercy to the Country: so here, that place that was the greatest place of mercy,²