An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters…

Joshua concludes the story of the people of Israel, in their passage to Canaan, with the highest testimonies of Gods justice and faithfulness; though God dealt with them so variously in the wilderness that they often murmured in their tents, as if he had done them wrong, yet in the close you shall find, how exact and punctual the Lord was with them, (Josh. 21. 45.) There failed not ought of any good thing which the Lord had spoken to the house of Israel, all came to pass: And in that other text, Josh. 23. 14 Behold this day I am going the way of all the earth, and you know in all your hearts, and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things, which the Lord your God spake concerning you, all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof. How admirably just was God in his word? If a man promise many things, we take it well if he perform some of the chief, and them in the chief, though some what may fail. God promised many things, and performed all, and which is more, all of every one, of those many things promised. The texts compared, make this out, the one saying, That not one thing failed of all the good things, which God spake concerning them. And the other, That not ought of any good thing failed. So then, they had every good thing in kind, with each particular part and degree of every good thing: And for the truth of all this, Joshua makes his appeal to themselves, and to that in themselves, which was best able to determine it, All their hearts, and all their souls; which words do not only refer to every person, as if the meaning were, The hearts and souls of you all; but rather to all that is in every person, All their hearts, and all their souls, that is, understandings, memories, consciences. affections, yea senses, their eyes and ears, their hands and mouths, could bring in witness from their several operations, to this great truth. And surely God in the end will deal as well with every Israelite, as he did with all Israel: ⟨p. 123⟩A time will come, it will come shortly, when every Saint shall say, in all their hearts and in all their souls, that not one thing nor ought of any one good thing, which the Lord hath said concerning them, hath failed. I shut up this, in the words of Christ to his Disciples, when they were amused about that act of his, the washing of their feet, (