A Body of Practical Divinity

The thing I would note is this, That it is no small Blessing to be delivered from Places of Idolatry. God speaks of it no less than Ten times in the Old Testament, I brought you out of the Land of Egypt; an Idolatrous Place. Had there been no Iron Furnace in Egypt, yet there being so many Altars there, and False Gods, it was a great Privilege to Israel to be delivered out of Egypt. Joshua reckons it among the chief and most memorable Mercies of God to Abraham, that he brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans, where Abraham's Ancestors served strange Gods, Josh. 24.2, 3. 'Tis well for the Plant that is set in a bad Soil, to be transplanted into a ⟨p. 258⟩better, where it may grow and flourish. So when any are planted among Idolaters, 'Tis a Mercy when they are removed and transplanted into Sihon, where are the Silver Drops of Gods Word to make them grow in Holiness.

The thing I would note is this, That it is no small Blessing to be delivered from Places of Idolatry. God speaks of it no less than Ten times in the Old Testament, I brought you out of the Land of Egypt; an Idolatrous Place. Had there been no Iron Furnace in Egypt, yet there being so many Altars there, and False Gods, it was a great Privilege to Israel to be delivered out of Egypt. Ioshua reckons it among the chief and most memorable Mercies of God to Abraham, that he brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans, where Abraham's Ancestors served strange Gods, Iosh. 24.2, 3. 'Tis well for the Plant that is set in a bad Soil, to be transplanted into a ⟨p. 258⟩better, where it may grow and flourish. So when any are planted among Idolaters, 'Tis a Mercy when they are removed and transplanted into Sihon, where are the Silver Drops of Gods Word to make them grow in Holiness.

Quest. Wherein doth it appear that it is such a great Blessing to be delivered from Places of Idolatry?