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Useful instructions for a professing people in times of great security and degeneracy
Useful instructions for a professing people in times of great security and degeneracy: delivered in several sermons on solemn occasions: / by Mr. Samuel Willard Pastor of the Church of Christ at Groton. ; [Eight lines of Scripture texts]
printed by Samuel Green, 1673
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. What Shiloh was, we have it in the words of the Text in two things.
1. It was Gods place: i. e. a peculiar place which he had chosen to himself, his chief place.
2. It was the place where God set his name at the first: i. e. It was the first Tent, or Tabernacle where God see up his Ordinances, and called his name upon it, after he had given to his people Israel possession of the land of Canaan: as we shall find in Joshua 18. 1. here it was that after the Ark had been unsettled for 40 years and upward in the wilderness, […] first chose it a fixed place, here was God worshipped first after he had granted a settlement to his people Israel. The Tabernacle was a Testimony of Gods presence with his people, hither the Tribes came up to worship, here it was that God manifested his great glory, by this it was that God declared Israel to be a peculiar people to himself, so that Shiloh was not only a part of God dwelling place, for so were all the Tribes, nor only a habitation of Gods people, for so were all other Cities, Towns and Villages where Israel dwelt, but it was the place of Gods manifesting himself to his people, his especial habitation.
2. It was the place where God set his name at the first: i. e. It was the first Tent, or Tabernacle where God see up his Ordinances, and called his name upon it, after he had given to his people Israel possession of the land of Canaan: as we shall find in Joshua 18. 1. here it was that after the Arke had been unsettled for 40 years and upward in the wilderness, 〈…〉 first chose it a fixed place, here was God worshiped first after he had granted a settlement to his people Israel. The Tabernacle was a Testimony of Gods presence with his people, hither the Tribes came up to worship, here it was that God manifested his great glory, by this it was that God declared Israel to be a peculiar people to himself, so that Shiloh was not only a part of God dwelling place, for so were all the Tribes, nor only a habitation of Gods people, for so were all other Cities, Towns and Villages where Israel dwelt, but it was the place of Gods manifesting himself to his peole, his especial habitation.