A history of the work of redemption. Containing the outlines of a body of…

Those terrible judgements that were executed in the congregation after their turning back from K•desh B•rnea, in the matter of K••ah, and the matter of Poor, were chiefly on the old generation▪ whom God consumed in the wilderness. Those rebellions were chiefly among the elders of the congregation, who were of the older generation, that God had given up to their hearts lust; and they walked in their own counsels, and God was grieved with their manners forty years in the wilderness.

But that this younger congregation were eminent for piety, appears by all their history. The former generation were wicked, and were followed with cu•ses; but this was holy, and wonderful blessings followed them. God did great things for them; he sough• for them, and gave them the possession of Canaan. And it is God'• manner, when he hath very great mercies to bestow on a visible people, first to fit them for them, and •hen to bestow them on them. So it was here: They believed in God, and by […] overcame […] and Og, and the giants of Canaan; and are commended for cleaving unto the Lord: Josh xxiii.8. Joshua says unto them, "Cleave unto the Lord, as ye have done unto this day" And so Israel did all the while that generation lived. But whe• Joshua and all that generation were de•d, there arose another […] that knew not the Lord. This pious generation showed • laudable and fervent […] for God on several occasions; on occasion o• Achan's sin; but especially when they suspected the two tribes and a half had set up an altar in opposition to the altar of bur•t offering. There never was any generation of Israel that so much good and so little evil is mentioned of as this generation. It is further observable, that in the time of this generation was the second general circumcision whereby the reproach of Israel was fully rolled away, and they became pure; nd when afterwards they were polluted by Archan hey purged themselves again.