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

XIV. God's preserving his church and the true religion from being wholly extinct in the frequent apostasies of the Israelites in the time of the judges. How prone was that people to forsake the true God, that had done such wonderful things for them, and to fall into idolatry▪ and how did the land, from time to time, seem to be almost over run with idolatry! But yet God never suffered his true worship to be totally rooted out: his tabernacle stood, the ark was preserved the book of the law was kept from being destroyed, God's priesthood was upheld, and God still had a church ••ong the people; and time after time, when religion seemed to ⟨p. 69⟩be almost gone, and it was come to the last extremity, then God granted a revival, and sent some angel or prophet, or raised up some eminent person, to be an instrument of their reformation.

XIV. God's preserving his church and the true religion from being wholly extinct in the frequent apostasies of the Israelites in the time of the judges. How prone was that people to forsake the true God, that had done such wonderful things for them, and to fall into idolatry▪ and how did the land, from time to time, seem to be almost over run with idolatry! But yet God never suffered his true worship to be totally rooted out: his tabernacle stood, the ark was p•eserved the book of the law was kept from being destroyed, God's priesthood was upheld, and God still had a church ••ong the people; and time after time, when religion seemed to ⟨p. 69⟩be almost gone, and it was come to the last extremity, then God granted a revival, and sent some angel or prophet, or raised up some eminent person, to be an instrument of their reformation.