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

Thus David subdued the whole land of Canaan, strictly so called. But then that was not one half, nor quarter, of the land God had promised to their fathers. The land that God had often promised to their fathers, included all the countries from the river o• Egypt to the river Euphrates. These were the bounds of the land promised to Abraham, Gen. xv.18. "In that same day the Lord made a covenant with Abraham, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, […] river of Egypt, unto the great river, the river Euphrates▪ So again God promised at Mount Sinai, Exod. xxiii.31. "And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee." •o again. Deut. xi.24. "Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall •read, shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea, shall your coast be." Again, the same promise is made to Joshua: Josh. i.3.4. "Every place that the soul of your feet shall tread upon, have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses; from the wilderness and this Lebanon, even or to the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the […], and unto the great sea, towards the going down of the sun, shall be your coast." But the land that Joshua gave the people the possession of, was but a little part of this land. And the people never had had the possession of it, till now when God gave it them by David.

Thus David subdued the whole land of Canaan, strictly so called. But then that was not one half, nor quarter, of the land God had promised to their fathers. The land that God had often promised to their fathers, included all the countries from the river o• Egypt to the river Euphrates. These were the bounds of the land promised to Abraham,