<p>This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 Excerpt: ...aua the flit, and the snare are before him, and if he escape one, he inevitably falls into the other, Jer. 48. 43, 44. Note, Sin brings men into straits; wise and good men often distress themselves by their own folly. 1. He begs that he may not fall into the hand of man; whatever comes, Let us not Jlee three months before our enemies; that will sully all the gloiy of David's triumphs, and give occasion to the enemies of God and Israel to o-have themselves proudly. See Deut. 32. 26, 27. Their tender mercies are cruel; and in three months they will do that damage to the nation, which many years will not repair. But, 2. He casts himself upon God; Let us fall now into the hands of the Lord, for his mercies are great. Men are God's hand, so they are called, Ps. 17. 14. the sword of his sending, yet there are some judgments which come more immediately from his hand than others, as famine and pestilence; and which of these shall be the scourge, he refers it to God, who chooses the shortest, that he might the sooner testify his being reconciled. But some think that David, by these words, intimates his choice of the pestilence. The land had not yet recovered the famine under which it smarted three years upon the Gibeonites' account, and therefore let us not be corrected with that rod, for that also will be the triumph of our neighbours; hence we read of the reproach of famine; (Ezek. 36. 30.) but, if Israel must be diminished, let it be by the pestilence, for that is falling into the hands of the Lord, who usually inflicted that judgment bv the hand of his own n immediate servants, the angels, as in the death of the first-born of Egypt. Tnat is a judgment to which David himself, and his own family, lie as open as the meanest subject, but not so, either to famine or ...</p>

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