Biblical Topography, Lectures - Softcover

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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. 1840 Excerpt: ...they paid the penalty of their disobedience to the full extent: for the nations they suffered to remain among them were at all times "pricks in their eyes, and thorns in their sides, and vexed them in the land wherein they dwelt." Thus, what is to be advanced in justification of this subject, relates to the Divine Being himself. First. We observe then, in the first place, that the abominable wickedness of the Canaanites merited extermination. They had totally apostatized from God, and abandoned themselves to idols; and, with the worship of idols, they practised every other detestable vice. Indeed, their idol-worship and vices were inseparably connected--the latter sprang from, nay, constituted the principal part of, the former. As thus connected, Moses holds them up to abhorrence:--"Enquire not thou after the gods of these nations, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God; for every abomination unto the Lord which he hateth have they done unto their gods: for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire unto their gods," (Deut. xii. 30, 31.) Besides the most ferocious and unnatural cruelty, their idolatry included the basest pollutions. Having enumerated the crime against nature, bestiality, incest, adultery, and other detestable crimes, Moses adds, "Defile not yourselves in any of those things; for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you, and the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants. Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinances, that ye commit not any of those abominable customs which were committed before you, and that ye defile not your...

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