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Excerpt from Notes on the Book of Deuteronomy, Vol. 2
This is the true spirit in which to contemplate the ways of God in government. Some persons, allow ing themselves to be in?uenced by a morbid feeling and false sentimentality, rather than by an enlight ened judgment, find difficulty in the directions given to Israel in reference to the Canaanites, in the open ing of our chapter. It seems to them inconsistent. With a benevolent Being to command His people to smite their fellow-creatures, and to show them no mercy. Thev cannot understand how a merciful God could commission His people to slay women. And children with the edge of the sword.
It is very plain that such persons could not adopt the language of Revelation xv. 3, 4. They are not prepared to say, Just and true are Thy ways, Thou King of nations. They cannot justify God in all'' His ways; nay, they are actually sitting in judgment upon Him. They presume to measure the actings of divine government by the standard of their own shallow thoughts - to scan the infinite by the finite; in short, they measure God by themselves.
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This is the true spirit in which to contemplate the ways of God in government. Some persons, allow ing themselves to be in?uenced by a morbid feeling and false sentimentality, rather than by an enlight ened judgment, find difficulty in the directions given to Israel in reference to the Canaanites, in the open ing of our chapter. It seems to them inconsistent. With a benevolent Being to command His people to smite their fellow-creatures, and to show them no mercy. Thev cannot understand how a merciful God could commission His people to slay women. And children with the edge of the sword.
It is very plain that such persons could not adopt the language of Revelation xv. 3, 4. They are not prepared to say, Just and true are Thy ways, Thou King of nations. They cannot justify God in all'' His ways; nay, they are actually sitting in judgment upon Him. They presume to measure the actings of divine government by the standard of their own shallow thoughts - to scan the infinite by the finite; in short, they measure God by themselves.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Charles Henry Mackintosh
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