1 Chronicles 2

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. II.—Great were the blemishes of the first four fathers of the Hebrew tribes: and yet two of these tribes are chosen to the distinguished honours of priesthood and royalty; and the last of these to produce an incarnate God.—Not of works, lest any man should boast! The most distinguished sinners are often rendered the most remarkable monuments of his saving grace, or of usefulness in the church! And often the families, which God in and families almost desolated by the sword. God takes peculiar pleasure to all the low, and abase that which is high. David, the younger son of Jesse, raised to the throne.—Even so, Father, because so it seemed good in thy sight! what incontestible sovereignty God orders the condition of families, giving withholding children, or of this or that sex, as it pleaseth him! Let all therelearn, in whatever state he places them, to be therewith content. Let pats learn rather to marry their children to pious servants than to the ungodly . And let those, who, like the Kenites, join God’s people in their warfare, pect to dwell with them in their Canaan above. - • David called one of his sons Nathan; and many of them had Eli (My God) in their names.