Deuteronomy 9

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. IX.—The greater our enemies and impediments in the way of our duty, the more shall the power of God be magnified in our overcoming them. God can easily find instruments to execute his vengeance upon a people devoted to destruction; and his promises and threatenings are most certainly performed in their due time. Though judgment may be delayed, yet sin will at last make the most fearful havock in nations and families, however great and powerful. And yet it is hard to keep the very worst of men from trusting and glorying in their own fancied works of righteousness. But, to keep us humble amidst many and great mercies, let us search the records which conscience keeps of our sins. Nothing but obstinate blindness can support us in a good opinion of ourselves. But thanks be to God that, where sin abounded, grace doth much more abound; thanks for that infinite mercy, that such a wicked generation have a most prevailing intercessor to stand in the gap to turn away the Lord’s wrath and indignation from them