Judges 4

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. IV.—Long-continued peace and prosperity are often made the occasion of great wickedness, which issues in heavier and sharper punishments than any formerly met with. But a merciful God readily hears the cries of his people under the distress which they have provoked him to lay upon them; and in his work of deliverance there is neither male nor female, but himself is ALL and in ALL! Such, as through unbelief are too eagerly desirous of human help or encouragement, are often punished with a loss of part of honour which they might otherwise have had. But fearful, irresistible, and unavoidable, is the ruin which proud sinners shall meet with when and where they expected nothing but safety, victory, and triumph. When God attacks there is no standing: when he pursues there is no escaping: when he begins he will also make an end: but such as trust in him shall never be disappointed. They who go forth in faith shall return victorious. Even the rank things of the world shall confound the mighty. And happy is it for men who do not make experience; animates us at last to meet our companions, and purge our Canaanites from the church of Christ