Judges 7

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. VII.—When God affords remarkable encouragement his service should be undertaken with the greatest earnestness; and let us remember that God is apt to try his people’s faith thoroughly in the progress of their work, who insisted too much in trying him in their entrance on it. When multitudes flock to God’s standard, many of them are ordinarily unfit for his service: many never weigh the consequences, and therefore quickly start aside. And such as are enslaved by the fear of men are better out of God’s camp than in it; for God will take every means to convince his people that they ought to have no dependence on an arm of flesh. And happy are they who can believe