Joshua 20

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. XX.—In these cities let me behold Jesus, God’s Holy One, made of God unto us sanctification; Jesus, on whose shoulder the government is laid, and who bears and carries his people on his everlasting arms; 30 Jesus, through whom we have access to, and fellowship with, God, even the Father; Jesus, our Strong Hold to such as trust in him; Jesus, our elevated Propitiation and exalted Prince and Saviour; Jesus, who was made manifest in the flesh, that he might be our Joy and Consolation. Let me behold him as a divinely-appointed, a near, an accessible, ever open, large, well-furnished, and eternally safe, refuge from the just vengeance of a broken law, the destructive wrath of an angry God, the fury of a raging devil, and the ruinous challenges of a guilty conscience—a refuge to sinners of mankind, who have ignorantly, and in unbelief, spiritually murdered themselves, their neighbours, and even the great God their Saviour! And oh, what profitable instruction and complete peace we have in him! Haste then, my soul; escape to him for thy life; tarry not in all the plain, lest the avenger of blood overtake thee. And never, never, while Jesus our great High-priest lives, dare to be found without