Numbers 27

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. XXVII.—With these daughters of Zelophehad let me manifest a strong faith in the promises of God, a strong desire after the better country, and a tender regard to my parents’ honour; so shall my labour not be in vain in the Lord. While I observe that it is appointed for all men once to die; that God’s principal favourites are often most severely chastised for their sin: but that in death believers retire to their best friends, to their unchanging and eternal rest;—while I profit by the death of others, whom I have seen depart before me in peace and comfort;—let me, with Moses, kindly accept God’s warnings of my own death.—Let me manifest a deep concern for the welfare of the church after I am gone; and rejoice that Jesus liveth, and is appointed of God as her Governor, to put all her true members in possession of the promised rest.—And let me, with Joshua, cheerfully comply with God’s call to the hardest work, and always act according to his inspired directions. 4