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Hawker's Poor man's commentary

Numbers 5:13-31

These verses contain a very circumstantial account, of the law of jealousy. The process of trial is very solemn and awful; and the event, suited to the nature of the dispensation, under which the church then was. But among the disciples of a better dispensation, founded upon better promises, there can need no waters of jealousy, for we know that GOD judgeth the secrets of all hearts by JESUS CHRIST, the Great High Priest of our profession; and though in the present day of abounding transgression, sins of uncleanness and unfaithfulness abound; yet that scripture is not less in force, whoremongers and adulterers will GOD judge. LORD! keep us from all our enemies, and especially from the defilements of our own corrupt nature, and may we learn as members of CHRIST'S mystical body, to say with the same holy zeal and indignation, as the Apostle: shall I then take the members of CHRIST, and make them the members of an harlot? GOD forbid! 1 Corinthians 6:15.

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