Numbers 33

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. XXXIII.—It is useful to remember and record God’s providences, for the after-direction or comfort of ourselves and others in future trials and temptations; for this world is but a waste-howling wilderness, and the condition of churches and saints therein always changing and unsettled. But the believing recollection of God’s dispensations will enable us cheerfully to pass on, while we discover how he preserves his people in all, and sets their mercies and judgments the one over against the other,—guides them with his counsel while here, and afterwards brings them to glory! But dangerous and infectious is intimacy with wicked men, and with the unfruitful works of darkness! Carefully then ought professors of the true religion to avoid it, and to remove out of the way whatever might occasion temptation or stumbling