government afterward: God said I have yet one Son, the result was, this is the heir, come let us kill him. All the pains on the bad tree brought but more bad fruit. Now men are trying this world, which God has tried already and pronounced evil. Trial in the Garden, in the flood, and afterward in the family of Abraham a piece taken out of the waste and cultivated; the character of the soil given and then pronouncing on the waste. When man lifted the spear & with the impotency of insult pierced the Saviour’s side he let out that very blood & water which washed the sin away.
Mr Darby, Eveng Lecture 21st
2 Saml xxii, xxiii 1-5. There is some difficulty in speaking on these chapters. They are so full of varied instruction. The Lord directs our heart into that wh-
