He tells them, that it was Christ Himself, the Lord Jesus Christ, who
fed and guided the old Jews in the wilderness, and that the Lord will
deal with us exactly as He dealt with the old Jews.
Therefore it is a great and fearful mistake, to suppose that because
the Jews were a peculiar people and God's chosen nation, that
therefore the Lord's way of governing them is in any wise different
from His way of governing us English at this very day; for that fancy
is contrary to the express words of Holy Scripture, in a hundred
different places; it is contrary to the whole spirit of our Prayer
Book, which is written all through on the belief that the Lord deals
with us just as He did with the Jewish nation, and which will not
even make sense if it be understood in any other way; and besides, it
is most dangerous to the souls and consciences of men. It is most
dangerous for us to fancy that God can change; for if God can change,
right and wrong can change; for right is the will of God, and wrong
is what is against His will; and if we once let into our hearts the
notion that God can change His laws of right, our consciences will
become daily dimmer and more confused about right and wrong, till we
fall, as too many do, under the prophet's curse, "Woe to them who
call good evil, and evil good; who put sweet for bitter, and bitter
for sweet," and fancy, like Ezekiel's Jews, that God's ways are
unequal; that is, unlike each other, changeable, arbitrary, and
capricious, doing one thing at one time, and another at another.
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