1841 William Miller Evidence from Scripture & History - A2Z.org

.stead of a blessing I am bold to say, Nowhere! And
one thing more I am bold to say - That kind of morality
which requires the aid of @e political world to enforce
it, is a harlot in disguise, and her path is the way to
death ; in her secret chambers you will find war, rapine,
and murder, and -in her train will be seen revenge, hatred,
ebvy, and division These are the temptations of
the church when in the city of the nations.
2dly. What has been her character when in the
city Answer : When the Jews left the wilderness, and
entered into Canaan, their manng with which they had
been fed while travelling in the wilderness, ceased, and
they fed on the old corn of the land. This manna was
a type of the spiritual food given by God to hie children,
while under his immediate control and care. See Rev.
ii 17. Old corn is a fit resemblance of the worldly
rights, privileges, and possessions among the nations of
the earth. The Jews, almost immediately after they
took possession of the land of Canaan, began to niu
themselves with the inhabitants around them, and became
men pleasem, and a nation of idolaters; and the
very things which Moses charged them against, became
the common occurrences of the day; and on account
of which God suffered their enemies to bring them into
bondage, and, from a powerful people, that had made
kings tremble even upon the report of them while in the
wilderness, now became a weak and degraded people, a
tributary nation, a band of slaves to their enemies; and
the prophecy of Moses, Deuteronomy xxxii. 15-'20, was
literally accomplished in about twenty years after they
took possession of their goodly land. UBut Jeshun~n
waxed fat and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art
grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he
forsook God which nlade him, and lightly esteemed tho
Rock of his salvation They provoked him tr, jealousy
with strange gods ; with abomil~ations provoked they him
to finger. They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to
gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly
up, who~nrr
fntliers (while in the wilderness) feared
not Of c Rock that heoat thee thou art un~nindful.
lad hast forgotten God that formed thee." The w d