The works of the Rev. William Thom, late minister ... - waughfamily.ca

SfUMONS.pTofperous, and, to a confiderable degree, they meetwith the reward of virtue even in the prefent Ufe ;the devices of the wicked are difappointed, th^ir cruelprojects are retarded, or altogether blafted, and their•hands cannot perform their enterprife ; fo that theyalfo, even in this hfe, commonly meet with fome partof that puniihment which bad men deferve.-I confefs that I5Jfeel much pleafure in the hifloricalfome of thefe Ihave not long^pafiages of fcripture ;•ago read, and endeavoured to explain to you •, and Ihave often wondered, that even thofe who have toolow an efteem of divine revelation do not perufe thefcriptune-hiftory attentively, becaufe I am fure thatthofe of them who have capacity might deriveinflruction and improvement from that perufal.greatIn the chapter I have now read, we h-ave the accountof a^fudden and memorable revolution that happenedin the kingdom of Judah, the revolt of the tentribes, which, alas I gave, rife to bloody wars betweenthe two kingdoms," weakened each of them, and wasunfavourable to the true religion. It is the defign o£this difcourfe, to confider the hiftory before me, andto offer fome remarks, all or moil of which have, Iprefume, occurred already to every attentive reader." Solomon flept with his fathers, and Rehoboam^his fon, reigned in his (lead." It is not exprefslyfaid, but it is evidenily implied, that when Solomondied, Rehoboam was immediately crowned at Jeriafalem,and fet apart to be king of Judah and Benjamin,by being anointed with oil, as was the cuftomamong the Jews. David was anointed at Hebron tobe king of Judah feven years before he was made kingof the ten tribes : But after Ifhboflieth, the fon ofSaul, was bafely' murdered in his own palace, the Ifraeliteswaited on David at Hebron ; and, when hehad made a league or compact with them, refpe