...folly and perverseness, what infatuation was this ! What could be the cause of it ?—Want of faith. " We be not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we." (Numb. xiii. 31.) They trusted not in that strong arm which had brought them so far in peace and safety...

...fruitful; but the people be strong * that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very " great : we be not able to go up against the people, for they are " stronger than we ; all the people that we saw in it are men of " great stature ; we were in our own sight as grasshoppers,...

...not so ! This was the account of the unfaithful spies ; Caleb and Joshua had " another spirit." They said, " Let us go up at once and possess it, for we are well able to overcome it :" Yea, " If the Lord delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us, a land which...

...the ripe and ripening vintage of that land, may they not take up the noble words of Caleb, and add, ' Let us go up at once and possess it ; for we are well able to overcome it'? " But there is a second question to be answered, namely, ' "Will the results of this success endure ?' By...

...confidently say to them, as Caleb, on that most critical occasion said to the disheartened Israelites, " Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it." I am clearly of opinion that it is owing partly to the difficulty of returning home from Australia...

...fight of faith," by inspiring them with the same holy resolution which prompted Caleb to exclaim, " Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it." (Chap. xiii. 30.) Q. Verses 26—38.—What is the lesson to be derived from this condemnation of the...

...short, the united advice to the churches, of all the faithful men who have gone to spy out the land, is, "Let us go up at once and possess it, for we are well able to overcome it." Let us now, Christian friends, look seriously and solemnly at this subject; and, in full view of its...

...Caleb (answering well to his name, which signifies All-heart) stilled the people before Moses, and said, " Let us go up at once and possess it, for we are well able to overcome." We are told he had another spirit with him, and followed GOD fully. Moses, therefore, was commissioned...

...const of Jordan. 30 And 'Caleb10 stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, 31 32 than we. And they 'brought up an evil report11 of the land which they had searched unto the children...

...Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it. 31 I SIM LORD, and from the pillars 32 And they d brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel,...