Oh! how sweet are songs of praise to the highest! I hope the Reader will not need that I should point out to him in this place, the evident traces we have in it of GOD the HOLY GHOST. It is well known, that through the whole of the Bible, GOD the SPIRIT is uniformly pointed out under this delightful emblem of water. One evidence above a thousand, we have John 7:37-39. And I hope the Reader will feel, what I desire both to feel and cherish in my soul, grateful thanks to the eternal SPIRIT, that he hath in one and the same chapter, and in a period of the church so distant as the one we are now reviewing, so graciously held up to our view a type of our dearest JESUS in the brazen serpent, and an emblem of himself in the well of Beer. Reader, there are two lovely songs in GOD'S word, very short but very sweet. This is one, the other you will find, Isaiah 27:2. The first is of regenerating mercy. The other is of dying love.
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Numbers 21:17-18
17 Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:
18 The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah: