And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD, that he did for Israel.
Ver. 7. And the people served the Lord.] So did the primitive Christians, Acts 2:41,47 ; Act 26:7 with great intention of affection, whilst the apostles and their disciples were yet living. And so at the beginning of the Reformation; but now what a general chillness!
“ Heu, pietas ubi prisca? profana o tempora! ”
All the days of Joshua.] Of so great concernment it is that there be good governors; since the many will be of their religion. When George, Duke of Saxony, declared against Luther, his subjects were almost all of them Papists; as when Henry succeeded George, all on the sudden they became Lutherans. So when the Palatinate was lost to the Spaniard, people fell to Popery as fast as leaves in autumn; the most are of King Harry's religion.