CHAPTER XVI.

THE HEBREW THEOCRACY, 251; The supreme power, 251; The powers of Jehovah’s Vicegerent, 253; The General Assembly and their Elders, 254; The scope afforded for self-government, democracy, 255; The fundamental principles of this system, 258; Its union of Church and State, 259; Its principles and usages in regard to war, with notice of the war-commission against the doomed Canaanites, 261; The grant of Canaan, and the command to extirpate the Canaanites, 262.