1 Samuel 6

6. Curiosity, to meddle with that which was out of his sphere, and did not belong to him. God struck the men of Beth-shemesh but for looking into the ark (1 Samuel 6:19). Adam would be prying into God's secrets, and tasting what was forbidden.

Therefore pry not into the Arcana Coeli, the secrets of heaven. Remember what befell the men of Bethshemesh, for looking into the ark (1 Samuel 6:19). Know that we are not to go by God's secret will, but by his revealed will; look into God's revealed will, and there we shall fin…

The distinction here is good, and founded upon the word of God, as has been already shewen. See (1 Samuel 6:9). If a man be never so much, and so often changed, and that for the better too, all is nothing, as to salvation, unless he become a new man, a new creature; such, in the…

When we do not observe his Providence; the blind world sets up an idol called chance, and does not acknowledge God at the other end of causes, as swaying all things by his wisdom and power. In afflictions, they think they come by chance and ill luck (1 Samuel 6:9 and Isaiah 26:1…

It's a speech of Iernovius, Where they may have to eat for the present, there they may be easily brought to believe such a way of service and worship that is countenanced, by the State for the present (Numbers 7:9; 2 Samuel 6). God allowed no Cart to the children of Kohath to ca…

So is [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], used by our Apostle (Romans 1:27), excellently expressed by Solomon (Proverbs 1:31): Sinners shall eat of the fruit of their own ways, and be filled with their own devises. Such rewards we have recorded: Numbers 15:30; 1 Samuel 6:6; 1 Kings 13:…

Touching the Mountain, or the border, limit, or bound set to it by Gods appointment, § 47 was the sin forbidden. And the end of it as was said, was that they should not break through, to see, to gaze say we, properly; to look with curiosity on the appearances of Gods glory, for…

For Shechem being not far from Shilo, the people might meet in the Town for convenience, and then go some of them with Joshua to Shilo, as is most probable that they did. From Shilo it was carried into the field of Aphek against the Philistines (1 Samuel 4:2), and being taken by…

And so God is sanctified when he does by a high hand of power recover and extort the glory of his holiness from the dead and stupid world. As by that notable stroke of the Bethshemites, when fifty thousand were slain for peeping into the ark (1 Samuel 6:20): This was the result…

And God has severely punished them that have been looked upon as little sins, yea some of them well-meant sins, as that of Uzza's taking hold of the Ark, when the Cart shook (2 Samuel 6:6-7). When they did but look into the Ark, it cost them dear (1 Samuel 6:19). Gathering of a…

Consider, next, the marvellous blessings which belong to all praying families. It was noted about the family of Obed-Edom, in (1 Samuel 6:11): The Lord blessed Obed-Edom and his household, while the ark of the Lord was there. So shall it be noted about the family of a praying ho…

But there is not a sword drawn when it is rescued. The Ark comes home; it is alone God's immediate providence that drives and acts upon two milk cows to bring it home again (1 Samuel 6:12-14). Who knows but when our strength of two Kingdoms has failed us, the Lord shall make cow…