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…

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…

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…