Deuteronomy

But the Apostle comprehends all under this [they believed not]. Unbelief is charged upon them as the root of all their miscarriages elsewhere, as Numbers 14:11 and Deuteronomy 1:32. From where observe, that unbelief brings destruction, or is the cause of all the evil which we do…

Though it was of all the people, we may not say it proves that when we look at the material cause of a Church, there may be a promiscuous taking in of all comers without distinction or separation of the precious from the vile; for, first, when God took in this nation to be his p…

And blessed be God for that that has been done of late among us that so many idols, and that great idol that was in the eminent place of the city, that God put a spirit into those that were in authority to break it in pieces: it must be done by the magistrate. I remember Austin…

And as it was related to that, it was its eastern boundary. It is so spoken of (Genesis 15:18; Exodus 23:31; Deuteronomy 1:7 and 11:24; Joshua 1:4; 2 Samuel 8:3; 1 Chronicles 18:3; 1 Kings 4:21; Ezra 4:20). Agreeable to this diverse respect or relation of this river, under which…

That this idol was worshipped not only by the Sidonians but also by the Philistines, and indeed by all who inhabited the seacoast, is shown by (1 Samuel 31:10). II. There was also a town by this name (Deuteronomy 1:4; Joshua 9:10), which can be doubted by no one to have derived…

It is true, the word, the works of God, are not the principal object of faith, nor objectum quod; faith rests only on God, and the Lord Jesus (John 14:1; 1 Thessalonians 1:8). Your faith toward God (1 Peter 1:21; Deuteronomy 1:32; John 3:12; Genesis 15:6; Daniel 6:23; Romans 4:3…

Seed of the Serpent (Genesis 3:15). Children of Belial (Deuteronomy 1:3). Of the Devil (John 8:44).

All men are in this to be like to God their heauenly father: not accepting persons in their dealings. As Magistrates in the exequution of justice, Deut 1:17. Ministers in teaching, and in the reproouing of sinne, Mark 12:14. and all believers, who are not to have religion in acc…

For why should they enjoy that comfort which they had unkindly refused to give to others? He takes the mid-day here for extreme heat: and this similitude is often found in the scriptures, to wit, that the Lord was as a cloud at high noon, and as a pillar of fire by night (Exodus…

Some attention, no doubt, is due to men, but not so as to obtain their favor by flattery. In short, in order to walk uprightly, we must necessarily put away respect of persons, which obscures the light and perverts right judgment, as God frequently inculcates in the Law, (Deuter…

Matthew 26:57. But they who had seized Jesus led him to Caiaphas. Though the Jews had been deprived of what is called, the higher jurisdiction, there still lingered among them some vestiges of that judicial authority which the Law confers on the high priest, (Deuteronomy 1:8;) s…

It was also called Horeb (Exodus 3:1): He came to the Mountain of God even to Horeb, where they were to serve God, v. 12. and it was on this account afterwards called Horeb the Mount of God (1 Kings 19:8). And the whole Wilderness was termed the Wilderness of Horeb (Deuteronomy…

3. That none be respected in Judgement (Leviticus 19:15). 4. That none fear a wicked man in Judgement (Deuteronomy 1:17). 5. That we pitty not a poor man in Judgement (Exodus 23:3).

In which also, as the Jews say, he set a pattern to future judges, as determining the lesser causes speedily, but those wherein blood was concerned, not without stay and much deliberation. § 16 In the Wilderness the body of the people was cast into a new distribution, of thousan…

The same note does Paul give, Phil. 3. 19. calling them earthly minded, seeking their own honour, wealth, & glory, & not the things of God: and, they serve not the Lord; but their own bellies. Thus we see the notes of a false Prophet, among which the second is the principall whe…

Object. The Church herself, and the enemies thereof often conceive by Christ's dealing with her, that he hates her (Deuteronomy 1:27; 9:28). Answer: It is the flesh abiding in them that are of the Church which makes them so conceive, not the spirit; and in the enemies of the Chu…

There is that in gold, which good men may be compared to. We read in Deuteronomy 1:1 about the mountains of Dizahab: that is, the golden mountains; because gold was probably dug from there. The churches of God in the world, are such mountains of gold.

It went ill with Moses for [reconstructed: their] sakes because they provoked his spirit, so that he spoke unadvisedly with his lips. Therefore Moses himself said (Deuteronomy 1:37) the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, saying you shall not go into the land. Nay (Deuteronom…

God puts his finger upon the fears and infirmities of his children; how much did God wink at in Israel his firstborn! Israel often provoked him with their murmurings (Deuteronomy 1:27), but God answered their murmurings with mercies; he spared them as a father spares his son. 3.…

And by the way least this place may be thought to favor the Priests enquiring by Vrim, for the resolving of the controversie, because tis said, Then both the men between whom the controversie is, shall stand before the Lord, before the Priests and the Iudges, I shall to what I h…

When he had opened the iron gate of their house of bondage, and brought them into the open fields, did he vanish as the Angel from Peter, when out of prison? No, as a man carries his son, so the Lord bare them in all the way they went, Deuteronomy 1:31. This does lively set fort…

To the same purpose makes the exhortation which is read in the 82nd Psalm, that they should render right to the poor and needy, acquit the poor and needy, deliver the poor and needy from the hand of the oppressor (Psalm 82:3-4). And Moses gives charge to the princes whom he had…

But how far are the temporaries from this, who when by confession they have seemed to disgorge their stomachs, have filthily with the dog eaten up their own vomit again? And so far are they from this purpose of not sinning, that they are fully set upon sin, in confessing; as in…

(Exodus 4:14) The anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses. (Deuteronomy 1:37) Also the Lord was angry with me for your sake: And the story shows, because Moses sanctified not the Lord at the waters of Meribah, God would not suffer him to set his foot in the holy land. (2 Chr…

(2) Because, Solomon says, by me (that is by the Lord) Kings reign, and Princes decree justice (Proverbs 8:15). (3) Because, the Magistrate exercises, and executes God's judgments (Deuteronomy 1:17). (4) Because, the Magistrate receives all things from God, which are necessary,…

1. If it were not so, then it is free and arbitrary to the magistrate to appoint what punishments himself pleases. But this is not arbitrary to him, for he is the minister of God (Romans 13:4), and the judgement is the Lord's (Deuteronomy 1:7; 2 Chronicles 19:6). And if the magi…

The Lord in his dealing towards us seems as if he were loth to lose us, and that this nation should perish, Oh that this might work kindly upon our hearts to prevent greater evils, that we might not be made a spectacle of the wrath of God to all the nations that are round about…

[in non-Latin alphabet] signifies a man; and among the Rabbins a cock also. Hence Ben Vzziel renders [in non-Latin alphabet] Ezion Geber, the name of a city (Deuteronomy 2:8), [in non-Latin alphabet], the city of a cock. And Isaiah 22:17, [in non-Latin alphabet] is rendered by H…

He graciously inclines the will and hearts of men (Deuteronomy 30:6; Jeremiah 32:39, 40; Ezekiel 36:27) as the saints pray (Psalms 119:33, 34, 36, 88; Psalms 86:11; Canticles 1. & 4). He hardens the heart, and blinds the mind, as in his judgment he pleases (Job 12:16; Ezekiel 14…

When the ways of God are questioned, indeed disannulled, exploded with contempt and scorn, the more precious to a gracious heart, therefore do I love them says David, that was the very motive of his affection (verse 127). 3. Because God loves to bestow blessings when the creatur…

It is made with stiff-necked Israel (Deuteronomy 29; Deuteronomy 30; chapter 31; chapter 32), and that is called a Covenant from the end and object, as motions are denominated from their end: for the end of the Lord's pressing the Law upon them was to bring them under a blessed…

But the old generation were passed by, and remained obstinate and stiff-necked, were always murmuring, and would not be convinced by all God's wondrous works that they beheld. God by his awful judgments that he executed in the wilderness, and the affliction that the people suffe…

By what reasons are they confuted? (1) Because, the Scripture says, God blinds their eyes, and hardens their hearts, even actively, and judicially (John 12:40; Exodus 7:3; Deuteronomy 2:30; Romans 9:18). (2.) Because, God is said to punish one sin, with another (Romans 1:24, 26,…

Yes, and it may be that although bullocks only are mentioned, yet that goats also were sacrificed in this peace-offering. For it is so far from being true, what Ribera observes on the place, that a goat was never offered for a peace-offering, that the contrary to it, is directly…

Your prayers may be answered, though the thing prayed for be withheld, yes, or though it should be given for a little while and then taken from you again. There are four ways God answers prayers: by giving the thing prayed for immediately (Daniel 9:23); by suspending the answer…

Moses said, the Lord was angry with him, and would not hear him, and yet he did hear him; he limited God to a means to show him that good land, but he need not appoint God a course: Moses knew not how he should see it, unless he went over, but God knew how he should see it. So t…

The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. And therefore in the greater transgressions of the Law, the people were said to forsake, to break, to profane, to transgress the covenant of God (Leviticus 26:15; Deuteronomy 3:20; Chap. 17:2; Hosea 6:7; Joshua 7:11; 2 Kings 18:…

5. That God be not contemned (Deuteronomy 6:16). 6. That holy places be not destroyed (Deuteronomy 3:4). 7. That he who is hanged on the tree, abide not all night thereon (Deuteronomy 21:23).

First, the term from which she is called gets diverse names: 1. Lebanon. 2. Amana. 3. Shenir and Hermon. 4. The lions' dens and mountains of leopards, which are added for explication of the former. Lebanon is a hill often mentioned in Scripture, excellent for beauty, and therefo…

Therefore Moses himself said (Deuteronomy 1:37) the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, saying you shall not go into the land. Nay (Deuteronomy 3:26) the Lord would not hear him, saying, speak no more to me of this [reconstructed: matter]. This is a great dishonor to God and…

And he was never in greater than when he escaped out of the Cave at Adullam, and went thence to Mizpheh of Moab, to get shelter for his Parents, 1 Sam. 22.13. Then was he in the Land of the Hermonites, the Hill Hermon, being the boundary eastward of the Israelites Possession nex…

God turns not our prayers from him, nor his mercy from us, but our person and prayers are accepted, and so accepted, as that God both hears what we say, and will likewise do it (John 5:14-15; Mark 11:24). God will grant us all necessary expedient things, for this life and a bett…

Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is One Lord. He is the only God (Deuteronomy 4:39). Know therefore this day, and consider it in your heart, that the Lord he is God in Heaven above, and upon the Earth beneath there is none else.

Use 2. If God be a Spirit, then it shows the folly of the Papists, who worship him by pictures and images. Being a Spirit, we cannot make any image to represent him by (Deuteronomy 4:12). The Lord spoke to you out of the midst of the fire, you heard the voice of the words, but s…

By Egypt is meant a place of idolatry and superstition, by the House of Bondage is meant a place of affliction. Israel while they were in Egypt were under great tyranny, they had cruel task-masters set over them, who put them to hard labor, and set them to make brick, yet allowe…

Resp. That is, before my face, In conspectu meo, in my sight (Deuteronomy 27:15). Cursed be he that makes a graven image, and puts it in a secret place. Some would not bow to the idol that others might see, but they would secretly bow to it: but though this was out of man's sigh…

2. Nor the likeness of any thing, etc. All ideas, portraits, shapes, images of God, whether by effigies or pictures, are here forbidden (Deuteronomy 4:15). Take heed lest you corrupt yourselves, and make the similitude of any figure.

It is an honor to be employed in a king's service: and so to be employed in God's, by whom kings reign. To walk in God's commandments proclaims us to be wise (Deuteronomy 4:5-6). Behold I have taught you statutes: keep, therefore, and do them, for this is your wisdom.

Wherein do they teach lies? Because they represent God in a bodily shape, whereas he cannot be seen (Deuteronomy 4:12). You saw no similitude, only you heard a voice.

Response 1. If God be our Father then he will teach us; what Father will refuse to counsel his son? Does God command parents to instruct their children (Deuteronomy 4:10), and will not he instruct his? (Isaiah 48:17) I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit.

5. To excite our diligence, let us consider how inexcusable we shall be if we miss of the kingdom of Heaven, who have had such helps for Heaven as we have had: Indians who have mines of gold, have not such advantages for glory as we; they have the light of the sun, moon and star…

Let us be doers of the will of God; Your Will be done. 1. It is our wisdom to do God's will (Deuteronomy 4:6): Keep and do these statutes, for this is your wisdom. 2. It is our safety.

(2 Thessalonians 1:6) It is a righteous thing with God, to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you. (Hebrews 12:29) For our God is a consuming fire, from (Deuteronomy 4:24). Fifthly, that God has also engaged his veracity and faithfulness in the sanction of the law not t…

Qu. 12. What is principally to be attended to by us in the manner of the celebration of the worship of God, and observation of the institutions and ordinances of the Gospel? Answ. That we observe and do all whatever the Lord Christ has commanded us to observe, in the way that he…

And the comeliness and beauty of Gospel worship, consisteth in its relation to God by Jesus Christ, as the merciful high-Priest over his house, with the glorious administration of the spirit therein. The order also of it lies in the due and regular observation of all that Christ…

(4) Exodus 29:42, 43, 45; Deuteronomy 14:23; Psalm 133:3; Matthew 18:20; Revelation 21:3. (5) Exodus 20:5; Deuteronomy 4:23, 24; Joshua 24:19; Ezekiel 16. (6) Leviticus 10:1, 2; Numbers 16:3, 8, 9, 32, 35; 1 Samuel 2:28, 29; 2 Samuel 6:6, 7; 2 Chronicles 26:16, 19; 1 Corinthians…

Qu. 3. How then are these ways and means of the worship of God made known to us? Answ. In and by the written word only; which contains a full and perfect revelation of the will of God; as to his whole worship, and all the concernments of it: John 5:39, Isaiah 8:20, Luke 16:19, 2…

Q. How many Gods are there? A. No more but one (Deuteronomy 4:39 & 6:4; Isaiah 44:6, 8 & 45:5, 18; 1 Corinthians 8:4, 6; Ephesians 4:6). Q. Why may there not be more Gods than one?

In most other places the work which he then accomplished is ascribed to the lifting up, or stretching out of his hand (Ezekiel 20:6). See the description of it (Deuteronomy 4:34; chapter 26:8). It was towards their enemies a work of mighty power, of the lifting up of his hand; b…

And what is this indignation of it? God himself is in the Scripture said to be a consuming fire (Deuteronomy 4:24; chapter 9:3; Isaiah 33:14; Hebrews 10:29). What is intended thereby is declared in a word (Deuteronomy 4:24).

But principally it regards his mission by Christ after his ascension into Heaven (Acts 2:33): Being exalted and having received the promise of the Father, he sent the Spirit. The promise of him was, that he should be sent from Heaven, or from above, as God is said to be above, w…

Which point the Creed avouches, in saying, I believe in God, not gods: and yet more plainly the Nicene Creed and the Creed of Athanasius, both of them explaining the words of the apostles' Creed on this manner, I believe in one God. However some in former times have erroneously…

4. That the same God is maker of all things, without himself. And to these four notions or principles, are suited the four precepts of the first Table: in the first, we have God's unity; in the second, God's invisible nature, and therefore images are forbidden upon that ground (…

The first forbids the making of carved or graven images; the second forbids the adoration of them. Now the first part is notably expounded by Moses in Deuteronomy 4:16: Take good heed unto yourselves that you corrupt not yourselves and make you a graven image or representation o…

Testimony 1. Deuteronomy 4:2: You shall not add to the words that I command you, nor take anything therefrom. Therefore the written word is sufficient for all doctrines pertaining to salvation.

But it must be understood of the images of the true God Jehovah — it forbids us to resemble God, either in his nature, properties, or works, or to use any resemblance of him for any sacred use, as to help the memory when we are about to worship God. Thus much the Holy Ghost, who…

1. Because it is usual with God when men love their sins, and hate to be reformed, he gives them up judicially to their sins, that their sins may be their plagues. Hence it is threatened as a punishment of idolatry (Deuteronomy 4:25, 28), because they have corrupted themselves w…

The Scripture exhorts to do things that intend this knowledge. In (Deuteronomy 4:1) and (Deuteronomy 6) the Israelites were exhorted to hear and know the statutes of the Lord, that they might do them; to speak of God's word and works, which acts their knowledge, puts them in rem…

Further, they are great things, because they make all those great that do receive them; they make them great even because they have but the keeping of them, much more than if they receive them. In (Deuteronomy 4:8): What nation is there so great, that has statutes and judgments…

They were afraid of the breach of the Commandment soon after it was given; but when there was a distance of time from the Commandment, and when they were settled in a way of prosperity, then they ventured: so that (I say) from hence our note is, That we must take heed that the d…

From this circumstance the Jews, perverting Scripture, assert that God granted the sun and moon to the gentiles for worship. They gather this from the words of Moses (Deuteronomy 4:19): "Lest perhaps you lift up your eyes to heaven, and see the sun, and the moon, and the stars,…

The occasions of the origin of idolatry — The report of the dominion of the sun and moon — In what sense the sun and moon are the two great lights — The monstrous fiction of Jonathan the Targumist — Delegated dominion as a corrupt basis for worship — The vain reasonings of idola…

What was expected of them in return was that they would faithfully observe that common equity and goodness which is congruous with human nature, together with ancient customs and the principles of reason and utility upon which the people relied in forming themselves into a body.…

Whatever idolaters falsely imagine, their gods are wood and nothing more. Also by a term meaning "gods of stone," that is, stone gods: Deuteronomy 4:28, "You will serve gods of stone." Also by a term meaning "gods of silver," that is, silver gods; and by a term meaning "gods of…

Theology as a complex of spiritual gifts — Extraordinary or ordinary gifts — Ordinary gifts peculiar to the ministry or common to all — Christ the bestower of all gifts (Psalm 68:19; Acts 2:33; Ephesians 4:8) — The Hebrew word signifies both to receive and to give — Christ the a…

The whole Law is divided by the Lord himself into two Tables. The first, does contain those duties which we owe directly in his service (Deuteronomy 4:13 and Exodus 34:1-2). The second, which we owe to our brethren (Matthew 22:36; Romans 13:8-9).

Now follows those means which he has given us, and they are attributed to the Lord himself directly, as his titles, to be used, either simply (Romans 9:5; 1 Timothy 1:17), in an oath (Deuteronomy 6:13; Jeremiah 12:26; Isaiah 18), or his works, given of him by man his ministry: h…

The use or end of all the work of the Lord towards him, to preach and set forth the power and glory of the eternal kingdom of God (Psalm 145:11-12). To us, that we and our posterity may better know, trust, love, and fear the Lord (Psalm 78:7; Deuteronomy 4:9). But contrariwise,…

So is it here in this matter of Christ's intercession; and therefore this second direction is, that you would study clearness in the grounds that you are to go upon in the use-making of his intercession, but you would not be curious in seeking satisfaction about the how or manne…

But then the question is, whether these means be the preaching of the Gospel, or of the same God revealed as Creator, by the Sun, Moon, and Stars, who is revealed in the Gospel, and salvation by him. Now the Sun, and Stars, and heaven declare the glory of God, and sound forth hi…

1. Observe, that there was a voice distinctly, and audibly, heard. Though God did sensibly now manifest his presence in the Mount with Christ, and did audibly speak to them, yet he did not appear in any distinct form, and shape either of man, or any other living creature, but al…

Or secondary, when the images themselves are not worshipped, as having any Godhead properly in themselves, but as they relate to represent, or are made use of in the worship of him who is accounted God; we shall find this done by the wiser heathens, worshipping their images, not…

And Paul bids Timothy, avoid them that teach otherwise, that is, any different doctrine as necessary to salvation, beside that which he taught (1 Timothy 6:3). And the reason of this sin, is: because God has given this commandment, We may not depart from his word, to the right h…

He knew them above all nations, says Amos (Amos 3:1). And he chose them, because he loved their fathers (Deuteronomy 4:37). Hence we gather, the free election of God: and that they are deceived, who think, that there was no difference of Jews and Gentiles in respect of God, but…

The second kind of Idolatrie, is to worship the true God with deuised worship, as namely with, in, and at Images, set vp to the honor of God. This Idolatrie is forbidden in the second commaundement, as Moses has expounded the law, Deut 4:16. You sawest no image in the day I appe…

So then it is justice with God to deal with sinners as they deal with him. And therefore the Lord is called (in respect of them) a devouring fire, by Moses (Deuteronomy 4:24). For the Prophets (as has been often said) borrow their phrases from him: and the Apostle (Hebrews 12:26…

But the holy Scripture is full of such sentences. Moses warns the people who were inclined to this vice, You saw no similitude nor shape (says he) in the mountain, only you heard a voice, take heed therefore lest being corrupted, you should make you any graven image (Deuteronomy…

Saint Paul calls it a secret hidden (Ephesians 3:9) from the foundations of the world, and is yet unknown to the very angels (1 Peter 1:12) further forth than it is manifested to them by the Church (Ephesians 3:10). Thus then, although the Jews were once the only wise people und…

And therefore the Prophet expressly says, My people: because they were separate from other nations by a singular privilege; to the end they being kept and guided under God, might hold a right manner of good life. As it is said in Deuteronomy 4:7, What nation is so great that has…

He comes by the preaching of his word, and by the sundry benefits which he bestows upon us: as also, by the many testimonies which he uses to manifest the fatherly love and good will he bears us. Was there ever any people, says Moses, that saw such signs and wonders as you have…

In his love he redeemed them.] The Prophet shows what the cause is from which these great benefits proceeded: namely, God's love and good pleasure. As Moses also teaches (Deuteronomy 4:37 and 7:7-8): From where is it that God has gathered your fathers, says he, but because he lo…

It deserves our attention, that the voice of God was heard from the cloud, but that neither a body nor a face was seen. Let us therefore remember the warning which Moses gives us, that God has no visible shape, lest we should deceive ourselves by imagining that He resembled a ma…

Question. Why is the house put before the wife? In Deuteronomy the wife is put first (Deuteronomy 5:21): Neither shall you desire your neighbor's wife, neither shall you covet your neighbor's house. Here the house is put first.

An effectual fervent prayer prevails much; this is both the fire and the incense, without fervency it is no prayer. 2. Love him as a God (Deuteronomy 5:6). You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart.

"Speak you with us, and we will hear" (Exodus 24:3). "And Moses came, and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgements, and all the people answered with one voice, and said, all the words which the Lord has said, we will do" (Deuteronomy 5:27). "All that the…

Quest. 20. By what means do persons so called become a Church of Christ? Answ. They are constituted a Church, and interested in the rights, power, and priviledges of a Gospel-Church, by the will, promise, authority, and law of Jesus Christ, upon their own voluntary consent and e…

But there was such an administration of a spirit of dread and terror in the giving of the Law, as that the people were not able to bear the approaches of God to them, nor the thought of an access to him. And therefore they desired that all things for the future might be transact…

See (Genesis 15:9, 10, 18). [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] or [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] that is cum, which is joined in construction with it (Genesis 15:18; Deuteronomy 5:2). The Apostle renders it by [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], and that with a dative case without a preposition,…

So was it in the original covenant with Adam, which had no Mediator. But in the giving of the Law, which was to be a covenant between God and the people, they found themselves utterly insufficient for an immediate treaty with God, and therefore desired that they might have an In…

The Covenant intended it is none other but that made at Sinai, in the third month after the coming of the People out of Egypt (Exodus 19:1), which Covenant in the nature, use and end of it, we have before described. And the Fathers were those of that Generation, those who came o…

And in that Covenant there were three things; 1. The prescription of obedience to the people on the part of God, which was received by their consent in an express compliance with the law and terms of it (Deuteronomy 5:14). Herein the nature of it, so far as it was a Covenant, di…

For, (1.) It was given and prescribed to the people, and by them accepted as the terms of God's Covenant, before any of these things were revealed or appointed (Deuteronomy 5:27). Therefore all these following institutions did only manifest, how that Covenant should be complied…

On God's part he was immediately called to this employment (Exodus 3). And on the part of the people he was chosen and desired by them to transact all things between God and them, in the making and confirmation of this covenant, because they were not able to bear the effects of…

For so it is said, that the Law was given by the Disposition of Angels in the hand of a Mediator (Galatians 3:19). That is, of Moses; whom the People desired to be the internuncius between God and them (Exodus 20:19; Deuteronomy 5:24; Chap. 18. 16). Answ. (1.) Moses may be said…

First, There was a Covenant between the Church of Israel and God (Exodus 19:5, 6, 7, 8; Ezekiel 16:8; Deuteronomy 29:10, &c.). Secondly, This Covenant was mutual; not only a promise on God's part to be their God, and to take them for his people, but also reciprocally on their pa…

Fourthly, they who were so joined in council with the Priests (2 Chronicles 19:8) are plainly distinguished from the Judges and Magistrates (verse 11). And so are the Princes and Rulers distinguished from the Elders (Acts 4:5; Judges 8:14; Deuteronomy 5:23; Joshua 8:33). Fifthly…

But alas! they were foreign images, the ugly faces of Moloch, Dagon, Ashtaroth; he forbad not his own. Yes, but they are images or likenesses of himself, that in the first place, and principally, he forbids them to make, and he enforces his command upon them from hence, that whe…

Consider only this: that they added a tenth commandment to the ten commandments of God, namely their own particular crime. The Decalogue is set forth in two places, Exodus 20, when the law was first given, and Deuteronomy 5, when it is solemnly repeated; in both places they inse…

Of the first sort are, rejoicing in the word received, and profiting by that. Also meditations, conference, &c. on the works of God, that so we might not only by doctrine, but by experience be taught, and so be brought to greater feeling, as is commanded (Deuteronomy 5:20). For…

Here again is forbidden rash and common oaths, not taken up for such a cause (Ecclesiastes 9:4; Matthew 5:34). False oaths, perjury (Leviticus 19:12; Deuteronomy 5:11). And thus much of titles.

But then the question is, whether these means be the preaching of the Gospel, or of the same God revealed as Creator, by the Sun, Moon, and Stars, who is revealed in the Gospel, and salvation by him. Now the Sun, and Stars, and heaven declare the glory of God, and sound forth hi…

Therefore the Mediatour here mentioned, is Moses, who stood betweene the people and God, in the deliuerie of the law. Deut 5:5. It may be obiected, that there is but one Mediatour Christ, 1.

Fifthly, the law was in nature by creation: the Gospel is above nature, and was revealed after the fall. Sixthly, the law has Moses for the mediator (Deuteronomy 5:27), but Christ is the mediator of the new testament (Hebrews 8:6). Lastly, the law was dedicated by the blood of b…

We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of that power, might be of God, and not of man. There is set down (Deuteronomy 5:23 etc.) a notable ground for the institution of the holy ministry by man, in stead of God's lively voice from heaven. And it was one of…

For by the verb exhortative, walk in it, he adds some relief to help our perseverance lest some difficulty or other might slacken our course, as it often falls out. Objection. But that which he adds of the right hand and the left, may seem absurd, in regard that when Moses showe…

Godliness consists not in a heart to intend to do the will of God, but in a heart to do it. The children of Israel in the wilderness had the former, of whom we read, Deuteronomy 5:27-29. Go near, and hear all that the Lord our God shall say; and speak to us all that the Lord our…

For these things do not denote the Principle of Holiness it self, which is seated in the Mind, or Understanding and Will, whereas they are the names of Affections only; but they signifie the first Way whereby that Principle does act it self in an holy Inclination of the Heart to…

(16) So also Exodus 35:2, 3. (17) The whole matter stated, Deuteronomy 5:15. (18) The Conclusion.

Some refer it to the fifth commandment of honouring father and mother; others to the ceremonies of the Red Heifer with whose ashes the water of sprinkling was to be mingled; for which conjecture they want not such reasons as are usual among them. The two first they confirm from…

No considering Person can read these words, but he will find a most signal Emphasis in the several parts of them. The Day of the Assembly; ⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩; is that which the Jews so celebrate, under the Name of the Station in Sinai; the Day that was the foundation of the…

The Jews say, that the people understood not one word of what was spoken, but only heard a voice, and saw the terrible appearances of the Majesty of God; as v. 18. For immediately upon that sight, they removed and stood afar off; and the matter is left doubtful in the repetition…

11. Twice a day to repeat that Sanction, Hear, O Israel (Deuteronomy 6:7; chapter 11:19). 12. That we learn and teach the Law (Deuteronomy 5:1; chapter 11:8). 13. To wear Philacteries or Tephilin on the head (Deuteronomy 6:8).

The corrupt sense given by the Scribes and Pharisies, is propounded in the words of the Holy Spirit, Leuit. 19. 12. Deut. 5. 11. you shalt not forsweare your selfe, but shall performe yours oathes unto the Lord: which are not here taken in that true meaning wherein Moses set the…

And so God (although in propriety of speech he can doubt nothing, nor fear anything, yet) is pleased to express his jealousy by such speeches as intimate distrust and dissidence. And therefore when the Israelites made that solemn promise to the Lord (Deuteronomy 5:27), "All that…

This was the glory and privilege of Israel, as the Psalmist declares (Psalms 147:19, 20): He sheweth his word to Jacob, his statutes and his judgments to Israel; He has not dealt so with any nation. The Church then knew him; yet so as that they had an apprehension that he dwelt…

Their duty at that time in general is to do what lies in them, that it may go well with their children after their departure. Both the reasons which are often urged by the Holy Ghost, to stir up parents to yield obedience to God, taken from extent of God's blessing (in this kind…

Intermission, ease, and rest from labor at seasonable times, is as needful and requisite, as food and apparel. The reason which God renders of the fourth commandment shows that masters ought to afford rest to their servants: it is this, that your servant may rest (Deuteronomy 5:…

1. Because mortal men cannot endure his glorious presence. Deuteronomy 5:23: "When you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, for the mountain did burn with fire, you said, Behold, the Lord our God has showed us his glory, and his greatness, and we have heard his voic…

1. We beg a heart to do it. (Deuteronomy 5:29) O that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always! It is not enough to set ourselves to do what God has commanded; but we must get a renewed, sanctified heart.

Oftentimes the soul may be strongly moved and affected for the present, and carried out to the Gospel under the notion of holiness, but it is but the lighter part of the soul that is so moved, not the whole heart, therefore it is not durable. The people meant as they spoke, when…

Our resolution is not to be determined and judged of so much by the course of our language, as by the bent of our heart. Empty promises signify nothing unless they are the result of the heart's determination (Deuteronomy 5:29-30). The people has said well, says God, all that the…

2. It directs us in our desires of knowledge, what should be our scope; come with a fixed resolution to obey, and refer all to practice. Knowledge is the means, doing is the end (Deuteronomy 5:31). I will speak to you all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments whi…

Free-will-pangs of natural devotion are soon spent, they are like the morning dew, suddenly falls, and suddenly dried up. (Deuteronomy 5:29) When the people were frighted into a sense of religion, say they, All that the Lord has spoken, will we do. They have well said says God,…

Doctrine. Constancy and perseverance in obedience, is the commendation of it. When David promises to obey, he says he would do it continually for ever and ever: This is the obedience God longs for (Deuteronomy 5:29), O that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear m…

1. Hearing without doing is disapproved (Deuteronomy 4:5): I have taught you good statutes and judgments, that you might do so. (Deuteronomy 5:1) Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that you may learn them, and do them: Otherwise we de…

Note hence, 1. Doctrine. The fear of God is the grand principle of obedience (Deuteronomy 5:29): Oh that there were such an heart within them, that they would fear me, and keep my commandments always. Here consider, 1. What is the fear of God. 2. What influence it has upon obedi…

You owe all your time, and strength, and service to him, and therefore you should still be doing his will, and abounding in his work. 3. He enjoins nothing but what is good (Deuteronomy 5:29): Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my comm…

1. Seriously and advisedly, not in a rash humor. The people when they heard the Law, and were startled with the majesty of God (Deuteronomy 5:28-29), answered, All that the Lord has spoken, we will do. It was well done to come to a purpose and resolution, but O that there were s…

Some talk of the world, and declaim against it as a vanity, who think vainly in their heart, that their houses shall endure for ever (Psalm 49:11). So the rich man said within himself, you have good laid up for many years (as if he thought these things his happiness) but it is s…

Whatever then does transgress the law of God (in whole or in part (James 2:10)) is therefore, and is therein a sin, whether it break an affirmative or a negative precept; that is, whether it be the omission of good, or commission of evil. 2. To proceed and lay open wherein espec…

Or, that there is true saving grace wrought in his soul? Ans. 1. An universal respect to the commandments of God argues sincerity (Deuteronomy 5:29): "O that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always." A constant regard to all t…

Now these three together, the workings of conscience, the sight of the goodness of the law, a desire to be saved, may bring forth in a man great purposes against sin, and yet he may have no heart to perform his own purposes. This was much-what the case of them, (Deuteronomy 5),…

Answ. There is but one, only the living and true God. That there is a God has been proved, and those that will not believe the verity of his essence, shall feel the severity of his wrath (Deuteronomy 6:4). Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is One Lord.

The Lord would have Moses make the Tabernacle [illegible], according to the pattern in the mount (Exodus 25:40); he must not leave out anything in the pattern, nor add to it; if God was so exact and careful about the place of his worship, how exact will he be about the manner of…

Quest. What is the sum of the Ten Commandments? Resp. The sum of the Ten Commandments, is to love the Lord our God, with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind, and our neighbor as ourselves (Deuteronomy 6:5): You shall love the Lord your…

Truth, for God spoke it; and goodness, for there is nothing the commandment enjoins but is for our good: O then let this command our love. 6. If God spoke all these words, then teach your children the law of God (Deuteronomy 6:7). These words which I command you this day shall b…

Rule 1. The commands and prohibitions of the moral law reach the heart. 1. The commands of the moral law reach the heart: the commandments require not only outward actions, but inward affections: they require not only the outward act of obedience, but the inward affection of lov…

For instance, First, When we expound those texts literally, which are meant figuratively. Thus the Pharisees were guilty, when God said in the Law, "You shall bind the commandments for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes" (Deuteronomy 6:8). Th…

It is said, not only Christ was with God before the beginning, but he was God (John 1:1), and (1 Timothy 3:16), God manifest in the flesh. The title of Lord so often given to Christ in the New Testament does answer to the title of Jehovah in the Old Testament (Deuteronomy 6:5; M…

At present it is enough to represent the testimonies that he is one, only one. And because we have no difference with our adversaries distinctly about this matter, I shall only name some few of them, (Deuteronomy 6:4) Hear O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord. A most pregnant…

Q. 1. What does God require of us in our dependance on him, that he may be glorified by us, and we accepted with him? Answ. That we (a) worship him (b) in and by the ways of his own appointment. (a) Matthew 4:10. Revelation 14:7. Deuteronomy 6:13. chap. 10:20. (b) Leviticus 10:1…

Reverence then to the authority of God appointing his worship, is a principal means of sanctifying the name of God therein. This was the solemn sanction of all his institutions of old (Deuteronomy 6:4–5, 6, 7): Hear O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord, and you shall love the…

This appurtenance of them to the Ark, the Apostle expresseth by the Preposition [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩] from the Hebrew [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩] now this preposition is so frequently used in the Scripture to signify, adhesion, conjunction, approximation, appurtenance of one t…

And this was twofold, (1) That which was instituted by God himself; and (2) that which the People had superadded in the way of practice. The first of these is, as in other places, so particularly expressed (Deuteronomy 6:6, 7, 8, 9). And these words which I command you this day…

Now if men had not had a sense and understanding of the nature, lawfulness, and obligation from the light of nature of an oath, this would have been of no use nor signification to them. It is true that God did expressly institute the rite and use of swearing in judgment among hi…

Even a good Hezekiah could not hide a vainglorious temper under this temptation. Hence that caution to Israel (Deuteronomy 6:10-12): 'And it shall be, when the Lord your God shall have brought you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to giv…

The Scripture exhorts to do things that intend this knowledge. In (Deuteronomy 4:1) and (Deuteronomy 6) the Israelites were exhorted to hear and know the statutes of the Lord, that they might do them; to speak of God's word and works, which acts their knowledge, puts them in rem…

Curse or punishment, which is the first, which punishes the least offence with the wrath of God, to be felt for ever in soul and body; called death (Galatians 3:10; Romans 6:23; Romans 5:12-13; Deuteronomy 27:26; Genesis 2:17). Blessing, or reward, which is the second, giving to…

Instruction out of the scripture, is by the daily reading of the same with them, both to make them acquainted with the course of them, so that they may mark the same for their better profiting, by the allegations of the public ministry, also to refer those things which are plain…

And thus much of those which the Lord in mercy and wisdom receives of us. Now follows those means which he has given us, and they are attributed to the Lord himself directly, as his titles, to be used, either simply (Romans 9:5; 1 Timothy 1:17), in an oath (Deuteronomy 6:13; Jer…

Whereto appertained the ceremony of lifting up their hands to the Lord, which called them to mind with whom they had in this cause to deal (Genesis 14:22). So sometimes they added, or put in stead of the creatures of life, heaven, earth, afflictions, or sufferings, not to give t…

2. It does with advantage give us other instructions. 1. Christ cuts the throat of the temptation, by quoting a passage of Scripture out of Deuteronomy 6:16. You shall not tempt the Lord your God, as you tempted him in Massah.

The church could not have done without it. 4. The places out of which it is cited are two: (Deuteronomy 6:13): You shalt fear the Lord your God, and serve him, and swear by his name. And again (Deuteronomy 10:20): You shalt fear the Lord your God, and serve him, and to him shalt…

I answer, that the Apostles, and Christ in citing places of the Old Testament, apply them, and expound them, and hereupon sometimes add words without adding to the sense. Moses says, Him shall you serve (Deuteronomy 6:16). Christ alleging the same words, says, Him only shall you…

This triall is a worke of God whereby he discouers to vs, and to the world, either the grace or the corruption of our hearts. Thus God tried Abraham, Hebr. 11. 17. the Israelites, Deut 6:1. and Ezechias, 2. Chron. 32. 31. and Paulin this place.

We must in like manner observe, that the things which appertain to God's service, ought not to be applied to profane uses: it is the profanation of an oath then, to swear by any other thing than by the Lord. For it is written, You shall swear by my name (Deuteronomy 6:13). Do we…

We use to say in our common proverb, that one has that upon his fingers ends, which is seriously imprinted in his memory. And when Moses commands a daily meditation in God's law, he says, "You shall bind them upon your hands" (Deuteronomy 6:8), that so they might always have God…

He amplifies the crime of which he spoke before, that the people should not flatter themselves in their inventions. Now it is very likely that Isaiah alludes to Moses' words, wherein the Lord commanded that they should always have the Law before them: that they should fix it upo…

And now proceeds with the same kind of defense as before, employing Scripture as a shield, not of reeds, but of brass. He quotes a passage from the law, that God alone is to be adored and worshipped, (Deuteronomy 6:13; 10:20.) From the application of that passage, and from the c…

But as the law had been corrupted by false expositions, and turned to a profane meaning, Christ vindicates it against such corruptions, and points out its true meaning, from which the Jews had departed. That the doctrine of the law not only commences, but brings to perfection, a…

The reasons which he brings forward tend rather to the opposite view, that we swear by the name of God even when we name the heaven, and the earth: because there is no part of the world on which God has not engraved the marks of his glory. But this statement appears not to agree…

"An abridgment or summary of the Law." which is also found in the writings of Moses, (Deuteronomy 6:5.) For, though it is divided into two tables, the first of which relates to the worship of God, and the second to charity, Moses properly and wisely draws up this summary,

For why were their fringes made broader, and their phylacteries more magnificent, than what was customary, except for idle display? The Lord had commanded the Jews to wear, both on their forehead and on their raiment, some remarkable passages selected out of the Law, (Deuteronom…

They ought to profess that all their hearts and souls are in these engagements to be the Lord's, and forever to serve him; 2 Chronicles 15:12-14. God's people's swearing to God, and swearing by his name, or to his name, as it might be rendered, (by which seems to be signified th…

Prov. 36. 6. Revel. 22. 18. (2) It is so formally; that is, we are not to do only what is commanded, all that is commanded, and nothing else, but whatever we do we are to do it because it is commanded, or it is no part of our Obedience or Holiness, Deut. 6. 24, 25. Chap. 29. 19.

For to what purpose do we desire them before we have them, rejoice in them when we have them, value them so highly, sympathize with them so tenderly, grieve for their death so excessively; if in the mean time no care be taken what shall become of them to Eternity? (2.) How God h…

Vocatur autem Angelus quia mundum gubernat. Scriptum est enim Deuteronomy 6:21. eduxit vos Jehovah ex Aegypto; & alibi Numbers 20:6. misit Angelum suum & eduxit vos ex Aegypto. Praeterea scriptum est Isaiah 63:9. & Angelus facici ejus salvos fecit ipsos.

And it shall be for a sign upon your hand, and as a memorial between your eyes, that the Lord's law may be in your mouth: ver. 16. and it shall be for a token upon your hand, and as frontlets between your eyes. Whereunto may be added Deuteronomy 6:6, 7, 8, 9. And these words whi…

1. Faith, and acknowledgment of God's divine Essence and Existence (Exodus 20:2). 2. Faith of the Unity of God (Deuteronomy 6:4; chapter 32:39). 3. Love of God (Deuteronomy 6:5; chapter 10:12).

Fearing God is worshipping God; as you may see clearly by two texts of Scripture compared together. In the fourth chapter of Matthew, verse 10, Christ says to the Devil, It is written you shall worship the Lord your God, and him only you shall serve; compare this with (Deuterono…

Secondly, a man must sweareby him that is greater then himselfe, and therefore God sware by himselfe because there was no greater to sweare by; where it seems, the Holy Spirit takes it for graunted, that there is no lawfull swearing by the creatures; because they are not greater…

Surely, hereby he declares himself to be the true doctor of his Church: for hauing a waightie point of doctrine in hand, which the nature of man in vnwilling to receive and practise, he dos beside the propounding and confirming of it, thus vrge it by peecemeale, that hereby it m…

Here then behold, how the heads of families preserued Gods word, and true religion, in the beginning of the world; namely, by teaching it to their posteritie: and from them we may learne, what is the duty, and ought to bee the practise of every gouernour of a family at this day:…

Now, Christ is said, and that in the past tense, to have had this vineyard, which shows his interest and ownership therein, and title thereto, and that by an eternal right, and a far other kind of title than he has to the rest of the world beside: Now this right of Christ's (in…

First, the law of God is infinitely spiritual, and obliges us not only to the performance of the external duties of obedience; but requires also the absolute perfection of the inward dispositions; not only that our love of God be sincere and cordial; but that it must be intense…

For the first, I assert, that an oath is so far from being always sinful; that it is sometimes a duty, indeed, an act of religion, and part of the service and worship of God; and therefore not only lawful but necessary. This we find (Deuteronomy 6:13): You shall fear the Lord yo…

This not only seems to be in it self most consonant to Reason, and is a Duty generally allowed in New-England, but is evidently a great Institution of the Word of God, appointed as a very important Part of that public Religion by which God's People should give Honour to his Name…

A gracious soul earnestly desires a free condition in the world, he is sensible he has much work to do, a race to run, and is loath to be clogged or have his foot in the snare of the cares or pleasures of this life. He knows that fullness exposes to wantonness and irreligion (De…

Now to convince such careless Parents of the heinousness of their sin, let these four Queries be solemnly considered. Whether this be a sufficient discharge of that great duty which God has laid upon Christian Parents, in reference to their families? That God has charged them wi…

For it is the proper work of the Spirit to make us holy, and he bears the name of the Holy Ghost, and of the spirit of sanctification upon that reason; and therefore where self is the man's god, what room is left to holiness, and to the influences of grace? And where the love of…

Arg. 2. Swearing is a part of the Worship of [〈◊〉], and therefore prophane swearing can be no less than the profanation of his worship, and robbing[••] him of all the glory he has thereby, Deuteronomy 6:13.[•]You shalt fear the Lord your God, and serve him, and shalt swear by hi…

4. To the set times of catechizing children, let other occasions of teaching them piety be added: as at table, by resembling the spiritual food of their souls to that bodily food whereby their bodies are nourished: when they are walking abroad, by showing them the stars, how the…

God does sometimes accept of willingness without the work, but never the work without willingness. 3. God's covenant people are a consecrated people, they have holiness to the Lord written upon them; [reconstructed: casta placent superis] — (Deuteronomy 7:6): You are a holy peop…

Resp. God sees all the sins of men, but is no more defiled with them, than the sun is defiled with the vapours that arise out of the earth: God sees sin not as a patron to approve it, but as a judge to punish it. Use 1. Is God so infinitely holy, then see how unlike to God sin i…

Indeed, but who shall be judge of their love? God says, they hate him: they give religious adoration to a creature: these hate God, and God hates them: and they shall never live with God, whom he hates: he will never lay such vipers in his bosom: heaven is kept as paradise, with…

Answer. In man's reason it may seem so indeed: yet it could not be a cruel part, because they did no more than that which God commanded them. For, it was God's ordinance, that the Canaanites should be rooted out, and that the Israelites should show no compassion on them, Deutero…

Yes, he frequently declares, that he took them into Covenant, not only without respect to any thing of good in them, but although they were evil and stubborn. See (Deuteronomy 7:7, 8); Chapter 9. 4, 5. 2. It is contrary to the nature, ends and express properties of this Covenant.

This seems a plain granting of the Synod's saying, and of their proof of it. Whereas the Synod said, That the parents in question are keepers of the covenant, because they are not forsakers, and rejecters of the God, and covenant of their fathers; and alleged for this (Deuterono…

In the next place, how aptly these blessings are suited among themselves; first mercy, then peace, and then love; mercy does not differ much from that which is called grace in Paul's Epistles, only grace does more respect the bounty of God, as mercy does our want and need: by me…

For among the other crimes which the Spirit of God has branded the Romans with, this is one, that they were haters of God (Romans 1:3). And God says he will repay them that hate him to their face (Deuteronomy 7:10). And if the experience of former ages has left this doubtful, I…

1. Commands. Thus shall you deal with them, you shall destroy their altars, break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire (Deuteronomy 7:5), and again verse 25, the graven images of their gods, shall you burn with fire, you shall not…

And indeed that deliverance was an earnest of their perpetual security, by special providence in any succeeding trouble. And God often gives them a particular charge to remember that deliverance, with a practical remembrance to still their fear, and support their faith (Deuteron…

And again, the word signifies saw-dust that comes from timber that is sawn, and so it shall be broken in pieces: look as the calf in the wilderness was broken even to dust, to powder, and Moses made the people drink of it; so God will serve this calf. And then further observe: i…

He took the stone he had placed under his head, and set it up as a pillar; the Latin Vulgate renders it "in titulum," and the Greeks render it as a stele. The Hebrew word translated "he set up" is the same as the word for "statue," as we noted earlier; the same term is used in t…

IV. Whoever he was, no one can doubt that he gave a notable specimen of defection from the principles of evangelical theology. Now from this impious mixture — which was the source and origin of the ecclesiastical defection that occurred first after the entrance of sin (Genesis 6…

1. The men chosen and drawn, are by head designed. Jacob, not Esau, before the children had done good or evil; though Esau be elder, Isaac must be the Son of the promise: father and mother were free grace, rather [illegible] of Abraham and Sarah, now [reconstructed: past] nature…

The point being a matter of sense, and evident by natural light, needs not to be proved so much as improved. 1. Scripture represents him as such (Daniel 9:4): he is called the great and dreadful God, so (Deuteronomy 7:21): a mighty God and terrible, and (Nahum 1:5): a great and…

Answer: The good will and pleasure of God. Moses says, God chose the Israelites above all nations (Deuteronomy 7:6); he loved them (Deuteronomy 10:15); when he [reconstructed: divided] the nations, Jacob was his portion (Deuteronomy 32:8). He knew them above all nations, says Am…

This authority shows itself, specially in two things: in the marriage, and in the calling of the child. In the marriage of the child, the parent is the principal agent, and the disposer thereof (Deuteronomy 7:3; Exodus 34:16; 1 Corinthians 7:38). Where observe, that the commandm…

Now these were the Jews' near neighbors, and hated them deadly: these were the remainder of the nations which the Israelites had spared, although the Lord had expressly commanded them to be wholly rooted out. The people's infidelity was the cause why the Lord suffered this remna…

But I expound it otherwise, and refer it to the election of the people, who were taken from the midst of other nations, much more excellent than they: so as there is a comparison here between the Jews and other nations. Which Moses also shows when he says: That they were not cho…

and again, "who keeps covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations," (Deuteronomy 7:9) By these words, he not only declares, that he will always be like himself, but expresses the favor which he continues to manifest towards his…

When Paul says, that the Jews under the law were nigh to God, (Ephesians 2:17,) and that a deadly enmity (Ephesians 2:15) subsisted between him and the Gentiles, he means only that, by shadows and figures, God then gave to the people whom he had adopted the tokens of his presenc…

And those who know any thing of the Nature of Faith, or of the Love of God, any thing of Entercourse or Communion with him by Jesus Christ, any thing of Thankefulness, Obedience or Holiness, will not be easily perswaded, but that Gods Electing Love and Grace, is a mighty constra…

This is still the close of all gracious issues of providence, God has done all according as he promised (Joshua 22:4; 2 Samuel 7:21). He brought out his people of old, with a mighty hand, with temptations, signs and wonders, and a stretched out arm, and all, because he would kee…

To be love, full of love, to be the especial spring of all fruits of love, is peculiar to him as the Father. And from love it is that he makes the revelation of his will whereof we speak (Deuteronomy 7:8; c. 33.3; Psalm 147:19, 20; 2 Corinthians 5:18, 19). It was out of infinite…

24. That we covet not, or turn to our use, any things, wherewith Idols have been adorned (Deuteronomy 27:25). 25. That we make no profit of any thing that belongs to false worship (Deuteronomy 7:26). 26. That no City seduced to Idolatry and destroyed, be ever built again (Deuter…

And this the most take to be total and final, the persons that fall under it being left to the judgement of God without hope of reconciliation to the Church. Hence it is called in the Targum (Numbers 21:25; Deuteronomy 7:27) the curse, the execration of God; and by the Talmudist…

To this head also I refer. That sovereignty which has place in choosing and calling nations, as Israel because he freely loves (Deuteronomy 7:7), Israel, and their seed, not other nations (Deuteronomy 10:7), he says, preach to Macedonia, not to Bithynia, and though afterward the…

His love arose only and wholly from himself: in the parties loved, there was nothing but matter of hatred before they were loved. Moses thus says of the love of God to Israel, The Lord did not set his love upon you because you were more in number, but because the Lord loved you…

2. God has given express laws concerning this point. To omit that general moral law, Honor your father and your mother (which, as it is the ground of all other duties pertaining to children, so of this also) the authority and charge which God by his law (Deuteronomy 7:3) has lai…

The rules that God has set men to live by are universally just, and there is a universal obligation upon all men to obey them, but as they are particularly addressed to his own people in his word, they are out of question particularly bound to yield obedience, and have many pecu…

But it was because the ordinance and duty was of God, the failing was only in the manner of preparation to it (2 Chronicles 30:18, 19, 20). But if Micah set up an invention of his own in his house, though he may promise himself a blessing in some orderly circumstance of it, (as…

As God with Amalek (Exodus 17, last verse), he commanded it to be written [reconstructed: as] a memorial in a book, for God has sworn he will have war with [reconstructed: Amalek] forever, and put out his name from under Heaven; this hatred as in deadly feuds gives no quarter, t…

2. Vain. False, because it crosses that liberty which [illegible] the Lord challenges and uses in the dispensation of [illegible] means of salvation, without any respect to the [illegible] use of the gifts of nature; the Lord chose a [reconstructed: people] to himself of the wea…

If you say that the Ephesians were in Covenant, but not their seed, and so they were not strangers, I answer that the Apostle does not set out their cursed estate merely because they were without any Covenant, but because they were strangers to that Covenant of promise which the…

And Samuel (1 Samuel 12:22), Joshua (Joshua 24:22-25), and Mary (Luke 1:55), and Zechariah (Luke 1:70, 72, 73) refer to the Covenant made with Abraham. And (Deuteronomy 6) the Covenant at Horeb, the Lord made with Abraham to give Canaan to his seed (Deuteronomy 6:10; Deuteronomy…

It must be a narrow blessing of covenanted Egypt, Assyria, Israel, if it be a blessing of these come to age, 2. professing the faith, 3. and baptized. How can the Lord say, blessed be Egypt, and though the whole seed be visibly in covenant, old and young, yet it follows not that…

Though this be spoken to all the covenanted people of God, yet are infants cast out of the bosom of a Covenant Father and God? (5.) Infants are debarred from Covenant-calling and gathering in under the wings of Christ: contrary to Matthew 28:19-20, Matthew 23:37, Psalm 147:19-20…

Hence there is no ground at all, nor truth in what Arminians say, that the covenant of Grace is made with all and every one of mankind, as was the covenant of Works. For this must be true, that in Paradise, the covenant of Grace was made with Adam, and all his seed: but a covena…

Q. 1. If multitudes and people externally covenanted with God, though not internally, whom the Lord calls his people and chosen by him (Deuteronomy 7:6, Deuteronomy 10:15), be the rightly constituted and visible church, as Mr. Thomas Hooker grants, then kingdoms must be his visi…

But 2. Justification by grace does not, in iisdem apicibus, in the same points, have the same adversaries. 1. Moses and the Prophets contend most with ceremonial hypocrites, who sought righteousness much in ceremonies, washings, sacrifices, new moons, and also their own inherent…

As: first, "I will engrave my Law in their heart"; second, "I will be their God"; third, "They shall be my people" — to wit, effectually as gifted with a new heart, and such as shall never be cast off, but shall persevere to the end (verses 35-37; Jeremiah 32:40). Otherwise, by…

And there may be running and no sending of God to Nations (Jeremiah 23:21), and (Psalm 147:19-20) when he denies, he declared his judgments and his statutes to any Nation, by sent Prophets, as he did to Jacob, if the Gospel then was of itself preachable to all Nations, Prophets…

So it was in the day of Midian, the Lord sent a panic terror among the Midianites, which was a sign of the day of tumult in the host of Midian. This some take to be meant by the Hornet (though I believe that was literally fulfilled) spoken of (Deuteronomy 7:20). Augustine, and s…

But suppose he should be so understood; it is most uncertain that by the buying of these false teachers is meant his purchasing of them with the ransom of his blood. The word translated 'buying' in the Old Testament signifies any deliverance, as Deuteronomy 7:8, 15:15, Jeremiah…

The Greek word signifies the putrid matter of ulcers. Sin is called [illegible], an abomination,(Deuteronomy 7:25). Nay, in the plural, abominations, (Deuteronomy 20:18).

This is their glory or they have none; is it in their number, that they are great, many, and populous? God thinks not so, nor did he when he gave an account of his thoughts of his People of old (Deuteronomy 7:7): The Lord did not set his love upon you nor chose you, because you…

Hereupon they reason that we are not justified by faith alone. For thus says the Lord: And it shall be, if you shall hear these commandments and judgments, and shall keep them and do them, the Lord also shall keep with you his covenant and mercy which he has sworn to your father…

But to what end this tends, it is noted in diverse places in the law. For when the Lord does vouchsafe to deal thus mercifully with us, to call us into the company of his people, he chooses us (says Moses) that we should be a peculiar people to himself, a holy people, and should…

2. The Catholic covenant of grace made with the great sister the church universal, was first laid down in pawn in their hand; they put their hand first to the contract, in subscribing the marriage contract (Jeremiah 2:3). Israel was holy to the Lord, and the first fruits of his…

No, were they more precious and honorable actually before God from eternity, than the rest of the nations? No, the contrary is evident (Ezekiel 16:3; Deuteronomy 7:7-8; Psalms 147:19-20; Deuteronomy 26:5). Certainly, if faith or conversion to God (a special part of which is fait…

They rob God who take the glory due to God to themselves. 1. If they have gotten an estate, they ascribe all to their own wit and industry, they set the crown upon their own head, not considering that (Deuteronomy 8:18): You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he that gi…

Quest. 1. Why God lets his people be in the House of Bondage, in an afflicted state? Resp. He does it: 1. For probation for trial (Deuteronomy 8:16). Who led you through that terrible wilderness that he might humble you and prove you.

We are fed every day out of the alms-basket of God's providence. That in health, that we have an estate, it is not our diligence but God's providence (Deuteronomy 8:18). You shalt remember the Lord your God, for he it is that gives you power to get wealth.

(1.) Our own skill and industry. God is the giver; he gives daily bread (Psalm 136:25); he gives riches (Deuteronomy 8:18): "He it is that gives you power to get wealth." Or, (2.) We often ascribe the praise to second causes, and forget God.

My son despise not the chastening of the Lord, neither be weary of his correction. And why does God say (Deuteronomy 8:16), He proved them to do them good; when he says, my love, it is more than lovely, it is love, it is love itself; and fair one is more than fair? It is good fo…

God has other ends in making trial of our graces and bringing them to light. The same end that God had in leading his people through the great wilderness where no water was, where scorpions stung them (Deuteronomy 8:16) — which was to prove them — the same ends God has in suffer…

Second, it is a means to humble. So in Deuteronomy 8:16 the end of the stinging of the Israelites by scorpions — which were types of these stings and terrors — was, as to prove, so also to humble them. And for this end was that buffeting by Satan we have so often mentioned (2 Co…

God makes trial of his servants, not because he is ignorant of that which is in their heart; for, he understands their thoughts long before: but because he will have their obedience made known; partly to themselves, and partly to the world: so that he makes trial of his servants…

The Lord (says Job) knows my way and tries me; Job 23:10. Deuteronomy 8:2, Remember all the way (says Moses to the Israelites) which the Lord your GOD led you, this forty years, for to prove you and to know what was in your heart. Hence James calls temptations, the trial of fait…

Thus God dealeth with his servants always: he exerciseth them many and strange ways in this world. He led the Israelites in the deserts of Arabia forty years; whereas a man may travel from Rameses in Egypt to any part of Canaan in forty days: and this God did to humble them, and…

God tempts his servants only to correct and humble them for their sins, and to try how they will abide the cross, and to move them the more to love him. (Deuteronomy 8:2) God afflicts the children of Israel, to try them whether they would keep his commandments. (2 Chronicles 32:…

This was the highest judicatory, from where there was no appeal, as there might be from the lower courts to this: into this assembly were chosen such as did excel others for nobility and wisdom; and that by a solemn laying on of hands; strangers or unclean persons, or common peo…

God tempts his servants only to correct and humble them for their sins, and to try how they will abide the cross, and to move them the more to love him. (Deuteronomy 8:2) God afflicts the children of Israel, to try them whether they would keep his commandments. (2 Chronicles 32:…

From hence cometh it, that we fear not in greatest dangers (2 Kings 6:16; Psalm 3:7; Psalm 27:3); that in the time of affliction, we are patient (Proverbs 20:22; Hebrews 10:33); without all murmuring to hold our peace (Psalm 39:10); receiving them as from a father (Job 1:21; Psa…

The other two, of things of the life to come. The first is disposed in an axiom simple of the subject, and the adjoint, God's giving, occupied in providing bread, saying thus: Give us that which is not in our power, and whereof we are unworthy (Deuteronomy 8:18), even bread, tha…

(1 Samuel 3:18) It is the Lord, let him do what seems good to him. 2. For what end God the Lord did this, is a circumstance of comfort; why led the Lord Israel through a great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery scorpions, and serpents, and drought? (Deuteronomy 8:16) Th…

The former was clear and evident, the force of the temptation lay not there; but the latter, which Satan sought to make most advantage of, is clearly refuted. Christ's answer is taken out of Deuteronomy 8:3. And this answer is not given for the tempter's sake, but ours; that we…

Because of their weakness and infirmity he lays aside his majesty, and reassumes the habit of his humiliation; as Moses did put a veil upon his face, that the people might endure his sight and presence. God's appearing at first may be terrible, but the issue is sweet and comfort…

Now we for our parts, make five other uses of our sufferings. First, they serve for trial of men, that it may appear what is hidden in their hearts (Deuteronomy 8:2). Secondly, they serve for the correction of things amiss in us (1 Corinthians 11:23).

No other reason can be assigned, why the fury of Satan meets with so little resistance, and why so many are everywhere carried away by him, but that God punishes their carelessness, and their contempt of his word. We must now examine more closely the passage, which is quoted by…

And before God wrought that great Deliverance for them at the Red Sea, they were brought into great Distress, the Wilderness had shut them in, they could not turn to the right Hand nor the left, and the Red Sea was before them, and the great Egyptian Host behind, and they were b…

This also is a sweet principle of peace and quiet to the Christians mind, that he knows not, but his good may be imported in what seemed to threaten his ruine. Many were the distresses and straits of Israel in the Wilderness, but all was to humble them, that he might do them goo…

I don't give, but lend my self to business. Remember always, the success of your Callings and earthly Imployments is by Divine blessing, not humane diligence alone, Deuteronomy 8:18 Thou shalt remember the Lord they God; for it is he that gives you power to get wealth. The Devil…

Further they are observed to be rocks of flint (Psalm 114:8), which turned the rock into a standing water, the flint into a fountain of waters. So (Deuteronomy 8:15), a rock into a pool, and a flint into a stream, is much beyond Samson's riddle, of sweetness from the eater. 2. T…

(Deuteronomy 33:8) And of Levi he said, Let your Thummim and your Urim be with your holy one, whom you did prove at Massah, and with whom you did strive at the waters of Meribah. The mercy likewise that ensued in giving them water from the Rock, is most frequently celebrated (De…

4. Fear of God (Deuteronomy 6:13). 5. Acknowledgment of God's Righteousness in Afflictions (Deuteronomy 8:5). 6. Prayer to God (Exodus 23:25; Deuteronomy 11:13).

When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless the Lord. Beware you forget not the Lord your God for the good land which he has given you, and say in your heart, my power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth, but you shall remember the Lord your God, for it…

5. God does expect that London should be humble under these judgements. God inflicted judgements on the children of Israel in the wilderness, to humble them (Deuteronomy 8:16), and he promises after the sorest distresses which he brings his people into for their sins, to remembe…

Their love to God is spoken of as distinguished like the love of a bride at her espousals. The going after God in the wilderness that is here spoken of, is not the going of the children of Israel out of Egypt into the wilderness of Sinai, but their following God through that dre…

"Thou breakest the heads of leviathan in pieces." So as to feeding a multitude in a wilderness: Deuteronomy 8:16. "Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna."

In prosperity a man is apt to judge amiss of himself, not only because ignorance deceiveth the mind; but because of the present contentment he has, he is unwilling to be disquieted with any thoughts of disparagement: Adversity though it be a hard Tyrant, yet it is a true Judge;…

A good woman once compared her afflictions to her children: For (says she) they put me in pain in bearing them; yet as I know not which child, so neither which affliction I conld be without. Sometimes the Lord sanctifies affliction to discover the corruption that is in the heart…

You hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the Land. It is not in the power of any man to get Riches, Deuteronomy 8:18. You shalt remember the Lord your God, for it is He that gives you power to get wealth. It is his Blessing that makes good men ri…

When he purposed to bring a famine on the world, he sent a man beforehand to lay up provision for his Church (Genesis 45:7). When his Church was in a barren and dry wilderness, he gave them bread from heaven, water out of the rock, and kept their clothing from growing old, and t…

How is God said to tempt man? When he tries what is in us (Deuteronomy 8:2). To humble you, and to prove you, to know what was in your heart: either what of grace, or what of sin, is in our heart.

If they come to us by inheritance, it is the providence of God that a man is born of rich friends, and not of beggars: (Proverbs 22:2) The rich and poor meet together; the Lord is the maker of them all: He that has cast the world first into hills and valleys, it was he that disp…

Because they might still depend upon him. And so the reason why God fed the Israelites with Manna, he might have fed them with Bread in an ordinary fashion, but the reason is set down in Deuteronomy 8:2. for this end that you might know that man lives not by bread but by every w…

God has an aim in all things that befall you. The general aim of all afflictions, it is to try, purge, and make white (Daniel 11:35), or as it is in (Deuteronomy 8:13), To humble you, prove you, and do you good at the latter end; your enemies, they may intend harm, but God means…

Now what is God's aim and end in afflictions? In general, to try, purge, and make white (Daniel 11:35), or as it is (Deuteronomy 8:10): "To humble you, and prove you, and do you good at the latter end." Let us take that method — here is God's end.

Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness. Deuteronomy 8:18: But you shall remember the Lord your God, for he it is that gives you power to get wealth. Espe…

In prosperity, for a regulation and restraint to their affections, that they might not too freely run out on the creature to the wrong of God. It is said of the wicked (Psalm 55:19): "Because they have no changes therefore they fear not God" — but God's children remember him in…

Haste never speaks well of God, nor his promises, nor makes any good comment upon his dealings. 3. We must distinguish between that which is really best for us, and what we judge best for us (Deuteronomy 8:15, 16): Who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein…

Charge them that are rich in the world, that they be not high minded (1 Timothy 6:17). Moses says, Take heed when you have eaten, and are full, and your gold and silver is multiplied, lest your heart be lifted up (Deuteronomy 8:12-14). Our hearts are mighty apt to be lifted up b…

2. God does it for the exercise and trial of their grace. That this is one end of God's dark dispensations to his people, we are told in Deuteronomy 8:16: To prove you. And we may see the reason or ground of it in these things.

On purpose therefore does God suffer such temptations to intervene, that his wisdom may be the more admired in opening all these, and leading his Saints that way to glory, by which Satan thought to have brought them to hell. The Israelites are bid remember all the way that God l…

The believers comfort is like Israels Manna: 'tis not like our ordinary bread and provision; we buy at market and lock up in our Cupboards where we can go to it when we will; no, it is rained as that was from heaven. Indeed God provided for them after this sort to humble them, D…

2. It was the Covenant made with Abraham, which was a Covenant of Grace: and though it be called (Deuteronomy 29:1) a Covenant beside that which was made in Horeb — because: 1. Renewed again after their breach; 2. Repeated a little before the death of Moses (Deuteronomy 31:28-30…

Now the people and Levites, and house of David were never so multiplied in the Jews, after the deliverance from Babylon, and therefore must be extended to the New Testament. And if God establish David's seed forever (Psalm 89:4) and the seed of his people shall possess the gates…

12. This is the end of all the afflictions God sends, whether it be sickness in our bodies, or losses in our estates, that he may awaken us out of our sins, and make the waters of Repentance flow. Why did God lead Israel that march in the wilderness among fiery Serpents, but tha…

How did he Trumpet forth free grace? A proud man will never be thankful, he looks upon all his mercies, to be either of his own procuring or deserving; if he hath an Estate, this he hath gotten by his wit and industry, not considering that Scripture, Deuteronomy 8. 18. Thou shal…

All covenants were of old solemnly written in tables of brass or stone, where they might be faithfully preserved for the use of the parties concerned. So the Old Covenant as to the principal fundamental part of it, was engraven in tables of stone, which were kept in the Ark (Exo…

The Land of Canaan was given to the posterity of Abraham by promise. And therefore does God so often mind them of the freedom of it, that it was an act of mere love and sovereign grace, which in themselves they were so far from deserving as that they were altogether unworthy of…

We promise much when we want deliverance, and when we have it, God is neglected; but he will not put it up so, by sad and disastrous accidents he puts us in mind of our old promises. 2. When you kiss your own hand, bless your dragge, ascribe it to your merit and power (Habakkuk…

God does not reprove them there for making Covenant, for then he were contrary to himself, who elsewhere called them to do it (Exodus 29; Deuteronomy 29), and commended them for it (Psalm 50:5), yes and in that very place of Ezekiel 16 acknowledges a Covenant between him and the…

XII. 2. "That whatever spiritual privileges either they themselves or their forebears obtained, and moreover all the singular benefits of which they had become partakers, had come to them from God's pure grace alone, without any regard for their works or services." The passage f…

Life — that is, the life of justification, and of sanctification, consolation and comfort to his soul notwithstanding his sin; the promise is evident, he shall prevail with God, to bestow life upon his brother. This you shall see evident from Scripture (Deuteronomy 9:25-26): I f…

They make many turnings to escape God's judgment; but the Prophet affirms, that he is always good to those which honor him. And albeit Moses in this sense calls him a consuming fire (Deuteronomy 9:3), lest his majesty and power should be despised; yet whoever he be that shall dr…

Which Moses also shows when he says: That they were not chosen because they were more in number than any other people; for they were the fewest (Deuteronomy 7:7), but because the Lord loved them, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn to their fathers (Deuteronomy…

And it is very unreasonable, upon several accounts, to suppose that the apostle by their own righteousness, intends only their ceremonial righteousness. For when the apostle warns us against trusting in our own righteousness for justification, doubtless it is fair to interpret t…

First, Upon the sin of the people, from where he gave a double name to the place where they sinned, for a memorial to all generations; he called it Massah and Meribah; which words our Apostle renders by [in non-Latin alphabet] and [in non-Latin alphabet], chap. 3.9. Temptation,…

The preparation for the directions which God gave for the building of this Tabernacle is declared, Exodus 24. The body of the people having heard the Law, that is, the ten Words or Commandments, which was all they heard (Deuteronomy 9:10), (what God spake to them was written in…

And accordingly are those words to be interpreted where the cause of this Sacrifice is expressed (Leviticus 4:2): If a soul sin [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], by error, ignorance, imprudently against any of the commandments of the Lord, as it ought not to do, and shall do against…

But is this safe to ascribe the comfort and blessings that we have to our own obedience? Is it not expressly forbidden (Deuteronomy 9:4)? Say not in your heart, for my righteousness has the Lord brought me to possess the land.

2. Vain. False, because it crosses that liberty which [illegible] the Lord challenges and uses in the dispensation of [illegible] means of salvation, without any respect to the [illegible] use of the gifts of nature; the Lord chose a [reconstructed: people] to himself of the wea…

Kingdoms shake, Nations shake, yet let us not be dismayed, for the Lord will carry on his own good work and glorious designs, in the midst of these troubles. It is said (Deuteronomy 9:25) that the city should be built in troublous times: the Lord is carrying on the building of h…

How many contingencies did [illegible], his piercing eye run through, to foresee the crowning of Esther, for the deliverance of his people. In a word; known to God are all his works: now what can possibly be imagined to be more contingent, than the killing of a man by the fall o…

Now herein, I beseech your Lordship, that I may offer these two things. First, this is but the single testimony of one man, and by the law of God, and of the land, a man must not die, but under the testimony of two or three witnesses, in the Old Testament, Deuteronomy 9 and 15:…

Virtue is easier than vice; temperance is less burdensome than drunkenness: Some have gone with less pains to heaven, than others have to hell. Consideration 2. God commands nothing but what is beneficial (Deuteronomy 10:12-13). O Israel what does the Lord require of you, but to…

We are to be thankful to God for precepts; had not he set his commandments as a hedge or bar in our way, we might have run to hell and never stopped. 2. There is nothing in the commandment but what is for our good (Deuteronomy 10:13). To keep the commandments of the Lord and his…

As if a king commands his subject to dig in a mine of gold, and then gives him all the gold he has dug. God bids us do his will, and this is for our good; (Deuteronomy 10:13) And now O Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, and keep th…

And this is that, which most commonly in the Scripture is called by the name of the worship of God; as that whereby all the acceptable actings of the souls of men towards him are expressed, and the only way of owning and acknowledging him in the World, as also of entertaining a…

And this as it is sufficiently manifested in the Scriptures quoted in answer to this question, so it is at large declared in the writings of those holy and good men, who have explained the nature of gospel ordinances, and therefore in particular we need not here insist much in t…

And thus far outward worship is required in the first Commandment; namely, that the inward be exercised and expressed. When we take God for our God, we take him to worship him (Deuteronomy 10:12-13). Other thoughts, namely of inward worship, without outward expression at all, or…

God carried Abraham forth in the night, and bade him count the stars if he could, and said, so shall thy seed be. And Moses afterwards uses the same comparison, Deuteronomy 10:22. Our Fathers went down into Egypt 70 persons, and now the Lord hath made us as the stars of the sky…

Sometimes it is called the Ark of the Testimony (Exodus 26:33; Chapter 29. 35; Chapter 40. 3, 5). Most commonly the Ark of the Covenant (Numbers 10:33; Chapter 14. 44; Deuteronomy 10:8; &c.). Sometimes the Ark of God (1 Samuel 3:3; 2 Samuel 6:2; &c.).

When he biddeth us love our neighbor, he sets limits to it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself; but when he biddeth us love God, he requireth all the heart: the only measure is to love him without measure. The next place that I shall take notice of, where the precept is re…

Paul expounds it exclusively — "in your seed only" (Galatians 3:16). So (Deuteronomy 10:20): "You shall fear the Lord your God, and serve him." Christ expounds it (Luke 4:8) exclusively: "You shall serve only the Lord," because it is the prerogative of God to be worshipped, as i…

4. The places out of which it is cited are two: (Deuteronomy 6:13): You shalt fear the Lord your God, and serve him, and swear by his name. And again (Deuteronomy 10:20): You shalt fear the Lord your God, and serve him, and to him shalt you cleave. Christ according to the Septua…

Answer: The good will and pleasure of God. Moses says, God chose the Israelites above all nations (Deuteronomy 7:6); he loved them (Deuteronomy 10:15); when he [reconstructed: divided] the nations, Jacob was his portion (Deuteronomy 32:8). He knew them above all nations, says Am…

Again, “And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul?” (Deuteronomy 10:12.) Vain and deceitful, also, would hav…

For, as Jeremiah (5:3) tells us that the eyes of the Lord behold the truth, so they that believe in his word are instructed to maintain true godliness in such a manner as to cleave to righteousness with an honest and perfect heart; as in these words, And now, O Israel, what doth…

Be ye fervent in Spirit, serving the Lord. Deuteronomy 10:12. And now Israel, What doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his Ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God, with all thy Heart, and with all thy Soul?

And if that had been the End whereunto the Law of the Sabbath had been designed, had it been absolutely capable of Abolition in this world, it had not been safeguarded in the Ark, with the other Nine, which are inseparable from man's Covenant Obedience to God, but had been left…

6. Prayer to God (Exodus 23:25; Deuteronomy 11:13). 7. Adherence to God (Deuteronomy 10:20). 8. To swear by the name of God (Exodus 6:13; Deuteronomy 10:20).

The end therefore God appointed the making of this Ark, was to put therein § 10 [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩] the Testimony (Exodus 25:16), that is the two Tables of stone engraved on all sides with the ten Commandments, pronounced by the ministry of angels, written with the finger…

And in answer hereunto it is termed in the New Testament, [⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩], that sin, that evil thing that dwelleth in us (Romans 7). Secondly, They say, that Moses calleth it, [⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩], praeputium, or uncircumcision (Deuteronomy 10:16). And therefo…

Thirdly, judgment as well of the oath, as of his own person: for the oath; he that swears rightly, ought to know the nature of an oath, and be able to judge of the matter whereabout he swears, and also discerne rightly of the persons before whome, of time, place, and other circu…

And in the Second Epistle of Saint John (2 John 6): This is love, that we walk after his commandments. And that which is a most cogent motive, your own interest and eternal concerns engage you to it: For what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God,…

For it is the proper work of the Spirit to make us holy, and he bears the name of the Holy Ghost, and of the spirit of sanctification upon that reason; and therefore where self is the man's god, what room is left to holiness, and to the influences of grace? And where the love of…

To this head also I refer. That sovereignty which has place in choosing and calling nations, as Israel because he freely loves (Deuteronomy 7:7), Israel, and their seed, not other nations (Deuteronomy 10:7), he says, preach to Macedonia, not to Bithynia, and though afterward the…

Though therefore the Church, through her weakness, does depart from him, and play the harlot, yet return again to me, says the Lord (Jeremiah 3:1). Learn we by this pattern to cleave close to the Lord, which is a duty most due to Christ who cleaves so close to us, and therefore…

This is the generation of them that seek him. Thus (Deuteronomy 10:14-15). So (Exodus 19:5), from where this is taken; for all the earth is mine, and that nation which is a figure of the elect of all nations, God's peculiar, beyond all others in the world.

The external part of it (which we call the sign) was the cutting off the foreskin of the genital part of the Hebrew males, on the eighth day from their birth. The spiritual mystery thereby signified and represented was the cutting off the filth and guilt of sin from their souls,…

A man shall provide better for himself in seeking Gods glory then in looking immediately to his own preservation. Therefore you shall find, Deuteronomy 10:13. This is that the Lord your God requires of you that you keep his commandments that he has given you for your wealth.

Are we stronger than he? Sinning is an entering the lists with God, as if they could carry their cause against him; and therefore one great cure of hardness of heart and impenitency, is seriously to meditate upon God's power (Deuteronomy 10:16-17). Circumcise therefore the fores…

2. The profitableness of obedience, and how much it conduces to our good. Deuteronomy 10:13. The statutes which I command you for your good. Our labor in the work of obedience is not lost, or misspent.

We serve God, when we render to him his natural worship. So it is intimated in (Deuteronomy 10:12): Fear the Lord your God, walk in His ways, love him, and serve the Lord your God with all your heart. When we hope in God, when we call on God, when we cleave to God, then we serve…

The sails of a mill cannot move of themselves, but when the wind blows they turn round; when a breath of the Spirit blows upon the soul, the sails of the affections move swiftly in duty. All Christ's commands are beneficial, therefore not grievous (Deuteronomy 10:12-13): what do…

There is nothing in the whole moral Law of God (in conformity to which this image did, ab origine, consist) nothing of what he requires from man, that is at all destructive of his being; prejudicial to his comforts, repugnant to his most innate principles; nothing that clashes w…

Secondly, when you know this and consider what the Lord is, and what excellency is in him, consider in the next place the greatnesse of the Lord, and know that this great God is suiter to you for your love, that is, he that makes towards you: If a great King, or if your potent n…

There is much good hereby in respect of the parents; for, suppose the children cannot profit by it, yet parents may, and it is in respect of them very much that God looks upon their children, thus to receive them into covenant (Deuteronomy 4:37). For, 1. Parents may hereby see,…

So they expound (Exodus 20:20) the other Covenant was to restrain from all sin. Indeed and so was that on Mount Sinai, to do all that are written in the Book of the Law (Deuteronomy 27:26; Deuteronomy 28:1-4, etc.) to that same end, to love God with all the heart, and with all t…

(2.) The Covenant choice on God's part is extended to the seed (Deuteronomy 4:37). And because he loved your Fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them (Deuteronomy 10:15). Only the Lord had a delight in your Fathers, to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even…

Though this be spoken to all the covenanted people of God, yet are infants cast out of the bosom of a Covenant Father and God? (5.) Infants are debarred from Covenant-calling and gathering in under the wings of Christ: contrary to Matthew 28:19-20, Matthew 23:37, Psalm 147:19-20…

Hence there is no ground at all, nor truth in what Arminians say, that the covenant of Grace is made with all and every one of mankind, as was the covenant of Works. For this must be true, that in Paradise, the covenant of Grace was made with Adam, and all his seed: but a covena…

Q. 1. If multitudes and people externally covenanted with God, though not internally, whom the Lord calls his people and chosen by him (Deuteronomy 7:6, Deuteronomy 10:15), be the rightly constituted and visible church, as Mr. Thomas Hooker grants, then kingdoms must be his visi…

6. The heart is new where the affections are all faith (as it were) and all sanctified, reason and zeal is a lump of angry reason, and fear a mass of shining reverence, and love only soul sickness and pure adherence to God, the instinct of faith wholly on God, as the last and on…

But 2. Justification by grace does not, in iisdem apicibus, in the same points, have the same adversaries. 1. Moses and the Prophets contend most with ceremonial hypocrites, who sought righteousness much in ceremonies, washings, sacrifices, new moons, and also their own inherent…

And there may be running and no sending of God to Nations (Jeremiah 23:21), and (Psalm 147:19-20) when he denies, he declared his judgments and his statutes to any Nation, by sent Prophets, as he did to Jacob, if the Gospel then was of itself preachable to all Nations, Prophets…

First, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself,' and 'You shall love God above all, even above yourself.' And with that also Deuteronomy 10:13-14: 'You shall keep the commandments of the Lord which I command you for your good.' Now put both together: this is God's commandment,…

So he expresss himself concerning his Word. Deut. 10:12. And now Israel, What does the Lord your God require of you, but to Fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his Ways, and to Love, and to Serve the Lord your God, with all your Heart, and with all your Soul.

If you ask Moses, after all the love and kindness the Lord had shown Israel, what Israel should do for him? You shall see his answer full (Deuteronomy 10:12-13): And now, O Israel, what does the Lord require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, and to love him and serve him wi…

I will content myself with instancing in some few of them which are directly opposite to it, even in terms. First, Deuteronomy 10:16, the Lord commands the Israelites, to circumcise the fore-skin of their hearts, and to be no more stiff-necked: so that the circumcising of their…

By what reasons are they confuted? (1) Because, swearing is a part of divine worship, which is only due to God (Deuteronomy 6:13; Deuteronomy 10:20; Isaiah 65:16). (2) Because, God only is the judge of hidden and secret truth; and the avenger to take vengeance on them, that do n…

Such mistakes as these you ever and anon fall into, and I fear for want of being conversant in Holy Writ, which it seems your principles prompt you to a neglect of. Sir, the tables prepared by Moses were no less written with the finger of God than those were which he first prepa…

You that are parents discharge your duty: though you cannot impart grace to your children, yet you may impart knowledge. Let your children know the commandments of God (Deuteronomy 11:19). You shall teach them to your children.

3. If we love our belly more than God, we make a God of it (Philippians 3:19): Whose God is their belly. Clemens Alexandrinus writes of a fish that has its heart in its belly: an emblem of epicures, their heart is in their belly, they do Sacrificare lari, their belly is their Go…

God gives us his Word as a master gives a scholar a copy to write after it; he gives it as his will and testament, that we should be the executors to see it performed. 2. This is the end of all God's promises to draw us to do God's will; the promises are lodestones to obedience,…

And (3) It is said to fall often or frequently, iteratis vicibus. The Land of Canaan is commended that it was not like the Land of Aegypt where the Seed was sowed and watered with the Foot; but that it was a Land of Hills and Valleys and did drink water of the Rain of Heaven (De…

It was the land wherein there was the ordinances of God, and the worship of God, and his honor dwelt there, and so it had a peculiar blessing upon it above all the land that was upon the face of the earth. Seventhly, it was a land over which God's eye was in a more special manne…

But Job attributes the beginning of error to the seduction of the heart. The Holy Spirit also elsewhere reveals this source of idolatry: Deuteronomy 11:16, "Beware lest your heart deceive you, and turn you away to foreign gods." All other things are naturally suited to point tow…

2. The Lord by wiles and art works upon the will: (Hosea 2:14) I will allure her, and bring her to the wilderness, and speak to her heart. The word of alluring is [in non-Latin alphabet] seductus, deceptus fuit; to be beguiled; and the Hebrew is, I will beguile, or deceive her;…

And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the Lord slew all the first born in the Land of Egypt, both the first born of Man, and the first born of beast, therefore I sacrifice to the Lord all that openeth the Matrix being Males, but all the first born of my…

5. Acknowledgment of God's Righteousness in Afflictions (Deuteronomy 8:5). 6. Prayer to God (Exodus 23:25; Deuteronomy 11:13). 7. Adherence to God (Deuteronomy 10:20).

And to this head belong all the arguments that divines make use of to prove the perfection of the Scripture, against the New Talmudists in Christianity. 5. God every where sends his people to the Written Law of Moses, for the rule of their obedience, no where to any Kabal (Deute…

Secondly, the word signifies to have a care of a thing, to have a thing or person in account as well as to call to account: to take care and be watchful over another for good is our regarding of it. In this sense the word is used (Deuteronomy 11:12), where Moses speaking concern…

Here is noted the second common blessing bestowed of God upon the world; to wit, the falling of the raine upon the ground, both of good and bad. Now here first obserue the forme of speech used by Christ, saying, God rains; see Deut. 11. 14. The Lord gius raine in due season, the…

"And I will set thy bounds from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee." So again, Deuteronomy 11:24. "Every place whereon the…

Again, here we receive great mercies from God, and we know not how to manage them; Gods mercies lie and sowre in us, we turn our mercies many times into afflictions for want of skill: but hereafter we shall have the full improvement of all mercy that we receive from God. Again,…

Therefore when the Holy Ghost would set forth that perfection of God's image first planted in man, he adds this title love to other duties, whether they concern God or man. Concerning God, Moses exhorts Israel to love the Lord and serve him: and again, to love the Lord, to walk…

Thus he speaks of both (Song of Solomon 2:14): My dove let me see your countenance, let me hear your voice, for sweet is your voice, and your countenance is comely. 2. His good providence and readiness to do them good, to supply their wants, and order their affairs for them, to…

When the word of God is in the heart, thus it will break out. And (Deuteronomy 11:19) you have the same again. This is a duty God reckons upon, that you will not omit such a necessary piece of service.

What is the end of all God's administrations but obedience? what are all God's promises but persuasions to obedience? what is the end of all God's threatenings which stand as the angel with a flaming sword in their hand, but to drive us to obedience? Deuteronomy 11:28: a curse i…

It notes a godly submission that the soul dare not speak against God (Psalm 37:7): rest in the Lord — [reconstructed: be subject to] JEHOVAH; LXX: sub ditus esto Domino (Psalm 62:6); from which faith teaches us to submit and hold our peace and lay the mouth in the dust, as a spi…

But 2. Justification by grace does not, in iisdem apicibus, in the same points, have the same adversaries. 1. Moses and the Prophets contend most with ceremonial hypocrites, who sought righteousness much in ceremonies, washings, sacrifices, new moons, and also their own inherent…

I will not recite a thousand pieces of the same sort, which since they nothing differ in sense, shall be declared by the solution of these. In sum, Moses testifies that in the law is set forth blessing and curse, death and life (Deuteronomy 11:26). Thus therefore they reason, th…

Thereby showing that it is a part of our heart's deceitfulness to draw us on first to these matters of less account, that afterward we might the more easily digest the greater. Of this Moses seems to speak, when he says to Israel, Beware lest your hearts deceive you (Deuteronomy…

Therefore some men will suffer the curse of the law, even the whole curse of the law, or all the curses mentioned in the law; which, by what has come up to our view in the last chapter, appears to be more than a discipline promoting the good of the subject. Again; Deuteronomy 11…

By what reasons are they confuted? (1.) Because, the Scriptures were given long since to the Jews, in their own common language, that they might be read publicly and privately by all (Deuteronomy 31:10-12; Deuteronomy 11:18-20). (2.) Because, the New Testament was written in the…

1. We do God's will as the angels do it in Heaven, when we do God's will regularly, sine deflexu, we go according to divine institutions, not decrees of councils, or traditions, this is to do God's will as the angels; they do it regularly, they do nothing but what is commanded;…

And the comeliness and beauty of Gospel worship, consisteth in its relation to God by Jesus Christ, as the merciful high-Priest over his house, with the glorious administration of the spirit therein. The order also of it lies in the due and regular observation of all that Christ…

Q. What is the main scope of the second commandment? A. The second commandment enjoins all that worship of God which is by divine institution and ordinance (Matthew 28:20; Deuteronomy 12:32). Q. What are some of the particulars?

Had the observation of the ordinances of divine service been left to the memories of private persons, it would quickly have issued in all manner of foolish practices, or have been utterly neglected. But God appointed this sanctuary for the preservation of the purity of his worsh…

I confess I should wholly omit such disputes; in fundamental articles, we should not allow a scruple. You shall not inquire after their Gods (Deuteronomy 12:30). But when such conceits are not only Satanical injections, but men's settled opinions, 'tis good to establish the hear…

And they did sanctify both the worshippers, and the worship performed in them, the altar sanctified the gift, the Temple sanctified the gold (Matthew 23:18, 19), insomuch that the places were principal, and the duties less principal, as divines observe. The Temple and the altar…

Take heed to yourself, that you be not snared by following them, saying, how did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. You shall not do so to the Lord your God; where observe that he speaks of the manner of worship, presupposing the true object, for every a…

For there is the same reason of carved, painted, molten images, yes, the most refined spiritual devises and inventions of men. For we are often charged neither to add nor diminish from God's appointments: whatever thing I command you, observe and do it, you shall neither add the…

I that have been struck this day, and am in such a dreadful condition, Would God have regarded the sin offering? God required joy in his services in (Deuteronomy 12:7, 18), and hence that profession was required in (Deuteronomy 26:13, 14): Then you shall say before the Lord your…

Because Ephraim has made many altars to sin, altars shall be to him to sin. It was the charge of God in Scripture, that there should be but one altar for sacrifice, and there was another altar that afterwards was made for incense, and no further, in Deuteronomy 12:3 and 5. There…

In which part, by a usual manner of the Law, a part being put for the whole, as in the 6th, 7th, and 9th commandments, and that one of the foulest, look to note the filthiness of the rest, we are forbidden generally to acknowledge, love, delight in, desire, make or use, being ma…

Thirdly, in that Ministers are pillars, we are taught to cleave to them, and their ministry, at all times, in life and death. For we are living stones in the temple of God, Christ is our foundation, and they be pillars to hold us up: and therefore not to be forsaken (Deuteronomy…

And the Lord chargs all the twelue tribes, euen all Israel. Deut 12:19. Beware that you for sakest not the Levite, solong as you liuest on the earth.

But he alludes to the custom which they held in sacrificing their first fruits to God, at what time they consecrated the revenues of the whole year, as the Law enjoined them: (Leviticus 2:12; 23:10). And this sentence is very frequent in the books of Moses; You shall eat and rej…

They are not carried here and there with a frantic and blind joy, after the manner of the children of this world, but their full and perfect joy is to repose themselves in the loving favor of God. It may be also that the Prophet alludes to that sentence which is so often found i…

And it cannot be denied but that the names of the days of the week, were the names of gods among the heathen. The prohibition is renewed (Joshua 2:7), You shall not make mention of the names of their Gods; which is yet extended farther (Deuteronomy 12:3) to a command, to destroy…

44. That if it be not redeemed, its neck be broken (Exodus 13:14). 45. That any sacred beast, that is firstling or tenth, wherein is a blemish, be redeemed (Deuteronomy 12:15). 46. That which is changed, and that which it is changed for, are to be both the Lord's (Leviticus 27:1…

Some of these are recounted by Maimonides in his Preface to Jad Chazaka; as the reading of the book or roll of Esther with fasting; lights on the Feast of Dedication; the fast on the seventh of Ab. or July; various mixtures, and washings of hands; things plainly of that nature w…

We therefore must labour for renued hearts, by the spirit of God, and reformed live[] according to the Gospel; for howsoeuer a ciuill conversation may commend us unto men, yet it will not save us in the day of the Lord. Thirdly, is this evil eie in every one by nature? then bewa…

6. Now first it was that God proceeded to choose a particular city out of all the tribes of Israel to place his name there. There is several times mention made in the law of Moses, of the children of Israel's bringing their oblations to the place which God should choose; as Deut…

Theodosius utterly cast them to the ground, though not without some blows and bloodshed (Socrat: Eccles. Hist. lib. 5. ca. 16.). The command of God for the abolishing all monuments of Idolatry (Deuteronomy 12:1, 2, 3.) with the commendation of those Kings of Judah who accordingl…

If yet the Lord will continue the truth, and him under it, he begins to clip the wings of the truth, and breaks as it were the strength of the blow, that it may not enter so deep, to the dividing of the marrow and the [reconstructed: soul], and take away such secret and sweeter…

(6.) It is a word of near adherence [⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩] to lean firmly upon any with hope of security (2 Kings 18:5): have you leaned upon this reed? (Hosea 10:13; Psalm 13:6; Psalm 31:7; Deuteronomy 12:10): you shall dwell safely, confidently; it places the soul under t…

1st Commandment: You shall have no other gods, etc. He breaks this commandment: who does not know the true God (Jeremiah 4:22); who denies God in his heart by denying his presence, justice, mercy, etc. (Psalm 14:1); who hates God and shows it by disobedience (Exodus 20:5; Romans…

(1) Because, good works are described by the Apostle to be such, as God before has ordained, that we should walk in them (Ephesians 2:10). (2) Because, God expressly commands, that every man must not do that, which seems good in his own eyes, but only such works, as he has comma…

Is the acceptable way of worshipping the true God instituted by himself, and so limited to his own revealed will, that he may not be worshipped according to the imaginations and devices of men, or the suggestions of Satan, under any visible representation, or any other way not p…

(1) Because, such a power of dispensing, is not to be found in all the Scripture. (2) Because, the Lord says expressly, whatever thing I command you, observe to do it: you shall not add to it, nor diminish from it (Deuteronomy 12:32). But the Lord himself has made these laws, an…

A worship destitute of institution, promise, command or any ground of acceptance with God. A worship wherein you do what is right in your own eyes like the people in the wilderness, and not that only which is commanded you, which God complains of and reproves (Deuteronomy 12:8,…

2. There is but one omnipotent power. If there be two omnipotents, then we must always suppose a contest between these two; that which one would do, the other power being equal would oppose, and so all things would be brought into a confusion. If a ship should have two pilots of…

If a friend's secret be imparted to us (unless in case of blood) we are not to reveal it. A friend is alter idem, as one's own soul (Deuteronomy 13:6). And what he imparts of his heart should be kept under lock and key (Proverbs 25:9).

1. All God's royal edicts and precepts are to bring us to this, to be doers of his will; what needed God been at the pains to give us the copy of his law, and write it out with his own finger else. The Word is not only a rule of knowledge, but of duty; (Deuteronomy 13:4) (Deuter…

And the comeliness and beauty of Gospel worship, consisteth in its relation to God by Jesus Christ, as the merciful high-Priest over his house, with the glorious administration of the spirit therein. The order also of it lies in the due and regular observation of all that Christ…

That journey might have been gone in forty days, but God did lead them in it forty years; to prove and try by this unwonted calamity, whether they would obey him, or not. So likewise God suffered false prophets, and Dreamers of dreams, to come among the people; for this end, To…

Of all which, and the application of them to particular cases, I have given a description in the Exercitations to the first Volume of these Commentaries. And it is said, that he died without mercy, not only because there was no allowance for any such mercy as should save and del…

In the same manner God tempts his own servants, to prove and try them. (Deuteronomy 13:3) You shall not listen to the words of the prophet or dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God [reconstructed: proves] you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart. - 2.…

2. By vulgar prejudice, that the Devil may keep the world asleep, 'tis his usual trick to burden the ways of God with clamor, and vulgar prejudice, a dream or lie dares not combat with truth in open field, and therefore fortifying against it with popular arguments, that the ways…

Again, to judge of any point of doctrine by miracles is deceitful unless three things concur: first, doctrine of faith and piety to be confirmed; second, prayer to God that something may be done for the ratifying of the said doctrine; third, the manifest edification of the Churc…

In the same manner tempts God his own servants to prove and try them. (Deuteronomy 13:3) You shall not hearken to the [illegible] of the Prophet or dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God proves whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart. 2. Secondly, God leads into…

And in the same sense the term means "alien gods," or foreign gods, and similarly at Deuteronomy 32:16, and in many other places. XVII. Taking their designation from their worshippers, they are called "gods of the peoples," Deuteronomy 13:8 — that is, of those who have been reje…

2. A Martyr dying for the truth of Christ may have a natural and conditional desire and inclination to live, though his living be contrary to the Lord's revealed will, commanding him to seal the Gospel with his blood, and to confess Christ before men. 3. If the brother, son, dau…

But the Gospel teaches us a real and personal mortification, and that we are to be holy as he is holy, perfect as he is perfect; that is, a new-covenant command (Genesis 17:1). That we should walk before him and be perfect, that we should walk after the Lord (Deuteronomy 13:4),…

The second, that they which plead a calling extraordinarily, must be tried by the word, both for doctrine and life: for this is an infallible way to discouer false teachers, Math. 7. 22. Deut 13:1. 5. Iohns authoritie is said to be from heauen, because his baptisme, that is, his…

I will give various examples. It is the law of God that he of the Israelites that shall entice them to go and worship other gods, shall be put to death (Deuteronomy 13:6). This law serves to maintain and uphold the first commandment, the end of which is to enjoin us to take the…

Second, every reproof must be grounded upon a certain knowledge of the fault committed. For we may not go upon private surmises and supposes, or flying reports and rumors blazed abroad: no nor upon vehement suspicions, or strong presumptions (Deuteronomy 13:14); for in so doing,…

Nay, which was worse; by their ceremonies they made it manifest as by infallible testimonies, that they had no reverence nor awe of God in them. For the Lord testifies by Moses, that he would prove whether they loved him from the heart; in suffering false prophets to bring in su…

“Par un zele sainct et plaisant a Dieu;” — “by a zeal that is holy and pleasing to God.” if he perceives him to have apostatized from the true worship of God; nay, the Lord enjoins us in such a case (Deuteronomy 13:9) to forget flesh and blood, and to bestow all our care on vind…

This name, ὁ πειράζων, the tempter, is given to Satan by the Spirit for the express purpose, that believers may be more carefully on their guard against him. Hence, too, we conclude, that temptations, which solicit us to what is evil, come from him alone: for, when God is someti…

7. That every one who can testify the Truth in any cause, he is of his own accord to repair to the Judges so to do (Leviticus 5:1). 8. That Witnesses be examined strictly and their testimony duly weighed (Deuteronomy 13:14). 9. That false Witnesses have that done to them, which…

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor, or (it is the same word) against your friend: there it is taken in a large sense, for a neighbor, that is, for any besides yourself, to whom offices of love are due, as Christ expounds it (Luke 10:30). But usually, it is pu…

Cor. 11. 19. Deut. 13. 1, 2. Now in this []ase Ieremias direction must be obserued, Stand in the parting of the wa[]es (saith hee) and inquire for the olde and auncient way [] (that is, the doctrine of the Prophets) what God wills and commands by them and by his Apostles, and th…

I call that a good and holy temptation, when as God tempts a man, and it is an action of God whereby hee proous and tris man, to make manifest unto man himselfe and unto others, what is in his heart, for God knows well enough before hee trie him. Thus he tempted Abraham by the o…

Thess. 2. 9. The comming of Antichrist that []an of sinne is with signes and lying wonders, through Satans working, and of such God forewarnes his people, Deut. 13. that they should not bee d[]a[]ne to Idolatrie for a miracle; for either they be false miracles and lying []onders…

6. Matthew 6:10. Touching angels, which are spirits immaterial and intellectual, the glorious inhabitants of those sacred palaces, where nothing but light and blessed immortality forever dwell — as in number and order they are huge, mighty, and royal armies, so likewise in perfe…

That is, to bring up Christ again from the dead. But the word is now near even in your mouth, and in your heart, that is, the word of faith which we preach (Romans 10:7, 8, 9, 10; Deuteronomy 13:14). The preached Law leading pedagogically to Christ in Moses' time, and the plainl…

I might also instance the same in Saul's subjects and servants, who refused to slay the priests of the Lord at his command (1 Samuel 22:17). Though a husband be not reckoned in particular among those to whom we are forbidden to hearken if they entice us to idolatry, yet by the r…

The Apostle exhorts all Christians to do all their things in love: much more ought husbands: though in place they be above their wives, yet love may not be forgotten (1 Corinthians 16:14). 2. Because of all persons on earth a wife is the most proper object of love: no friend, no…

For in that sense, we are to count it all joy when we fall into temptation, in the other, that we enter not into it. Again actively considered, it either denotes in the tempter, a design for the bringing about of the special end of temptation, namely a leading into evil; so it i…

Well then, this is one way of God's tempting, permitting of Satan to tempt. And as Satan, so his instruments, God tries us by them (Deuteronomy 13:1-3): "If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, you shalt not hearken to him. Why?

That among the number of these, are errors, the depravations of men's understandings, has not yet been proved. The case of the seducer, from Deuteronomy 13, is urged with more show of reason than any of the others, to the business in hand; but yet the extreme discrepancies betwe…

For besides the oath there are also some serious assertions, by which without an oath we affirm or deny something, as if someone should assert something by his life: he neither imprecates upon his life, nor makes himself an idol: but asserts that what he says is as true as it is…

And (Proverbs 29:24): whoever is partner with a thief, hates his own soul; he hears cursing, and reveals it not, which he ought to do. Yet once more (Deuteronomy 13:6-8): if your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your fr…

Would not he be angry with us, till he have consumed us; so that there be none (as hitherto through mercy there has been) remnant, and escaping, but the fire of his wrath may burn to (and we burn in) the lowermost hell! Oh, let us hear and fear, and do no more so wickedly (Deute…

Sometimes God tempts, and sometimes Satan; God tempts for good ends, Satan for evil ends. God tempts to try grace (Deuteronomy 13:3); The Lord your God proves you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart. Thus it is said, God tempted Abraham (Genesis 22:1).

Sometimes it signifies to keep in safe custody; so keep your heart — lock it up safe, that it may be forthcoming when God calls for it. Your heart: the heart is taken diversely in scripture — sometimes for the vital part (Judges 19:5), for the soul (Deuteronomy 13:3), for the mi…

Hence you see therefore, that if a man bee not well rooted, if he be not built upon the Rock, if this persuasion of the remission of his sinnes bee not well bottomed, that causes him not to hold out, but to fall off againe. Whereas it is required of us, that we keepe so close to…

The magistrate's duty qua magistrate in matters of religion proved, and yet with a difference of the Christian and heathen magistrate's power in such matters. p. 42, 43, 44 The commands in the Old Testament for magistrates punishing in matters of the first Table, as Exodus 22:13…

So (2 Chronicles 15:13): they that would not seek the Lord God of Israel, whether small or great, the little ones (who could not be inciters of Idolatry) were to be punished. Deuteronomy 13: when one of the Cities of Israel was withdrawn to serve other gods, then the inhabitants…

He that sacrifices to any God save to the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed. Deuteronomy 13:1, 2, 5, If there arise among you a Prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, saying, let us go after other Gods, which you have not known, and let us serve them: You shall not hearken to t…

Zechariah 13:2, 3 is a prophecy of the times and days of the Gospel, as the context is clear and is confessed by some Patrons of Toleration, though put off and evaded that it is allegorical and figurative, and meant of some one particular time only under the Gospel, with other s…

The complaints, prohibitions, comminations, with the commands, directions, cautions against giving way to, tolerating of and following many wayes in religion, and for contending for the Faith, buying the truth, &c. though delivered, and run in generall, they bind (as other Scrip…

First therefore God permits these wicked arts in the church, to prove whether his children will steadfastly believe in him, and seek to his word, or cleave to the devil, by seeking to his wicked instruments. This Moses plainly forewarned the church of God of, in his time (Deuter…

In the Old Testament we read that sorcerers and false prophets used to foretell strange events by revelations which they had in their dreams. Such diviners were among the Jews, and for that cause the people of God were expressly forbidden to hearken to dreamers of dreams (Deuter…

Again, Peter did not upon the denial betake himself to the Devil, but turned to Christ again, which he testified by his hearty and speedy repentance; but witches deny God, and betake themselves to the Devil, of their own accord, as is manifest even by their own confessions at th…

There are indeed many sharp reproofs in the Old Testament of those who undertook to be God's messengers without his warrant, as Jeremiah 23:21, 22, I have not sent these Prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. But if they had stood in my counsel,…

Innumerable of this sort at the beginning of the Reformation, were discovered among the agents, of that wonder-working man of sin, by the blessing of God upon humane endeavours; now from such discoveries, a good conclusion may be drawn, against the doctrine they desire by such m…

We shall therefore, show the ways and means, whereby, we may quickly be delivered from false pastors, And first of all, we will rehearse and show, the reward, and horrible punishment, that is prepared for them, if perchance, they being afraid, with the consideration of it, will…

One is, a maligning and oppugning, the word, work, and worship of God: and by any extraordinary sign seeking to seduce any from it. See (Deuteronomy 13:1-2; Matthew 24:24; Acts 13:8, 10; 2 Timothy 3:8). Do but mark well the places; and for this very property (of thus opposing an…

Moses likewise took punishment with the sword, upon those, who did worship the golden calf; (Exodus 32:26, 27, 28). We have (2) the examples of Hezekiah (2 Kings 18:4), of Josiah (2 Kings 23), of Asa, who decreed that whoever would not seek the Lord God of Israel (according to t…

(3) See question the eighth and ninth. (4) Exodus 29:42, 43, 45; Deuteronomy 14:23; Psalm 133:3; Matthew 18:20; Revelation 21:3. (5) Exodus 20:5; Deuteronomy 4:23, 24; Joshua 24:19; Ezekiel 16.

Oh it is a sad expression, what Israel! a vessel employed and received to empty out excrements! [1. Israel were a people precious and honorable in the eyes of God (Isaiah 43:4). [2. An holy people to the Lord (Deuteronomy 14:2). [3. They were God's peculiar people above all nati…

2. God does nothing in the election of Peter, more than of Judas; nor can grace and mercy have place in the choosing of the one, rather than the other; but as free will is foreseen to play the game ill, or well, so go the eternal decrees of election and reprobation, and there ca…

And this is that very sincere and spiritual milk, without all deceitfulness. And here again has Saint Peter by milk, comprehended and glanced at other places of Scripture, as his order and custom is often and very plenteously to do: namely that in the 23rd of Exodus, and Deutero…

16. That the tithes be separated for the use of the Levites. 17. That a second tithe be taken by the owners, to spend at the tabernacle, or at Jerusalem (Deuteronomy 14:22). 18. That out of the tenth of the Levites, a tenth be taken for the Priests.

There is an objection that may be made concerning this act of Job, (because afterward it is said, that in all this Job sinned not) whether or not Job might shave his head without sin? For you have an express rule to the contrary, (Leviticus 19:27; Leviticus 21:5): You shall not…

Something like an after-crop must be left; the shorter ears of corn and such as lay bending to the ground were to be reserved for the poor. And God made another law in favor of the poor (Deuteronomy 14:28): At the end of three years you shall bring forth the tithe of your increa…

Not that anything can be accepted that is not of faith; but I speak this to show you how insignificant the profession of Talkative will be at that day. Faithful: This brings to my mind that of Moses, by which he describes the beast that is clean (Leviticus 11; Deuteronomy 14). H…

And the great thing that we find any of the Good Kings of Judah commended for is, that they commanded the worship of God to be observed and performed, according to his own appointment. For this end were they then bound to write out a Copy of the Law with their own hands (Deutero…

And that nothing that was lame, blind, maimed, or had any blemish in it, should be offered to the Lord. Deuteronomy 15:21. Abel here did even that which these laws commanded: and these laws commanded the same that he did.

And Grotius speaks much to the same purpose. But this description of a Mediator is wholly applicable to Moses, and suited to his office in giving of the Law (see Exodus 20:19; Deuteronomy 15:27, 28). What is said by them does indeed immediately belong to the mediatory office of…

He shall not only leave an estate behind, but a blessing behind to his children; and God will see that the Entail shall not be cut off. 5. Blessed in his negotiations, Deuteronomy 15. 10. For this thing the Lord your God shall bless you in all your works, and in all that you put…

It is reported of the young Lord Harrington, that he gave the tenth part of his yearly revenue to charitable uses: as Mary brought her sweet ointments to anoint Christ's dead body; so a gracious soul brings his ointments of charity to anoint the saints which are Christ's living…

And he is all the more to be detested for this, that this trifler set out to defile the sacred oracles of God. Targum Onkelos has the Hebrew word for "Hebrew"; and at Exodus 2:6, it renders the Hebrew word for "Hebrews" as "Jews"; and at Deuteronomy 15:12, the phrase "your broth…

We shall first open the words a little, and then speak to some doctrines from them, reserving the uses to the close of all. 1. Where it is said, He was oppressed, the word signifies to exact; and we find it three ways applied in Scripture: 1. To the exacting of tribute, as (2 Ki…

And this reckoning and resolution must we daily carry about with us. The second point is, why the church of Jerusalem must be relieved by the Gentiles, considering by God's law (Deuteronomy 15:11) every place must relieve its own poor. Answer: we are first of all, debtors to our…

Goodness respects either the body, or the mind. Goodness concerning the body has many actions: as to feed the hungry, to give drink to the thirsty, to harbor the harborless, to clothe the naked, to visit the sick, and them that are in prison (Matthew 25:35-36), to bury the dead…

The word in the Original translated marks, does properly signify prints with a hot iron. But it is here used generally to signify, any blemish, scar, or mark whatever, whether such as was accustomed to be set upon servants bought with money (which among the Jews was a hole in th…

EXPLIC. IX. The having of poor always among us, and of us, according to our Savior's prediction (Matthew 26:11), and the promise of God (Deuteronomy 15:11), serves for the trial of themselves and others, of their own content, with Christ alone, with submission to the all-disposi…

40. That the tenth of every clean beast be separated to the Lord (Leviticus 27:32). 41. That every first-born Male be sanctified and offered to the Lord (Exodus 13:2; Deuteronomy 15:19). 42. That every first-born of man be redeemed with a certain price (Numbers 18:15).

But who can imagine, what should move the LXX to render [in non-Latin alphabet] a word of a known signification and univocal, by [in non-Latin alphabet], when they had translated it an hundred and fifty times, that is constantly elsewhere, by [in non-Latin alphabet] and [in non-…

'Doe good unto all, but specially to the houshold of faith: first, believers must be releeued, and then all others, good or badde. The third Rule is given by Moses, Deut. 15. 10. We must first releeue our ownepoore, that is, such as live among us, and then give unto strangers, i…

If a good servant does by occasion slip, and commit a fault, his master ought in wisdom either to take no notice of it: or with some mild admonition pass it over: and not deal with him as with a lewd, graceless servant. 4. When such servants (their covenanted time being expired)…

Third, mercifulness consists in a liberal contribution. Deuteronomy 15:8: If there is a poor man within your gates, you shall open your hand wide to him. The word 'to disperse' (Psalm 112:9) signifies a largeness of bounty; it must be like water that overflows the banks.

Rewarded with plenty: your soul shall be as a watered garden (Isaiah 58:11). For this thing, the Lord your God shall bless you in all your works (Deuteronomy 15:10). Rewarded with honor: he has dispersed and given to the poor, his horn shall be exalted with honor (Psalm 112:9).

For in that a man binds himself to be ruled (in all things belonging to God's worship) according to the will and pleasure of his superior, yes to eat, drink, sleep; to be clothed, etc. according to a certain rule given and prescribed by him; whereas in regard of conscience we ar…

As for the other sort, that are unable to work, they are not allowed by the word of God, to gather their alms themselves by begging from door to door, but to be relieved at home in their houses. Deuteronomy 15:4: There shall not be a beggar in you. v. 11: there shall be ever som…

Next, the vow of professed poverty is unlawful. (1) Because the Lord did not allow beggars to be among his people of old (Deuteronomy 15:7). (2) Because Agur wished that the Lord might not give him poverty, lest he should steal and take the name of God in vain (Proverbs 30:8-9).

You love to see your servants go cheerfully about your work. Under the law God would have a free-will offering (Deuteronomy 16:10). Hypocrites obey God grudgingly and against their will; they do facere bonum, but not velle.

You shall make no graven image, neither shall you set up any image of stone to bow down to it. (Deuteronomy 16:22) Neither shall you set up any image which the Lord your God hates. (Psalm 97:7) Confounded be all who serve graven images.

3. Our keeping God's Commandments must be willing (Isaiah 1:19): If you be willing and obedient. God was for a free will-offering (Deuteronomy 16:10). David will run the way of God's Commandments (Psalm 119:32), that is, freely and cheerfully.

1. They who go contrary to God's express will, hate him. God says, you shall not set up any statue, image, picture, to represent me: these things I hate (Deuteronomy 16:22). Neither shall you set up any image which the Lord your God hates.

After some eminent deliverance, which calls for rejoicing, now to have the spirits dyed of a sad color, and to sit weeping, is not seasonable. There was a special time at the Feast of Tabernacles, when God called his people to cheerfulness (Deuteronomy 16:15): "Seven days you sh…

"Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God" (Exodus 23:17). "Three times in a year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God in the place which he shall choose" (Deuteronomy 16:16). Neither would God allow any stranger, any one not o…

2. The Apostle observes that one end of the sacrifice at the dedication of the first Covenant was purging and making atonement, ver. 22, 23. For in all solemn sacrifices blood was sprinkled on the holy things, to purify them, and make atonement for them (Deuteronomy 16:14, 19, 2…

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II. The Greeks call sacred columns stelai. The LXX (Septuagint) thus renders the Hebrew word matzevah; these are prohibited in (Leviticus 26:1, Deuteronomy 16:22). "Matzevah," says Kimchi, "is a stone erected for the purpose of worship."

XXIII. Finally, by way of supreme contempt they are called by the Hebrew term signifying "filth, dung, wallowing-places:": Ezekiel 23:3, "He committed fornication with them to defile himself," with dunghill-gods. Leviticus 26:30; Deuteronomy 16; the term signifies "dung;": Job 2…

Thus the Queene of Saba, went vp to Jerusalem, to heare the wisdome of Salomon. The lawe of God, was, that all the males in Israel, should thrise in the yeare, goe vp to the place which god had appointed, Deut. 16. This law was practised by Elkana & Anna, 1.

By this we are advertised, what a virtue it is in a Magistrate to know how to despise gifts: for if he cannot curb his desires, his hands and eyes, he will never judge justly. It is therefore but a tale when some say, they can keep a good conscience, though they receive rewards,…

Answer. This is very true, but the Prophet aimed at that which falls out for the most part, and yet notwithstanding meant not to spare the vices which he expressed not. By whose example good teachers ought to be wise and well advised in considering and correcting those vices whi…

The first appointment of this court, the original of this Consessus Judicum is recorded, § 13 Numbers 11:16, where by God's order, LXX Elders are called and designed to join with Moses in the rule of the people, and are instructed with gifts to fit them for that purpose. The con…

And this night fell in directly upon the expiration of the 430 years before limited, verse 40, 41. For the time of the year, it was in the month [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] Abib, as the Hebrews call the month of the spring, which in those Eastern parts gave blades to the corn, a…

14. That three times in the year an holy Feast be kept to the Lord (Exodus 23:14). 15. That on these Feasts, all the Males appear before the Lord (Deuteronomy 16:16). 16. That they should rejoyce in all their Feasts (Deuteronomy 16:14).

Besides these, there were officers who attended the service of the whole people, as to the execution of justice and order, called [in non-Latin alphabet], Shoterim, which we have rendered by the general name of officers (Exodus 5:14). And they are afterwards distinguished from t…

The Hebrew writers record that every third year, besides the first tithe given to Levi — called the perpetual tithe (Numbers 18:21) — the Jews set apart another tithe of their increase for the use of widows and orphans, called the tithe of the poor. Besides, at the Jews' solemn…

What is this kindly and proper fruit? When we are good in our callings and relations. In a magistrate, justice is kindly fruit (Deuteronomy 16:19); in a minister, zeal (Acts 17:16); in a parent, instruction (Deuteronomy 4:10); in a child, reverence (Ephesians 6:1); in a master,…

1. He is godly who is good as a Magistrate: The Magistrate is God's Representative; a godly Magistrate holds the balance of Justice, and gives to every one his right, Deuteronomy 16. 19. You shall not respect persons, neither take a gift, for a gift does blind the eyes. A Magist…

Even this, their own affection to gain, and glory, and those other alluring gifts, which that strumpet has in her hand, which they cannot receive, unless they first take her poisoned cup, and drink thereof. Reward blinds the eyes of the wise; that is our corrupt affection toward…

That he has none of this complacency and delight, appears thus, because he serves God grudgingly; he brings his sacrifice with a wicked mind, Proverbs 21:27. Such an one was Cain: It was long before he brought his offering, it was not the first fruits, and when he did bring it,…

God alone by virtue of his sovereignty, could dispense with the execution of this sentence of the Law, as he did in the case of David (2 Samuel 12:13), but as to the people, they were prohibited on any account to dispense with it, or forbear the execution of it (Numbers 35:31).…

They suppose the Apostle useth this expression, [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩], to denote some especial chapter or place in the Law. This they conjecture to be that of Deuteronomy 17:18–19. And it shall be, that when He (the King to be chosen) shall sit on the Throne of his Kingdom,…

Come we next to the supreme court. That there was a high ecclesiastical Sanedrim, distinct from the civil Sanedrim, is observed by Pelargus on Deuteronomy 17, and S[p]ingius ad bonam fidem Sibrandi, pag. 261 & seq., beside many others cited before, part. 1, chap. 11. And that it…

And his mistake is grossest of all, in imagining, that they had no other copies of the Law or Scripture, but what was so laid up in the side of the Ark. The whole people being commanded to study in it continually, and the King in special, to write out a Copy of it with his own h…

Secondly, in this commandment other sorts of particulars are forbidden, as all means, occasions, or appurtenances of idolatry, whereby some show, or remembrance or reverence is kept (Psalm 16:4). As all marriages, conjunctions or near familiarity with idolaters (2 Corinthians 6:…

And you shall find a mighty power in it to bear fruit, as if you were planted by the rivers of waters, for the Spirit of God breathing in the word, and your hearts sucking it up, and by meditating upon it, you grow in more knowledge in the object of your faith, in the rootedness…

1. Why three? So great an action as this was needed valuable testimony, for the law says in the mouth of two or three witnesses, every thing shall be established (Deuteronomy 17:6). Now Christ would go to the utmost of the law, and would have not two only but three witnesses, as…

Therefore we may not swell in pride for outward things. The king must not lift up his heart against his brethren (Deuteronomy 17:20). Rich men (says Paul) must not be high-minded (1 Timothy 6:17).

The second answer is, that God did not approve the polygamy of the fathers, or commend it, but did only tolerate it, as a lesser evil, for the preventing of a greater. This toleration appears, in that God commanded that the king must not multiply his wives (Deuteronomy 17:17), a…

Here is our limit; we may not desire to be rich (verse 9). The king himself must not multiply his gold, and silver (Deuteronomy 17:17), and yet has he more need of gold and silver, than any private man. 4. There must be a moderation in the spending of our goods: contrary to the…

3. for men of the same country. Thus all the Jews are called brethren one to another (Deuteronomy 17:15), From among your brethren shall you make a king over you, and (Deuteronomy 23:19), You shall not give to usury to your brother, and (Romans 9:1), Paul says, he could wish him…

For they had turned them from the confidence which they ought to have had in God: it being the custom of Princes to solicit their neighbors, and offering them help, to the end they may use them afterward in the like case. But God had forbidden the Jews to go down into Egypt for…

In which respect it is no marvel that our Prophet is so earnest in rebuking of them for so monstrous an outrage. Their very going down into Egypt simply considered in itself deserved a sharp reprehension, because God had forbidden them so to do (Deuteronomy 17:16, 28), but the o…

Our Lord reckoned it enough to select three witnesses, because that is the number which the Law has laid down for proving anything; at the mouth of two witnesses or three witnesses, (Deuteronomy 17:6.) The difference as to time ought not to give us uneasiness.

18. That every one write him a Copy of the Law (Deuteronomy 31:19). 19. That the King moreover write out another for himself as King (Deuteronomy 17:28). 20. That at our eating of meat we give thanks, or bless God (Deuteronomy 8:10).

1. In things concerning the house and worship of God (Zechariah 3:7). 2. In hard and difficult cases, he joined with the judge or ruler, in judging between men according to the law (Deuteronomy 17:12). 3. He was always a member of the Sanhedrim.

Therefore, as before Job joined counselors with kings, so here he joins gold with princes; the next expedient for princes to counsel and wisdom, are gold and treasures. We find indeed, that God gives it in charge to the kings of Israel, concerning their gathering of treasures, t…

Ways of peaceable conclusion there are but these two certain: the one, a sentence of judicial division, given by authority appointed within ourselves; the other, the like kind of sentence given by a more universal authority. The former of which two ways God himself in the law pr…

Mercy] The former word teaches us how great the change is that is wrought by the calling of God, this teaches us how free it is; the people of God, that is the good attained in the change, obtained mercy, that is the spring from where it flows; it is implied indeed in the words…

If you would know whether or not you are the children of God, see that of the Apostle (Romans 8:16): The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God. As under the Law, in the mouth of two witnesses every doubtful thing was to be established (Deut…

Therefore if one have lost his first love, his first beauty and color, let him go to the word and it will bring it again, because it takes away the sickness that takes away the color, only some cautions must be observed. First, It must be constantly read, it is not enough when w…

But indeed, a not insignificant question arises here: how are those said to have sinned who appear to have asked for a king according to God's plan? For God had once spoken through Moses in Deuteronomy 17: 'Only set over yourself a king whom the Lord your God shall choose,' etc.…

For those who sit at the helm receive from prescribed laws what their duty is, with God himself as teacher and master. For in Deuteronomy 17 God prescribes what the future right of the king shall be, as we shall see below. But there is another kind of right, namely with respect…

In favor of this sense it may be alleged, 1. That certainly the king was bound to study the law of God, as you shall see (Deuteronomy 17:18-19). When he sits upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the pri…

By judgments is meant the precepts and directions of the word, as invested with threatenings and promises; for so the word contains every man's doom: not only the execution of God's providence, but the word shows what will become of a man. Now these I have laid before me; that i…

1. Doctrine: That nothing is so necessary for the potentates of the world to know, as God's testimonies. The King of Israel was to write a copy of the law of God in a book, and to have it ever before him, that he might read therein, and learn to fear the Lord his God (Deuteronom…

The word signifies either to turn aside, or to turn back. Sometimes it is put for turning aside to the right hand or to the left: as (Deuteronomy 17:11): You shall not decline from the way which they shall show to you, to the right hand or to the left. Sometimes for turning back…

[illegible], as Hierocles, to be banished from God, and the divine life, is the worst of deaths. 2 'Tis a curse, an accursed state, to be under the curse of God; as (Matthew 25:41) not only depart from me, but depart you cursed: There's not the least dram of blessing or blessedn…

Therefore the Lord in his infinite wisdom, does so temper the sweetness of his mercy, and the severity of his wrath, in the recovery of a lost and forlorn wretch; riches of mercy to the soul to save that, rigor of severity against the loathsomeness of sin to destroy that; so tha…

The magistrate's duty qua magistrate in matters of religion proved, and yet with a difference of the Christian and heathen magistrate's power in such matters. p. 42, 43, 44 The commands in the Old Testament for magistrates punishing in matters of the first Table, as Exodus 22:13…

Besides the full concurrent testimony and judgement of the most learned Protestant Divines, Calvin, Philip Melancton, Beza, Peter Martyr, Zanchius, Bullinger, Musculus, Chemnitius, Gerardus, Bucanus, Bilson, Cartwright, Professores Leydenses, Voetius, Triglandus, that the care o…

And that Prophet, or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken to turn you away from the Lord your God, which brought you out of the Land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust you out of the way which the Lord your God comman…

That in Deuteronomy 13 is to be compared with this Zechariah 13:3, where we find the same things, almost the same words used in a prophecy of the times of the Gospel, the meaning of which is not that his Father or Mother should presently run a Knife into him, but that though the…

The complaints, prohibitions, comminations, with the commands, directions, cautions against giving way to, tolerating of and following many wayes in religion, and for contending for the Faith, buying the truth, &c. though delivered, and run in generall, they bind (as other Scrip…

For she renounces God himself, the King of kings, she leaves the society of his church and people, she binds herself in league with the Devil — and therefore if any offender among men ought to suffer death for his deed, much more ought she, and that of due desert. The second rea…

Love will be apt to grow wanton, if it be not poised with holy fear. No better Curb or Antidote against sin, than fear, Deuteronomy 17:13. They shall fear, and do no more presumptuously.

Riches are not absolutely and per se good, and therefore not simply to be desired. We may not seek great things for ourselves; they who have most need of them may not greatly multiply them to themselves (Deuteronomy 17:17). Cyrus esteemed himself more rich in the hearts and love…

For every child of God is a child of promise: you say, you are weary of sin, and have come to Christ, and blessed are they that seek God, their hearts shall live for ever, etc. It is well; these promises will bear you out, for there is no day you read the Scripture, as daily you…

The reasons of this answer are these. First (Deuteronomy 17:16-17), the commandment is given to the King, that has most need of abundance, that he should not multiply his horses or his silver or his gold. That which the King may not do, the subjects ought much less to do; and th…

And the honor due to them is, without all contempt, in meekness of spirit, to respect them as brethren. This duty the Lord commands expressly to the King; That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren (Deuteronomy 17:20). The same was the practice of Job, who says of himsel…

God's bestowing special spiritual mercies on a person at such a time, is no sign that he approves of every thing that he sees in him at that time. David had very much of the presence of God while he lived in polygamy: and Solomon had some very high favors, and peculiar smiles of…

(8.) Because, the Scriptures teach the way of life (Proverbs 2:9; Luke 16:29; Acts 24:14). (9.) Because, the Scriptures set forth the duties of every man in his place, and circumstances of his life (Deuteronomy 17:18-20; Joshua 1:8; Psalm 119:24; 2 Chronicles 23:11). (10.) Becau…

(5) Because, it is expressly commanded in Scripture, that punishment be inflicted upon idolaters, even by the nearest relations. If then, the father may kill the son, may kill the daughter, the husband the wife of his bosom: and if one brother may stone another brother with ston…

By what reasons are they confuted? (1) Because God has expressly commanded that transgressing idolaters be put to death. (Deuteronomy 17:7; Deuteronomy 19:21.) (2) Because it belongs to the office and duty of the Magistrate to punish the guilty with death. (Romans 13:4; 1 Peter…

(4) Because, there is a particular example of a Synod, which had the power of Jurisdiction, and which consisted, and was made up of members, out of diverse Classical Conventions: For when the question about circumcision, and the keeping of Moses' Law, which troubled the churches…

Leviticus [illegible]:16: And he that blasphemes the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death. Deuteronomy 17:2, 3, 4, 5: If there be found among you within any of your gates, which the Lord your God gives you, man or woman, that has wrought wickedness in the sight of t…

If the Lord Jehovah be the [reconstructed: only] true God, then it reproves those who renounce the true God; I mean such as seek to familiar spirits: this is too much practiced among them that call themselves Christians. It is a sin condemned by the law of God (Deuteronomy 18:11…

Deuteronomy 18:15 The Lord your God will raise up to you a Prophet, etc. Having spoken of the person of Christ, we are next to speak of the offices of Christ, Prophetical, Priestly, Regal.

2. Such as seek to familiar spirits. This is a sin condemned by the law of God (Deuteronomy 18:11): There shall not be found among you, any that consult with familiar spirits. It is ordinary if people have lost any of their goods, they send to wizards and soothsayers, to know ho…

So many kill the children they go with, by taking such medicines or strong purges as prove the death of the child. (7.) By witchcraft and sorcery, a thing forbidden under the Law (Deuteronomy 18:10): There shall not be found among you an enchanter or a witch, or a consulter with…

This lyes plain in the command (Matthew 28:20): Teaching them to observe all things whatever I have commanded you. And we are directed to it in the injunction given us from Heaven, to hear, that is obey him in all things (Matthew 17:5), he being the Prophet to whose teachings an…

Q. What is the work of Christ as a Prophet? A. To reveal and make known to his people the counsel and will of God (Deuteronomy 18:18; John 1:18; John 4:25; John 15:15; Matthew 11:27). Q. How does he this?

The stories of the Old Testament answer, nothing but sin. In Deuteronomy, Moses chargeth the Israelites, that they do not after the abominations of the heathen Canaanites: for, saith he, because of their abominable sins God did cast them out before you, Deuteronomy 18:9-12. And…

But this ministry, the dispensation of light and knowledge thereby, could not render it complete; yes, it was an argument of the darkness and bondage under which it was. For there was yet one greater than they all, and above them all, one more intimately acquainted with God and…

Until I Deborah arose, I arose a mother in Israel; that is, by an extraordinary call from God to be a prophetess and a deliverer. Deuteronomy 18:18: A prophet will I raise up to you; which was Christ himself. So God raised up a horn of salvation in the house of his servant David…

We have shown that Christ himself is closed with by a true faith; now I add more particularly; in all his offices he is closed with, or accepted of, otherwise we fall short of him at last. As a Prophet: Jesus Christ is a Prophet; and it is a precious consideration: it was foreto…

ers, would last only until an appointed time, and had a certain prescribed period beyond which it was lawful for no one to adhere to them. For that One would at length come, in whom all things were laid up, furnished with the authority of a lawgiver, who would most perfectly dec…

Two things are chiefly celebrated concerning it: the worship, and the place appointed for it. The worship was "the passing of offspring through fire" (Leviticus 18:21; Deuteronomy 18:10; 2 Kings 16:3, 21:10). There were two kinds of it — burning alive, and purifications by fire.

Here is forbidden the least remission or weakness (Revelation 2:4). Uprightness is, when the affection loves, desires, etc. in a single heart, only because God commands, and for that end; this is called simplicity, truth, a single heart (Deuteronomy 18:13; John 1:17; Ephesians 6…

In the order of the Church, as the means are more glorious and excellent, so we must prepare ourselves more earnestly on every side (Ecclesiastes 5:1). To the Lord, in the person of the Minister, whom we must receive as the Lord (Romans 10:15; 2 Corinthians 5:19-20), speaking hi…

4. But as every fullness is not all fullness, so every fullness is not the fullness of the Godhead; therefore, to me it's as much as the elect are drawn to Christ as the choicest, the rarest among all. 2. So among all choice things and all relations, he is the first and most emi…

Uses. For confutation of the Jews, and to show their obstinacy in not receiving Christ as the Messiah, God had told Moses (Deuteronomy 18:18), 'I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren like to you, and will put my words into his mouth, and he shall speak to them…

1. That Christ is the great prophet and teacher of the Church appears. 1. By the titles given to him, he is compared with Moses, the great law-giver among the Jews: "The Lord your God will raise up to you a prophet from the midst of you like to me, to him shall you hearken" (Deu…

But waving these, let it satisfy the religious enquirer, that the astral influences, in that sense which I have explained them, are disallowed by the infallible test of all verity, the Holy Scriptures. When the divine law says, There shall not be found among you any one that use…

There are three kinds of witchcraft. The first is superstitious divination, which serves to tell men their fortunes, or to reveal secrets by the flying of fowls, by the entrails of beasts, by the observation of stars, by consulting with familiar spirits, and such like (Deuterono…

And it was one of the ends which God had in giving his law in so great majesty, to teach us, that it is for our good, that he does not instruct us with his own lively voice from heaven, and speak to us in his own person: and that therefore we should be content, nay desirous rath…

For the Lord comes not down from heaven to teach us, but uses the ministry of his servants, and shows that he speaks by their mouth; which is so admirable a benefit, as should cause us to embrace it with both our hands. He promised under the law (as I was saying) that he would r…

I answer, he here only condemns the signs whereby the Chaldeans conjectured, as if they could judge of things to come: for the Lord pronounces that all such things are merely vain. It is not without cause then that he forbids his people to ask counsel of Astrologers, Soothsayers…

And in supposing to fetch answers from the dead, they delighted to be deceived by the illusions of wicked spirits. Now by Deuteronomy 18:11, and other places, it appears, how expressly the Lord had forbidden this. And we have touched it somewhat before, in Chapter 8.

And if others doubt and stand wavering whether they should ask counsel at dead idols, or at Saints departed; yet let us always have this answer ready at hand; That we ought to ask counsel of God only. Now the Prophet alludes to the place in Deuteronomy; where the Lord forbids th…

So thoroughly infected is the mind of man with a depraved curiosity, that the greater part of men are always gaping after new revelations. Now as nothing is more displeasing to God than when men are so eager to go beyond due bounds, he forbids them to inquire of magicians and so…

And no otherwise has it fallen out with some in our Days, whom we have seen visibly acted by an extraordinary Power; unduely pretending to Supernatural Agitations from God, they were really acted by the Devil, a thing they neither desired nor looked after; but being surprized by…

Which he was to do according to the great Promise. Deut. 18. 18, 19. And on the Acceptance or Refusal of him herein, depended the Life and Death of the Church of Israel, v. 19.

What he had revealed was to be observed (Deuteronomy 27:29), and when he had revealed it: but until he declare that he will add no more, it is folly to account what is already done, absolutely complete and immutable. Therefore Moses when he had finished all his work in the Lord'…

And they principally respected these three heads. First, That they should possess the Land of Canaan, and there enjoy that worship which he had prescribed to them (see Exodus 6:4; chapter 34:10, 11; Leviticus 26:8, 9; Deuteronomy 18:18; chapter 29:13; Psalm 105:10, 11). Secondly…

Other Characters of the Messiah. He was to be a Prophet, Deut. 18:19. A Prophet like to Moses.

16. That the Annointing Oyl be made to annoint King and Priest (Exodus 30:25, 26, 27). 17. That the Families of the Priests minister in the Sanctuary by turns, but that all be present at the great Anniversary Feasts (Deuteronomy 18:6). 18. That the Priests mourn and be defiled f…

Thirdly, in judgments to be brought providentially upon the whole nation by pestilence, famine, sword and captivity, which are at large declared, Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28. Fourthly, total rejection of the whole body of the people, in case of unbelief and disobedience, upo…

Chap. 24.7, 17, 20, 24. Consent of Targums; Talmudists, Cabalists, Deuteronomy 18:15, 16, 17, 18, 19. The Prophet promised who.

Or as they who have familiar spirits, or wizards, are said to peep and to mutter (Isaiah 8:19). A witch or wizard, is called there and in other places of Scripture (Leviticus 20:27; Deuteronomy 18:11) Ob, which signifies a bottle or bladder, because such being possessed or acted…

Master, you are true, and teachest the way of God truly. And this was long before confirmed by Moses, who deliuered the promise of Christ unto the people, into whose mouth God would put his word, Deut. 18. 18. and Ioh. 7. 16. Christ confesses, that his doctrine was not his own,…

This is a plainer prophecy of Christ, especially with regard to his kingly office, than any that had been before. But we have another, that God gave by Moses, that is plainer still, especially with regard to his prophetical office, in Deuteronomy 18:18 etc. "I will raise up a pr…

This union is more fully expressed afterwards, verse 30. The dignity of Christ is here principally intended: so as Christ is the highest in authority over the Church: the titles Lord, Father, Master, Doctor, Prophet, First-born, with the like, being by a kind of excellency and p…

Without a right knowledge of God and his mind, there can be no true fear of him. That command also, for the Jewish Magistrate, to study it day and night, and to have the Book of the Law continually before him, because it was the rule of that civil polity, whereof he was under Go…

Further, in that mention is made of the Pythoness woman, this came from the heathen, among whom there was a kind of divination by which impure spirits, insinuating themselves into human bodies, gave forth oracles, and these prophets were called Pythons. This kind of divinations…

Idolatry and idolaters not the adequate object of the magistrate's coercive power under the old Testament, but the whole worship and truth of God. from p. 27, to 34 The 17. of Deuteronomy 18:19. opened and proved to give magistrates the care of religion. p. 34, 35, 36, 37 Under…

You shall keep the Sabbath therefore, for it is holy to you: every one that defiles it, shall surely be put to death: for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. Deuteronomy 18:20, 22. But the Prophet which shall presume to speak a word i…

Secondly, the main foundation of the charm; societies or confederacies cunningly made, not between man and man, but (as the words import) between the enchanter and the devil. The like we read (Deuteronomy 18:11), where the Lord charges his people when they come into the land of…

And both these ways, sometimes by the noise, and sometimes by the flight, they divined of things to come, both public and private, of good and bad success in men's affairs; of the state of kingdoms, towns, families and particular persons. Now this kind of divination is condemned…

Enchantment is the working of wonders by a charm. This the Lord expressly forbids (Deuteronomy 18:11): Let none be found among you, that is a charmer. In this description, two points are to be considered: first, what things may be done by enchantment, namely wonders, for I say i…

In the times of ignorance the devil triumphs freely without control, but the mist and darkness of his delusions cannot possibly abide the bright beams of God's glorious will revealed by preaching. The Lord of ancient times commanded his people not to do according to those nation…

2nd Commandment: You shall make to yourself no graven image, etc. He breaks this commandment: who represents God in an image (Exodus 32:6-8); who worships God in or at images, as crucifixes and such like (2 Kings 18:4); who kneels down before an image; who is bodily present at M…

O it is a most humbling thing to think that ever there should be such an abomination among us, as for a crew of Human Race to renounce their Maker, and to unite with the Devil for the Troubling of Mankind, and for people to be (as is by some confessed) baptized by a Fiend using…

Q. 1. How many are the Offices of Jesus Christ? A. Three; first, of a (a) King; secondly, (b) a Priest; thirdly, a (c) Prophet (a) (Psalm 2:6; (b) Psalm 110:4; (c) Deuteronomy 18:15). Q. Has he these Offices peculiarly by nature?

Q, 1. How many are the Offices of Jesus Christ? A. Three; first, of a (a) King; secondly, (b) a Priest; thirdly, a (c) Prophet. (a) Psalm 2:6. (b) Psalm 110:4. (c) Deuteronomy 18:15. Q. 2. Has he these Offices peculiar by Nature?

The like course did his successors proceed in. For neither had God in the first provision he made for a King among his people (Deuteronomy 18), nor in that prescription of the manner of the Kingdom which he gave them by Samuel, once intimated an exemption of any persons, Priests…

A false witness shall not be unpunished (Proverbs 19:5). If the witness be a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother, then you shall do to him as he had thought to have done to his brother: that is, if he had thought to have taken away his life, his own life…

1 Kings 8:39. and to give to every man according to his ways, that is, 2 Chronicles 6:30. and render to every man according to all his ways. Deuteronomy 19:15. At the mouth of two or three witnesses shall the matter be established, that is, 2 Corinthians 13:1. shall every word b…

This is evident from the express antithesis in the words, You have heard what has been said of old time, but I say to you: Now these were two, (1) That there was no evil in an oath at any time, but only in swearing falsely. This they gathered, (as they fathered their most absurd…

Of all which, and the application of them to particular cases, I have given a description in the Exercitations to the first Volume of these Commentaries. And it is said, that he died without mercy, not only because there was no allowance for any such mercy as should save and del…

If he did it ignorantly, unawares, and no way sought the harm of the slain man, he is not to be punished as a murderer: this we see in the context (ver. 15, 23, 24, 25). The City of Refuge was for such an one (Deuteronomy 19:4, 5). And this is the case of the slayer, which shall…

The trial of secret murder was committed to the Elders of every city (Deuteronomy 21:3, 4). They delivered the willful murderer to the Avenger of blood, to be put to death (Deuteronomy 19:12). They condemned a stubborn son to death (Deuteronomy 21:19).

I shall next put him in mind that the Septuagint sometime turn Kahal by [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩], as (Proverbs 26:26), His wickedness shall be shewed before the whole Congregation, [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩]. And it is plain that the name of the Congregation, or Church, is given…

Heaven is the workhouse of all that befalls you; every evil is the birth that lay in the womb of an infinitely wise decree; so God is said to frame evil, as a potter does an earthen vessel (so [illegible] jatsar signifies) (Jeremiah 18:11); to frame a vessel of clay is a work of…

But since they chased them away, it was requisite that themselves should be chased and deprived of all help and succor. For just and equal is that sentence of the Lord, who commands that every one receive that measure which himself has measured (Deuteronomy 19:19-21, Matthew 7:2…

two or three witnesses. At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established, (Deuteronomy 19:15). Alluding to that law, Christ says that, when two or three witnesses shall rise up to condemn the obstinacy of the man, the case will b…

8. That Witnesses be examined strictly and their testimony duly weighed (Deuteronomy 13:14). 9. That false Witnesses have that done to them, which they would have done to others, or brought upon them (Deuteronomy 19:19). 10. That a Calf be slain where a dead Body is found, the M…

An eie for an eie, and atooth for a tooth: wherein the Lord requirs, requitall of like for like, not by every priuate man, but by the publike Magistrate. As if a man did put out his neighbours eie, then the Magistrate should put out his []ie; and strike out his tes, that strikes…

And if this rigor and wholesome severity were but once used, we should not have so many oaths set out to hire, nor would any make it a trade to be a witness; but innocency would be secured under the protection of the laws, and the laws themselves be innocent of the ruin of many…

It is an ancient law upon record (Genesis 9:6): Whoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed — as if there were no other way for expiation, no other method to wash away the stain and guilt of blood, but only by his who unjustly spilt it. And again (Deuteronomy 19:21…

3. The various words used by the Scripture, as 1. Bewitching of the hearts, and charming the Galatians from the sound doctrine of justification through faith only (Gal. 3:1) to justification by works, prove that influences that take yesterday will not take today, for they were h…

For to demand one's right, is not contrary to love; nor to seek to amend and humble the party nocent by the magistrate's authority, who is the minister of God for good (Romans 13:4). And that others may hear and fear (Deuteronomy 19:20). And the party damaged may for the future…

7. He who Fears God is not only afraid of evil actions, but to offend God in his Thoughts. Deuteronomy 19:6. Beware that there be not a thought in your wicked heart, etc. To think of sin with delight is to act it over in the fancy, this is Culpable.

It is but reason we should allow God that value and esteem that we give to the testimony of men, who are fallible and deceitful. Among men, in the mouth of two or three witnesses every thing is established (Deuteronomy 19:15). Now there are three that bear witness in heaven, and…

Judas was a saint without, but a sinner within, openly a disciple, but secretly a devil (John 6:70). Some pretend to inward sanctity without outward; this is the pretense of the open sinner, though I sometimes drop an idle foolish word, says he, or though I sometimes swear an oa…

And among all the places in Moses' Books, Prophets, the Books of Kings, Chronicles, where it is spoken of, we shall never find this condemned as murder, but still spoken against as Idolatry, a corruption of God's worship, and so recorded among such transgressions. Besides, accor…

Some proceeded to banishment, some to whipping, some at last to the punishment of death. False witness was among the Jews punished with recompense of equal pain (Deuteronomy 19:18), in some places only with great shame, in some places with hanging, in other some with the Cross.…

He that formed the eye shall he not see (Psalm 94:9). When a man goes into the wood with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the helve, and lights upon his neighbor that he die (Deuteronomy 19:5), God…

By what reasons are they confuted? (1) Because God has expressly commanded that transgressing idolaters be put to death. (Deuteronomy 17:7; Deuteronomy 19:21.) (2) Because it belongs to the office and duty of the Magistrate to punish the guilty with death. (Romans 13:4; 1 Peter…

He who will hold that the Christian magistrate is not bound to inflict such punishments for such sins, is bound to prove that those former laws of God are abolished, and to show some scripture for it. 2. That judicial law for having two or three witnesses in judgement (Deuterono…

For, it was God's ordinance, that the Canaanites should be rooted out, and that the Israelites should show no compassion on them, Deuteronomy 7.3. Besides, even in reason the Israelites had some cause to deal thus: for, God gave this charge to the Israelites, that when they came…

The duties of instruction are, that by a familiar and most plain manner of teaching, they may grow in the knowledge of that truth which is according to godliness. [Genesis 18:19. When as I have known him, should I not reveal it for this cause, that he may command his children an…

2. That the City and Citizens which fall to Idolatry, be utterly destroyed (Deuteronomy 13:16). 3. That the seven Nations of Canaan be blotted out (Deuteronomy 20:16). 4. That the Israelites remember what Amalek did to them (Deuteronomy 25:15, 16).

And this the Jews say, was inflicted by pouring molten Lead into their mouths; and the crimes that this punishment were allotted to, were 1. The Adultery of the Priest's Daughter. 2. Incest; 1. With a Daughter. 2. With a Son's Daughter. 3. A Wife's Daughter. 4. A Wife's Daughter…

It is true, that the name is sometimes applied to profane and wicked men with respect to the office or work whereunto they were of God designed; as to Saul (1 Samuel 24:7), and to Cyrus (Isaiah 45:1). And the Jews call the Priest who was to sound the Trumpet when the people went…

Numb. 24:20 His latter end shall be, that he perish for ever: and Deut. 25:19 Moses gives a charge, that after Israel was possessed of his inheritance, that he must blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under Heaven, You shall not forget it. And further, although at the first,…

When it is applied to men, it intends the catechising or instructing them in that which they should follow; so it is used (Proverbs 22:6), Train, &c. When used for other things, it intends the appointing them to their first use, and the service we designed them for; and it seems…

2. There is a cowardly fear; when a man fears danger more than sin; when he is afraid to be good, this fear is an enemy to suffering. God proclaimed that those who were fearful should not go to the wars (Deuteronomy 20:8). The fearful are unfit to fight in Christ's wars; a man p…

If any shall think the consecration of houses and places in this sort, to be a mere device of man's brain, let them remember, that in the Old Testament, besides the dedication of the Temple, allowed by all, there was a law prescribed to the Jews, for the special dedication of ev…

Sin is called [illegible], an abomination,(Deuteronomy 7:25). Nay, in the plural, abominations, (Deuteronomy 20:18). This filthiness in sin is inward: a spot in the face may easily be wiped off; but to have the liver and lungs tainted, is far worse: Such a pollution is sin, it h…

Of encouragement to go on still to bring forth more fruit to God: for if you do, God will not cut you off, he will spare you as a man spares his son that serves him; he will not take advantage at every fault to cast one off. It was his own law (Deuteronomy 20:19) that such trees…

And further, Baptism is the seal of the covenant, we are baptized into the name of the Trinity, into the house of God; now if the name of the Trinity be put upon us, then we must do service to the Trinity, and the Trinity yields us, protection, and provision; a man then discoven…

For it is said, the Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon, when he was to fight the battles of the Lord, against the Midianites, and Amalekites (Judges 6:34). Indeed, the Lord himself prescribes the manner, and way of making of war (Numbers 10:9; Numbers 31:27; Deuteronomy 20:2).…

Eli's two disobedient sons were slain (1 Samuel 4:11). God made a law that the rebellious son should be stoned; the same death the blasphemer had (Leviticus 24:14; Deuteronomy 21:18). If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father or the…

As the Israelites might marry the Midianite women, whom they had taken in war, but not till they had purified them, Numbers 31:18-19. And more plainly and particularly, Deuteronomy 21:11-13. Moses explains what that purifying is: And thou shalt bring her home into thine house, a…

And in that sense it is derived from Cipper in Pihel which signifies to remove or take away, and consequently to be propitious and merciful in taking away of sin, as also to appease, atone, reconcile, and purge, whereby sin is taken away. See Genesis 32:20, to appease; Proverbs…

Besides these, several others have been under vehement suspicion, and tried for their lives, on the account of this sin. We have all cause to pray for New-England, as the Lord's people of old were directed for to do, in case of an uncertain Murder (Deuteronomy 21:7, 8): They sha…

He says, there was no Senate nor Seniors among the Jews, but such as had power of life and death, of imprisonment, confiscation, banishment, &c., which he makes to appear thus: in the days of Ezra the punishment of contemners was forfeiture of their substance, and separation fro…

A female proselyte could not be circumcised. For her admission, therefore, if anywhere, account would have to be taken of baptism; but where the ceremonies of that admission and grafting into the people of God are enumerated, there is no mention of baptism (Deuteronomy 21:10-13)…

Matthew 18:16. But if he shall not hear you, take yet with you, one or two, that of the mouth of two or three witnesses, the whole matter may be confirmed. Deuteronomy 21:18. If any man shall have a stubborn and rebellious son, which hearkens not to the voice of his father, nor…

So (Deuteronomy 10:20): "You shall fear the Lord your God, and serve him." Christ expounds it (Luke 4:8) exclusively: "You shall serve only the Lord," because it is the prerogative of God to be worshipped, as it is a prerogative of grace to be the ransomed and redeemed of God (D…

Our obedience must not onely be in doing this or that, but also in suffering the miseries [••]d on us to the death: this is the best obedience of all, and the truest marke of Gods child, to obey in our sufferings. Moreover, that Christ was accursed, it is confirmed by the senten…

In this respect, the Jews were permitted to sell their children (Exodus 21:7). And so sacred a thing was the authority of the parent, that he which rebelliously despised the same, was put to death (Deuteronomy 21:21). This authority shows itself, specially in two things: in the…

9. That false Witnesses have that done to them, which they would have done to others, or brought upon them (Deuteronomy 19:19). 10. That a Calf be slain where a dead Body is found, the Murderer not known (Deuteronomy 21:1). 11. That six Cities of refuge for the Man-slayer be app…

To the execution of these penalties there was added, two cautionary Laws. First, That they that were put to death for the increase of their ignominy, and terror of others, should be hanged on a Tree (Deuteronomy 21:21). Secondly, That they should be buried the same day (v. 23).

As when the sea has made [] breach into the land, if it cannot possibly be stopped, the best course is, to make it as narrow as may bee. Such was the law concerning vsurie, Deut. 23. 20. permitting the Iewes to exercise it upon a stranger, but not towards a brother: and the like…

By the blessing of God we have had his kingdome among us for many yeares in this nation, and God has givē us with it, peace, & protection, with great abundance of temporall blessings: Indeede God has sundry waies corrected us, and laid his heauie hand upon us in sundrie iudgeme…

Thirdly, he that conceals a murder is guilty of it. And therefore we read (Deuteronomy 21:6-7) that in case a man were found slain, and the murderer unknown; the elders of that city were to assemble, and wash their hands, and protest, that they had not shed this blood, neither h…

And Plutarch tells of Agesilaus, that he cast off voluptuous pleasures to his slaves, as better beseeming a base quality and servile nature, then himself. You mayest think to live in pleasure is a brave life, but it is the basest life that is; so God judges it: Hence the same wo…

Sometimes dislike of a former wife makes a father dislike the children he has by her, and through dislike to disinherit the heir by her. God gave the Jews an express law against this kind of partiality (Deuteronomy 21:15 and following). Sometimes again a grasping seeking of adva…

Therefore when children are so far out of order as to set light by their fathers and mothers: God will have them dispatched out of the world: for they are monsters, and an infection to defile the whole earth. Also he will not have any long examination, for such as lift up themse…

To which, considering the judgement of divers learned men in their Commentaries upon most of these places of Scripture concerning the enquiring by Vrim, and others in their writings going this way, of enquiring in cases of war, distresses and for public persons enquiring not her…

Nor could any offering be made for sin, without a Typical translation of the guilt of sin unto it. And therefore when an offering was made for the expiation of the guilt of an uncertain Murther, those who were to make it by the law, namely, the Elders of the City that were next…

Now the outward covenant made with them, who were the children of Abraham after the flesh, was representative of the Covenant of Grace made with the children of Promise, and that whole people typified the hidden elect people of God; so that of both there is the same reason. Thus…

From this curse (I say) that Christ might redeem us, he was made a curse for us. For it is written: Cursed is every one that hangs upon the tree (Galatians 3:13; Deuteronomy 21:22-23). In the chapter following indeed he says, that Christ was made subject to the law, to redeem th…

We are dead to the Law, by the Law. Now we are said to be dead to the Law by the Law: First, because the sentence and curse of the Law crucified Christ our head, and so consequently in him crucified us (Galatians 3:13; Deuteronomy 21:23). Now then the Law gives sentence against…

The Mosaic Law made adultery a death penalty (Leviticus 20:10): The adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. The usual death was stoning (Deuteronomy 22:24). The Saxons commanded the persons taken in this sin to be burnt.

It is a breach of the Ninth Commandment. Was it a sin under the law to defame a virgin (Deuteronomy 22:19), and is it not a greater sin to defame a saint, who is a member of Christ? The Heathens, by the light of nature, abhorred this sin of slandering.

But ordinarily their joy was mixed and allayed with a respect to temporal things. See (Leviticus 23:39, 40, 41; Deuteronomy 22:11, 12, 18; Chapter 16:11, 27). This was the end of their annual festivals.

They condemned a stubborn son to death (Deuteronomy 21:19). They chastened a man who had spoken falsely of his wife, that he found her not a virgin (Deuteronomy 22:15, 16, 18). Answer: first, if it should be granted, that the Elders spoken of in these places, were civil Magistra…

Reason 1. It is first taken from the love we owe them. Secondly, from the love we owe ourselves. First, the love we owe to our brethren, God requires our love to our brethren, indeed towards our enemies' ox or ass, we should not see one of them fall under their burden or go astr…

The second note, whereby we may discern a judicial law to be moral for its equity, is this; If it follows necessarily and immediately from the light, principles, and conclusions of nature. For example (Deuteronomy 22:5): the man shall not put on the things that pertain to the wo…

In Numbers 30:6, the father may make void the vow of the child pertaining to God's worship: much more a matrimonial promise. If a young man defile a maid, and this be found, in equity he is to be compelled to marry her (Deuteronomy 22:28), yet by God's law this may not be, excep…

The participle μεμνηστευμένην, which is employed by the Evangelist, signifies that the virgin had then been engaged to her bridegroom, but was not yet given as a wife to her husband. For it was customary among Jewish parents to keep their daughters some time at home, after they…

When a “damsel betrothed to an husband” was convicted of being unchaste, the law condemned both of the guilty parties as adulterers: “the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbor’s wife,” (Deuteronomy 22:23, 24.) The phr…

[in non-Latin alphabet] has respect only to Age, and signifies any one married, or unmarried, a Virgin, or one deflowered, so she be young. [in non-Latin alphabet] also is used for one corrupted (Deuteronomy 22:23, 24) as also for a Widow (Joel 1:8). So that by this word, a Virg…

This about the borders of their garments, was an after institution, yet because of its answerableness to this, we may add it in this place. To this purpose, God gives his command (Numbers 15:38, 39, 40): Speak to the Children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes,…

2. That the blood of beasts and birds killed to be eaten, be covered with earth or dust (Leviticus 17:23). 3. That the mother be left free from the nest, when the young ones are taken (Deuteronomy 22:6). 4. That the signs of clean and unclean beasts be diligently observed (Levit…

It is called a great wickedness against God, even on the unmarried man's part. And (Leviticus 20:10; Deuteronomy 22:22) the temporal punishment assigned to it, is no less than death: the same punishment that belonged to murder, and greater than was inflicted for theft. And if hu…

First, labor to approve to God and your own souls, that you are indeed Gods people particularly; you are his people in a way of outward profession, and to men you do approve yourselves, so far as we hope you are Gods people, but you must approve yourselves to God, and to your co…

As love provokes a husband to do his wife what good he can, so hatred, to do her what mischief he can. Moses notes a man's hatred of his wife to be a cause of much mischief: for the nearer, and dearer any persons be, the more violent will that hatred be which is fastened on them…

Under the Law if a man met a woman and lay with her, if she consented she died, but if she cried out she was innocent and acquitted. So if when Satan assaults us, he obtains consent from us, we die; for sin when it is finished, brings forth death; But if we consent not, but cry…

We should yearn toward them in mercy, and put on the bowels of tenderness and compassions toward them in lending what possible relief may be to the utmost of our abilities; not only religion will enjoin this, and reason persuade, but even nature and humanity might compel and con…

Let us but look into the Scriptures for the violation of other commands of God, as in the 6th, 7th and 8th Commandments, and we shall find that where the higher degrees and violations had greater punishments, the others went not scot-free. For example, when adultery was punished…

2. THESIS. The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament in many places set forth and command to ask for, follow after, walk in that one good way, to strive and contend earnestly for that one faith, to hold fast the truth, to serve God only; and on the contrary reproves, prohibits…

(1 Corinthians 11:14) 2. The like shift is that which is used to decline the stroke of (Deuteronomy 22) against stage-plays, where the man that puts on woman's apparel is said to be an abomination to the Lord. A fearful thunderbolt.

6th Commandment: You shall not kill. He breaks this commandment: who bears malice to another (1 John 3:15); who is given to hastiness (Matthew 5:22); who uses inward fretting and grudging (James 3:14); who is froward of nature, hard to please (Romans 1:31); who is full of rancor…

'Tis reported of the Stork (that chaste creature) that it confines itself to its own nest; and if any of the Storks leaving his own mate, joins with any other, the rest fall upon him, and pluck his feathers from him. God would have the adulterer put to death (Deuteronomy 22:22).…

The Devill had rather play at small game then not to game: if he cannot damn a man by keeping him under the power of sin, he will terrifie him by troubling him with the guilt of sin. Answ. 5 Lastly, Consider this, that the co[•]fessing & contesting with corruptions, is in the ac…

Christiana: Aye, quoth Christiana, you would have us body and soul, for I know it is for that you are come; but we will die rather upon the spot, than to suffer ourselves to be brought into such snares as shall hazard our well-being hereafter. And with that they both shrieked ou…

And to the performance of this, not only reason persuades us, but religion binds us, and pity moves us. See what the Lord says by Moses, if a man see his neighbor's ox or donkey fall into distress by the way the Lord commanded to ease him and succor him, indeed to lay all busine…

When we see his countenance changed, his spirit sinking, and the whole man falling flat down, everyone would gladly take any course to help him: Truly there is not any poor Christian, but when he comes home to God, is in this very case; heart dejected, spirit cast down, much ado…

This rule is not ceremonial, but grounded upon the law of nature, and common honesty. Deuteronomy 22:5: The woman shall not wear that which pertains to the man, neither shall a man put on women's raiment: for all that do so, are abomination to the Lord your God. Secondly, our ap…

4. Before the kingdom of grace comes into us we are spiritually illegitimate, of the bastard brood of the Old Serpent (John 8:44). To be illegitimate is the greatest infamy (Deuteronomy 23:2). A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord to the tenth generation.

The Scripture confutes it. When you come into the standing corn of your neighbor's, you shall not move a sickle to your neighbor's corn (Deuteronomy 23:25). Property must be observed.

Covetousness causes uncleanness. You read of the hire of a whore (Deuteronomy 23:18). An adulteress for money sets both conscience and chastity to sale.

Fourthly, from this root of covetousness comes uncleanness. You read of the hire of a whore (Deuteronomy 23:18): for money she would let both her conscience and chastity be set to sale. O if you would be kept from the evil of sin, beware of covetousness which is the inlet to so…

First, in the toleration of houses of prostitution, flat against the commandment of God. Deuteronomy 23:17: There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a male prostitute of the sons of Israel. And this toleration is an occasion of uncleanness…

Guide to Sion, pag. 5. The place (Deuteronomy 23:1, 2, 3) is well worthy of observation. It is ordained that he who is wounded in the stones, or has his privy member cut off, or is a Bastard, or an Ammonite, or a Moabite, shall not enter into the Congregation of the Lord to the…

Mark the equity of this law: and that is, that things evil and accursed, are to be removed from the eye and sense of man. This charge the Lord gives of lesser matters, namely, of sights indecent, and unseemly (Deuteronomy 23:15). Again, we are commanded not so much as to name fo…

Whoever does evil, must fear: because the magistrate bears the sword to punish (Romans 13:4). And the commandment of God was, that there must be no whore in Israel (Deuteronomy 23). Therefore the permission of the Stews in Rome is without warrant: and the rather, because there t…

3. for men of the same country. Thus all the Jews are called brethren one to another (Deuteronomy 17:15), From among your brethren shall you make a king over you, and (Deuteronomy 23:19), You shall not give to usury to your brother, and (Romans 9:1), Paul says, he could wish him…

11. That the Ashes be removed from the Altar every day (Leviticus 6:10). 12. That the Unclean be separated from the Camp and Temple (Numbers 5:2; Deuteronomy 23:10). 13. That Aaron and his Posterity have the principal place and honor in Sacred things (Leviticus 21:8).

But the curse causeless (says Solomon) shall not come. And we may say to England as Moses did to Israel concerning Balaam's curse (Deuteronomy 23:5): Nevertheless the Lord your God would not hearken to Balaam: but the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, becaus…

As when the sea has made [] breach into the land, if it cannot possibly be stopped, the best course is, to make it as narrow as may bee. Such was the law concerning vsurie, Deut. 23. 20. permitting the Iewes to exercise it upon a stranger, but not towards a brother: and the like…

Hence the Prophet compares adulterers to fed horses, every one neighing after his neighbor's wife (Jeremiah 5:8). And God joins such impure persons with the vilest and most detestable of brute beasts (Deuteronomy 23:18): You shall not bring the hire of a whore, nor the price of…

Obj. But Heman says (Psalm 88:13), In the morning shall my prayer prevent you, so the word [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] in piel, antecessit, antevert it, praeoccupavit, anticipavit; its to go before in time, in earliness (Psalm 119:148), Mine eyes prevent the night watch. Deutero…

And God was so strongly set upon revenge of this people, that because Saul spared Agag, and the fat of the cattel, though in pity, though under pretense of Sacrifice, the Lord therefore rejected him, and accounted his sin as rebellion and witchcraft, so as he would not have Samu…

Indeed, the Scripture compares them to the filthiest of beasts. even to Dogs: When Ishbosheth charged this sin upon Abner, 2 Samuel 3:8. Am I a Dogs head, (says he) that you chargest me with a fault concerning this woman? And in Deuteronomy 23:18. The hire of a whore, and the pr…

If it be temporal, whatever pains us, is but a flea-biting to eternal torments. Whatever pleases or delights, it is but a may game to eternal joys; so for use too, it is but for a season (Deuteronomy 23:24), the Law gave an indulgence to eat of his neighbor's grapes for refreshm…

Thus he lays their sin and danger before them pretty roundly, and yet, says God, he restrained them not — there was an omission and neglect of more severe discipline; and this omission cost him dear, as dear almost as the sins of commission did cost his sons, which was not to be…

Ninth, it is the cause of unchastity. The Scripture mentions the hire of a prostitute (Deuteronomy 23:18). For money, both conscience and chastity are set for sale.

And if God establish David's seed forever (Psalm 89:4) and the seed of his people shall possess the gates of their enemies (Genesis 24:60) and if he pour his Spirit upon the seed of Jacob (Isaiah 44:3) and circumcise the heart of the seed of his people (Deuteronomy 30:6) and put…

The Saints live suitably to their high birth, they breathe after God's love, they aspire after glory, they set their feet where worldly men set their heart; they display the Banner of the Gospel, lifting up Christ's Name and interest in the world. 7. The godly are happy persons:…

3rd Commandment: You shall not take the name of the Lord, etc. He breaks this commandment: who does irreverently use God's titles in his talk (Philippians 2:10); who swears to do a thing lawful and good and yet does it not (Matthew 5:23); who swears rashly (Jeremiah 4:2); who us…

He answered, they are the King’s, and are planted here for his own delight, and also for the solace of pilgrims. So the gardener had them into the vineyards, and bade them refresh themselves with the dainties (Deuteronomy 23:24); he also showed them there the King’s walks and ar…

Secondly, when the vow is made, none can punish and take revenge of the breach thereof, but God. Thirdly, in the Old Testament, the Jews never vowed but to God, because the vow was a part of God's worship (Deuteronomy 23:21): When you shall vow a vow to the Lord your God, you sh…

And accordingly we find that God remembered it a long time after (1 Samuel 15:3). And how highly did God resent it in the Moabites and Ammonites, that they did not lend a helping hand, and encourage and promote the affair? (Deuteronomy 23:3-4): "An Ammonite or Moabite shall not…

(2) Because we are commanded in the Word to make our vows to God and perform them, but nowhere are we appointed to make our vows to saints departed (Psalm 58:14). (3) Because God only is the trier and searcher of the heart, and it is he only that knows the sincerity of the man's…

1. By taking away that which is necessary for the sustentation of life: As, to take away those tools or utensils whereby a man gets his living. (Deuteronomy 24:6) No man shall take away the nether or the upper millstone to pledge, for he takes a man's life. 2. By not helping him…

Yet if God disables you by providence, it is no discredit to your profession, because you do not do that which you cannot do. So long as it is your desire and endeavor to do what you can and ought to do, in this case God's will is that leniency and forbearance be exercised towar…

I shall not omit it, because it falls in the next chapter, (Hebrews 12:23), that in that stupendous assembly of heaven, God the judge of all is mentioned between the church of the firstborn which are written in heaven; this before: and the Spirits of justified men made perfect;…

And thus the wife was set at liberty, and her innocence approved; and the fault was laid only upon the husband, to whose discontented mind the cause of this rent was imputed. Moses ordained this law (Deuteronomy 24:1) in regard of the people's hardness of heart, as witnesses our…

As the Jews falsely imagined that they discharged their whole duty toward God, when they kept the law in a national manner, so whatever the national law did not forbid, they foolishly supposed to be lawful. Divorces, which husbands were wont to give to their wives, had not been…

But after that they are grown and waxen strong, then see them to be killed and sacrificed with the cross. The same sense and meaning has that law which we read in Deuteronomy 24: That a man taking a new wife, shall not be compelled to go to war the first year, lest he should be…

9. That ears of corn be left for the poor in harvest (Leviticus 19:9). 10. That a sheaf of corn forgotten, be left for the poor, not sought for again (Deuteronomy 24:19). 11. That the gleanings of the vine branches, be left to the poor (Leviticus 19:10).

This law the Iewish Teachers did falsly interpret; for the better perceiuing wherof, these three points are to be handled, touching Moses politicke law: 1. what kinde of law it was: 2. the straitnesse of that law: 3. what effect and force it had. For the first, the law is set do…

And how many withhold the hire of the laborer, who when he has wearied out himself in their service, is denied that small reward which he requires for his necessary refreshment? Indeed not only denying it, but even deferring it beyond the time that they can conveniently be witho…

(Leviticus 19:13) The wages of him that is hired shall not abide all night with you, until the morning. And again, (Deuteronomy 24:14-15) You shall not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy; at his day you shall give him his hire; neither shall the sun go down upon it,…

Indeed the Lord is not in the world, as the soul is in the body, but in an incomprehensible manner, which we cannot express to you; yet this is an expression which we may help ourselves by, and is used everywhere in Scripture. Thirdly, consider his attributes, that he is a Spiri…

Or by bad Payment and unjust Deductions and Allowances, defrauded them of a part of their due? Malachi 3:5. Or at least delayed payment, ou[•] of a covetous disposition to gain by it; while their necessities in the mean time cryed aloud for it; and so sinned against God's expres…

1. The children of God make more of a promise, than others do; and that upon a double account: Partly because they value the blessing promised: Partly because they are satisfied with the assurance given by God's word; so that whereas others pass by these things with a careless e…

It is not justice but cruelty, when others lie at our mercy, to be like that hard-hearted creditor in the gospel who took his debtor by the throat saying, 'Pay me what you owe' (Matthew 18:28). God made a law (Deuteronomy 24:6): No man shall take the lower or upper millstone to…

And that by [you] the Magistrate is understood, and so by this command, the care of the public worship and Sabbath to see it sanctified, is given to the Magistrate, is further proved from those words, nor the stranger that is within your gates. By gates, in that place, are under…

Of the other sort, that is an example which is in Moses: This shall be our righteousness, if we keep all these commandments (Deuteronomy 6:25). And if you take exception and say that this is a promise of the law, which being knit to a condition impossible, proves nothing — there…

It is that which we commonly call justice, a virtue whereby is given to every one their due, whether it be to God or man. Righteousness is often restrained to that part of justice, which respects man, and so is the sum of the second table; but then either some other word is join…

(1) Because the judicial law was delivered by Moses to the Israelites to be observed, as to a body politic (Exodus 21). (2) Because this law, in many things which are of particular right, was accommodated to the commonwealth of the Jews and not to other nations also (Exodus 22:3…

And to deride his priesthood, they put a robe on him, and when he is on the cross and offering himself as our priest in a sacrifice to God, all that passed by wagged their head and shot out the lip, saying, "He trusted in God, let God save him." Then the spitting on his face — i…

Such laws as are merely judicial, that is, judicial and not moral, and do particularly concern the nation of the Jews, the land of Canaan, the times before Christ, the things of the Old Testament, are abrogated. Of this kind is the law that commands the brother to raise up seed…

And not without reason, therefore, does Paul enjoin a teacher to be furnished with armor for repelling the adversaries of the truth, (Titus 1:9.) With respect to the law, (Deuteronomy 25:5,) by which God commanded the relatives, who were nearest of kin, to succeed the dead in ma…

3. That the seven Nations of Canaan be blotted out (Deuteronomy 20:16). 4. That the Israelites remember what Amalek did to them (Deuteronomy 25:15, 16). 5. That the memory of Amalek be blotted out from under Heaven (Exodus 17:14).

First, Corporeal: Secondly, Such as respect the outward estate and condition of the offender: Thirdly, Capital. First, Corporeal punishment was that only of stripes, not exceeding the number of forty (Deuteronomy 25:23). An account of the Jews' opinions, and the manner of their…

And from this place it is that the Jews themselves in Midrash Coheleth, cap. 1, say, [in non-Latin alphabet]; The latter Redeemer is to be like the former. Deut. 25. v. 19. You shall blot out the remembrance of Amaleck from under Heaven, you shall not forget it. Jonathan; Targum…

It is a sore and great evil, not to join with Gods servants in their troubles; but how great an evil then is it, to adde affliction to their affliction, to join with their enemies against them, especially when they are weak in their suffering condition? Gods wrath against Amalek…

Since therefore God swears by his majesty, and is omnipotent, it is certain that he will leave no injury unavenged. Moreover we see that Moses also faithfully carried out the command given him by the Lord in Deuteronomy 25:17, where indeed he expressly commands the people to be…

We would taste of the sweetness of mercy, but cannot endure the bonds and restraints of duty; as Ephraim would tread out the corn, but was loath to break the clods (Hosea 10:11). The prophet alludes to the manner among the Jews, their fashion was to tread out or thresh out their…

2. The qualification of the promise must be regarded by those that would have benefit by it: God's covenant is made with his people, 'tis a mutual stipulation, many would have comfort, we plead promises of safety with God, but forget promises of obedience to him; as Ephraim woul…

That which God has joined together, no man must put asunder. The prophet says, (Hosea 10:11) Ephraim is a heifer that is taught, and loves to tread out the corn; compared with (Deuteronomy 25:4) You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the corn. We are addicted to our own…

3. Use not false weights or measures, nor keep your books falsely: take heed of writing down more than was delivered or bargained for, or writing greater prices than were agreed upon. As to false weights and measures, they are utterly forbidden (Leviticus 19:35-36) and (Deuteron…

Sin makes men odious in the eyes of God (Psalm 5:5): you hate all workers of iniquity. The Lord abominates them (Deuteronomy 25:16): all that do unrighteously are an abomination to the Lord your God. Yes, sinners do by wickedness make themselves odious to good men (Proverbs 29:2…

It's an evidence of an Egyptian when an Israelite is going out of Egypt, he stinks in his nostrils. Indeed, a sad argument of a soul devoted to destruction (Deuteronomy 25:17-19). Exhortation: as to proceed the right way, so never to rest until [illegible] come to the right pitc…

Sixthly, supposing all Hagiomastix says were true, that those bodily punishments commanded by God under the old Law to be inflicted upon false prophets, idolaters, seducers, blasphemers, had been in some sense typical and presignificative of those greater and more spiritual unde…

If any man has a Suit or cause let him come to me, and I will do him justice; I will justify him, judge in his cause and pronounce for him. Deuteronomy 25:1. If there be a Controversie among men, and they come to judgment, that the judges may judge them, they shall justify the r…

Justify; it is Verbum [reconstructed: forense], a judicial word, used in courts of judgment, or a law-term, which usually is opposed to condemnation. And it signifies to absolve, to acquit from guilt, and accepting a man as righteous, or to pronounce him just and righteous, or g…

They answered, Yes; but we did not imagine, said they, that this fine-spoken man had been he. (Romans 16:17-18). Then I saw in my dream, that he commanded them to lie down; which when they did, he chastised them sore, to teach them the good way wherein they should walk (Deuteron…

Good Lord! adding iniquity to iniquity! The sin is marvelous, and the curse inconceivable. When Amalek met Israel and took them at advantage, because they were weak and weary, remember (says the text) what he did to you in the way, how he feared not God (Deuteronomy 25:17), and…

Why, verse 26: They have persecuted him whom you have smitten; If God has wounded a poor soul, and you add to his grief, it brings a heavy curse of God, not only upon yourself, but upon all your goods, lands, and estate, and soul too; Take heed therefore how you speak to the gri…

(1) Because the judicial law was delivered by Moses to the Israelites to be observed, as to a body politic (Exodus 21). (2) Because this law, in many things which are of particular right, was accommodated to the commonwealth of the Jews and not to other nations also (Exodus 22:3…

1. All God's royal edicts and precepts are to bring us to this, to be doers of his will; what needed God been at the pains to give us the copy of his law, and write it out with his own finger else. The Word is not only a rule of knowledge, but of duty; (Deuteronomy 13:4) (Deuter…

Chapter 24:3, 7. Deuteronomy 26:17. 2 Corinthians 8:5.

(1.) Leviticus 10:3; Hebrews 12:28, 29. (2.) Deuteronomy 26:17; Joshua 24:22; 2 Corinthians 8:5. (3.) Ephesians 4:12, 13, 14, 15, 16; Jude 20.

(6) They are meet for God, because they are as the first-fruits to him from the creation. When God took and rescued the Land of Canaan, which he made his own in a peculiar manner, out of the hands of his adversaries, and gave it to his own people to possess and inherit, he requi…

The other particular alleged by the Reverend Author, to show a difference between the Church of Israel, and our Churches, and that therefore children, when adult, might be under Mosaical Discipline, but not under Congregational, is this: Because in that Church grown members were…

And thus it was with holy David (2 Samuel 7:18): when God had confirmed the promise to him, to build him a house and not reject him as he did Saul, he went in before the Lord and said, 'Who am I? and what is my father's house, that you have brought me this far?' And so indeed Go…

And therefore seeing this Covenant is not repealed in the Scriptures of the New Testament, the Scriptures of the Old are sufficient warrant for it. Another Scripture to prove the same, is (Deuteronomy 26:16, 17, 18) with (Deuteronomy 27:9). This day the Lord has commanded you to…

I that have been struck this day, and am in such a dreadful condition, Would God have regarded the sin offering? God required joy in his services in (Deuteronomy 12:7, 18), and hence that profession was required in (Deuteronomy 26:13, 14): Then you shall say before the Lord your…

This — whatever it amounts to of spiritual misery — God solemnly caused these new theologians to acknowledge and confess, so that a sharper and firmer sense of it might penetrate into their hearts and consciences (Deuteronomy 26:5): "You shall declare before Jehovah your God, sa…

Now followeth the commandement: You shall have no strange, or other Gods before me. To have an other God, is to set up another, whom we will acknowledge to be of power, of goodness, justice, of some excellent nature, and therefore fear, love, reverence, hang on him, in all estat…

And such as have made a covenant with God by sacrifice, they are his people; of them it is said, I am your God, verse 7, according to the tenor of the covenant (Genesis 17:7): Behold, I make a covenant with you this day, to be a God to you, and to your seed. God becomes a God to…

In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory. They should profess to give up themselves entirely to Christ, and to God through him; as the children of Israel, when they publicly recognized their covenant with God; Deuteronomy 26:17. Thou hast avouched t…

And this he calls [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], a sign in its absolute, not relative sense, as denoting a work wonderful, such as sometimes he wrought, to evidence his great power thereby. In this sense [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], signs, are joined to [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉]…

13. That all first fruits of the earth, be brought to the sanctuary or temple (Exodus 23:19). 14. That the words appointed (Deuteronomy 26:5, 6, 7) be repeated over the first fruits. 15. That the heave-offering, or Terumah for the Priest be observed (Deuteronomy 18:4).

Againe, the mind by nature will not acknowledge Godsparticular prouidence, for in the time of want or distresse when meanes faile, his heart is dead within him: and the promise of helpe from man does more cheere him, then his hope in God; which shewes plainely that he trusts mor…

When the Israelites publicly covenanted with God according to the Institution in Deuteronomy, they did not only promise something future, but professed something present; they avouched Jehovah to be their God, and also promised to keep his Commands. Thus it was in that solemn Co…

Must my Life, indeed, my Eternal Life go for it, if I spare it? O then let me not be cruel to mine own Soul, in sparing my Sin; O my Soul, this foolish pity, and cruel Indulgence will be your ruine: If I spare it, God has said, He will not spare me, Deuteronomy 26:20. It is true…

Though his throne be in heaven, yet his providence is everywhere, his eyes behold, he sees how we behave ourselves in his presence; and his eyelids try the children of men: He may seem to wink now and then, and to suspend the strokes of his vengeance, but it is but for our trial…

Indeed there is a spiritual joy, and the more of that the more thankfulness: but in Hezekiah it was a carnal joy, a secure rejoycing in the outward things that God had bestowed upon him, and that made him to forget his thankfulness. There is a joy that the Lord calls for in his…

All mankind were fallen under condemnation by sin; God in his mercy picks up whom he pleases among these, and puts them under the means of Salvation, where he makes the offers, and proposes the terms of it to them; but still this is their natural estate, God therefore puts his p…

Leviticus 18:4: you shall do my judgments and keep my ordinances to walk therein. Deuteronomy 26:16: this day the Lord your God has commanded you to do these statutes and judgments; you shall therefore keep and do them — not only you shall know them, but obey them. The Word of G…

But under a pretense of preserving the name, the heart is ready to tempt a man to self-seeking (John 12:43): they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God. It is lawful to take comfort in estate and relations (Deuteronomy 26:11). But the heart will be ready here to ov…

And (Genesis 22:17), in blessing I will bless you. And when the Lord says (Isaiah 19:25), blessed be Egypt my people; he should mean, he would bless Abraham, not his seed, and that he minds to bless the aged of Egypt, and of Assyria, but not their seed and infants, because they…

The Scripture is clear, that consummate, and continued in doing to the end is required by the Law. Paul interpreting Moses (Deuteronomy 26:27; Galatians 3:10): Cursed be every one, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 who does not continue in all that are written in the Law to do them. (De…

Otherwise 1. no man should be ingrafted in Christ as branches in the Vine Tree, no man partakers of the Divine nature, no man quickened, but he that dies in final believing: Whereas, (John 5:24) he that believes before his final continuance to the end, ⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩,…

3. There were a third class of adversaries to free justification, Galatians, seduced and false Apostles, who contended for [reconstructed: Justification] by circumcision and the necessity of keeping the ceremonial law, if they would be saved (Acts 15:1-4, etc.; Galatians 2; Gala…

And say, thus says the Lord to Jerusalem, Your birth, and your nativity, is of the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite, and your mother a Hittite. When the Jews were to offer the first fruits to the Lord (Deuteronomy 26:5): And you shall speak, and say before the Lord you…

No, were they more precious and honorable actually before God from eternity, than the rest of the nations? No, the contrary is evident (Ezekiel 16:3; Deuteronomy 7:7-8; Psalms 147:19-20; Deuteronomy 26:5). Certainly, if faith or conversion to God (a special part of which is fait…

Deuteronomy 27:9-10. Take heed and hearken O Israel, This day you have become the people of the Lord your God; you shall therefore obey the voice of the Lord your God, and do his commandments. Quest. What is the duty that God requires of man?

Quest. What is meant by this word, Before me? Resp. That is, before my face, In conspectu meo, in my sight (Deuteronomy 27:15). Cursed be he that makes a graven image, and puts it in a secret place. Some would not bow to the idol that others might see, but they would secretly bo…

They despise their parents; they carry themselves with that pride and malapertness towards them, that they are a shame to religion, and bring their parents' grey hairs with sorrow to the grave. "Cursed be he that sets light by his father or mother" (Deuteronomy 27:16). If all th…

4. It is a cursed sin. If there be a curse for him that smites his neighbor secretly (Deuteronomy 27:4), then he is double cursed that kills him. The first man that was born was a murderer.

There be many who do more than covet their neighbors' wives — they take them. Deuteronomy 27:20: Cursed be he that lies with his father's wife, and all the people shall say Amen. If it were to be proclaimed, Cursed be he that lies with his neighbor's wife, and all that were guil…

His words, either preceptive or minatory, must be observed. Christ himself, as man, obeyed God the Father (John 4:34), much more than must we (Deuteronomy 27:10). 2. Obey God the Son (Psalm 2:12).

(Genesis 2:17) In the day you eat thereof you shall surely die. (Deuteronomy 27:26) Cursed be he that confirms not all the words of this law to do them. In this state and condition all mankind, had they been left without divine aid and help, must have perished eternally.

And this sentence was revived and represented anew in the curse wherewith this Covenant was ratified. 'Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this Law to do them' (Deuteronomy 27:26; Galatians 3:10). For the design of God in it was to bind a sense of that curse on the…

And the Apostle does well observe that Moses read every precept to the people: for all the good things they were to receive by virtue of that covenant depended on the observation of every precept. For a curse was denounced against every one that continued not in all things writt…

And therefore seeing this Covenant is not repealed in the Scriptures of the New Testament, the Scriptures of the Old are sufficient warrant for it. Another Scripture to prove the same, is (Deuteronomy 26:16, 17, 18) with (Deuteronomy 27:9). This day the Lord has commanded you to…

It is enough for us that we find in the Jewish Church, some Elders joined with the Priests, and employed in things ecclesiastical. The Elders and Priests are joined together both in the New Testament, as (Matthew 26:59) the chief Priests and Elders; so in other places before cit…

And then, Take heed to yourself that you offer not your burnt offering in every place that you see, but in the place which the Lord shall choose &c. And in Deuteronomy 27:5, You shall build an altar to the Lord your God, an altar of stones: you shall not lift up an iron tool upo…

That the first work may better be wrought, the Law has two properties (Deuteronomy 28:3, 15). Curse or punishment, which is the first, which punishes the least offence with the wrath of God, to be felt for ever in soul and body; called death (Galatians 3:10; Romans 6:23; Romans…

Indeed, the law was a severer teacher to awe the saints, in regard of the outward dispensation of ceremonies and legal strictness, keeping men as criminals in close prison until Christ should come. But imputation of Christ's righteousness, and blessedness in the pardon of sin, a…

In the first notion, Christ's death as coming from wicked men, lacked three ingredients, that all the wicked world and Hell could not give it: 1. All the world cannot add a curse to the death of any man, God only is the Master and Lord of cursing and blessing: God cast this in f…

Therefore by the contrary it is evident, that they which must receive the blessing are subject to the curse, that is to say, sin and eternal death: for else to what end was the blessing promised? Secondly, the Scripture shuts men under sin and under the curse especially by the l…

For if all sins deserve death, as Paul teaches (Romans 6:23), either venial sins are no sins, or they must needs deserve death. Moses says, that he that abides not in all things written in this law, is accursed (Deuteronomy 27:26), where the words, this law, may not be restraine…

Also, that by means hereof all the sacrifices by them devised were wicked and abominable, in regard God only ought to be heard, when there is any question touching his religion and worship. If you will turn it polished stones, then Isaiah taxes them for the contempt of the law,…

Wherefore it is also written, Cursed is every one that performeth not all things that are written, (Deuteronomy 27:26; Galatians 3:10;) by which words the righteousness of the whole Law, without exception, is enforced.

Did he ever declare that he would add no more to what he had commanded, or make no alteration in what he had instituted? What he had revealed was to be observed (Deuteronomy 27:29), and when he had revealed it: but until he declare that he will add no more, it is folly to accoun…

23. That he conceal nothing which may tend to his condemnation (Deuteronomy 13:8). 24. That we covet not, or turn to our use, any things, wherewith Idols have been adorned (Deuteronomy 27:25). 25. That we make no profit of any thing that belongs to false worship (Deuteronomy 7:2…

The original promise of life upon obedience, and the curse on its transgression were inseparably annexed to it; yes, were essential parts of it, as it contained the Covenant between God and Man. See (Genesis 2; Deuteronomy 27:26; Romans 6:23; Romans 4:4; Romans 10:5; Romans 11:6…

Besides they observe the number of the verses at the end of every book: as also that [in non-Latin alphabet] in [in non-Latin alphabet] Leviticus 11:42 is the middle letter of the Law; [in non-Latin alphabet], Leviticus 10:16 the middle word; Leviticus 13:33 the middle verse; th…

To this purpose see the excellent discourse, and invincible reasonings of our Apostle (Romans chapters 3 and 4). This the holy men of old confessed, this the Scripture bears testimony to, and this experience confirms, seeing every sin, and transgression of that law was put under…

The very sanction of it lyes wholly against them: The soul that sinns shall dye. Cursed is he that continus not in all things written in the book of the law to do them, Deuteronomy 27:26. Hence the apostle pronouncs universally without exception, that they who are under the law,…

Now though the seauenth day from the creation be not kept, yet a seauenth day is kept still. If it be further said, that the Law it selfe is abrogated; for that every one that breaks the Lawe is not accursed, according to the sentence thereof, Deut. 27. 26. Answer.

And this I take to be the clear scope of the apostle's argument. Now, whereas he says, It is written, he certainly refers us to Deuteronomy 27:26. Cursed is he that confirms not all the words of this Law to do them.

The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground. If there is a curse for him that smites his neighbor secretly (Deuteronomy 27:24), then he is double cursed that kills him. If a man had [reconstructed: slain] another unawares, he might take sanctuary, and fly to th…

Mine, which is mine." Husbandmen divide and separate their own lands from other men's; they have their landmarks and boundaries, by which property is preserved (Deuteronomy 27:17; Proverbs 22:28). So are the people of God wonderfully separated, and distinguished from all the peo…

2 Peter 2:14. Having eyes full of adultery, that cannot cease to sin (Deuteronomy 29:2, 3). 3. Threatenings and curses are charged upon every one who abides not in all that is written in the book of the Law to do it (Deuteronomy 27:26). And yet it's beyond controversy that no fl…

But Christ has 2. not departed from, and gone out of the ceremonial law, as touching the doctrinal teaching thereof to lead us to Christ; and therefore that law should be read, preached, believed, and stands clothed with the authority of canonical Scripture, otherwise Libertines…

In him he has made his truth glorious in the exact accomplishment of all his absolute threats and promises. The original threat of Genesis 2:17 — in the day you eat thereof you shall surely die — seconded with a curse, Deuteronomy 27:26, is in Christ accomplished and fulfilled,…

First, The nature and quality of this curse; or what is that curse which lies upon all wicked men? That will best be understood by considering that Scripture wherein the tenor of the law is described (Deuteronomy 27:26): Cursed be he that confirms not all the words of this law t…

And in 2 Samuel 7:25, when he speaks of God's promises he prays, "Establish it forever, and do as you have said." Look as on the one side, we are said to establish the law of God when we observe it, for so it runs (Deuteronomy 27:26): "Cursed be he that confirms, or establishes…

If most of them could not read, how could they join in singing that Psalm, unless some or other read, or pronounced the Psalm to them? Answer 4. Though it be true, that the church of Israel had such an ordinance among them, that after the reading of the Law, or the Prophets, som…

These are the persons God's soul hates (Proverbs 6:19): sowers of discord among brothers. These are the children of a curse (Deuteronomy 27:24): Cursed be he that smites his neighbor secretly — that is, who backbites and so sets one friend against another. If there is a devil in…

Mourn for the profaneness of the land; England is like that man in the gospel (Luke 4:33) who had a spirit of an unclean devil. Mourn for the removing of landmarks (Deuteronomy 27:17); mourn for the contempt offered to magistracy, the spitting in the face of authority. Mourn tha…

The wicked take more care to have sin covered than cured; if they can but sin in private and not be suspected, they think all is well. But there is a curse on him who puts sin in a secret place (Deuteronomy 27:15). The hiding and concealing of a disease proves fatal (Proverbs 28…

Do you not remember the curse that is to fall upon his head, that makes the blinde to wander out of the way? Deuteronomy 27:18. what curse then would be our portion, if we should confirm such blinde souls, that are quite out of the way to heaven, encouraging you to go on and exp…

So they expound (Exodus 20:20) the other Covenant was to restrain from all sin. Indeed and so was that on Mount Sinai, to do all that are written in the Book of the Law (Deuteronomy 27:26; Deuteronomy 28:1-4, etc.) to that same end, to love God with all the heart, and with all t…

4. If Christ prayed for infants as Matthew says the mothers or parents sought that of him (Matthew 19:13) his prayers must be grounded upon the word of the Covenant, and what could he seek for infants' peace in these, but Covenant mercies and salvation: for Christ was not to wor…

Ten Tribes are taken from David's house according to the Word of the Lord. Because therefore the threatening of death was executed upon Christ, (1 Peter 3:18) (Galatians 3:10-14) then must the threatening, (Genesis 2:17) (Deuteronomy 27:26) have been intended against the Man Chr…

Fifth, the river of water of life shown to John (Revelation 22) proceeds out of the throne of God and of the Lamb; then has the slain Lamb a throne forever. Verse 3: And there shall be no more curse there: the law of works as threatening a curse shall no more be there (Galatians…

And there may be running and no sending of God to Nations (Jeremiah 23:21), and (Psalm 147:19-20) when he denies, he declared his judgments and his statutes to any Nation, by sent Prophets, as he did to Jacob, if the Gospel then was of itself preachable to all Nations, Prophets…

And by a metaphor it notes suretyship and mixture of persons, as Mr. Legh: when one is tied for another, and mixed with him in his place. As Christ put himself in the bond and writ of blood that we were in: we were in the law-writ (Deuteronomy 27), under a curse, and Christ shif…

Third, what is required in lieu of it, to make satisfaction for it, is death — 'in the day you eat of it you shall die' (Genesis 3); 'the wages of sin is death' (Romans 6). Fourth, the obligation by which the debtor is bound is the law — 'cursed is everyone' (Deuteronomy 27); th…

Death and the curse of the law contain the whole of the punishment due to sin. Genesis 3: 'Dying you shall die' — that was the threat; death was what entered by sin (Romans 5:12), which word in those places is comprehensive of all misery due to our transgression, as also express…

This was that which was imputed unto Christ, whereby he was rendred obnoxious unto the curse of the law. For it was impossible that the law should pronounce any accursed but the guilty; nor would do so, Deuteronomy 27:26. 2.

If it be not performed, indeed if duty be [reconstructed: slacked] in any part, it bends her thunderbolt of curse. For this cause the Apostle says, that all they that are of the works of the law, are subject to the curse, because it is written: Cursed is every one, that fulfills…

Such a discipline is so far from a curse, that it is a very great blessing. Deuteronomy 27:26, compared with Galatians 3:10: Cursed be he that confirms not all the words of this law, to do them. Deuteronomy 29:19: And it come to pass, when he hears the words of this curse, that…

1. Would we have a blessing in our estates? Let us obey (Deuteronomy 28:1, 3). If you shall hearken to the voice of the Lord, to do all his commandments, blessed shall you be in the field; blessed shall be your basket and your store.

This name of God sets forth his majesty: Sanctius habitum fuit, says Buxtorf, the name Jehovah was had in more reverence among the Jews, than any other name of God; it signifies God's self-sufficiency, eternity, independency, immutability (Malachi 3:6). Use 1. If God be Jehovah,…

When we are commanded to keep the Sabbath day holy, there we are forbidden to break the Sabbath: when we are commanded to live in a calling, "Six days shall you labor," there we are forbidden to live idly and out of a calling. 2. Where any sin is forbidden, there the contrary du…

Magistrates may have a civil respect or veneration, God only a religious adoration. 5. To make God to be a God to us, is to fear him (Deuteronomy 28:58): That you may fear this glorious and fearful name, the Lord your God. This fearing of God is, 1. To have God always in our eye…

Quest. How many ways may we be said to take God's name in vain? Resp. 1. We take God's name in vain, when we speak slightly and irreverently of his name (Deuteronomy 28:58): That you may fear this glorious and fearful name, the Lord your God. David speaks of God with reverence (…

David tasted the Word sweeter than the honey and the honeycomb (Psalm 19:10). There is that in Scripture that may breed delight: it shows us the way to riches (Deuteronomy 28:5; Proverbs 3:16), to long life (Psalm 34:12), to a kingdom (Hebrews 12:28). Well then may we count thos…

1. By their tongues. 1. They speak irreverently of God's name: God's name is sacred: (Deuteronomy 28:58) "That you may fear this glorious and fearful name, The Lord your God." The names of kings are not mentioned without giving them their titles of honor, High and Mighty; but me…

2. This is the end of all God's promises to draw us to do God's will; the promises are lodestones to obedience, (Deuteronomy 11:27) A blessing if you obey; as a father gives his son money to bribe him to obedience. (Deuteronomy 28:1) If you shall hearken to the voice of the Lord…

This was the solemn sanction of all his institutions of old (Deuteronomy 6:4–5, 6, 7): Hear O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord, and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might; and these words which I command you this…

And the like has been the state of many of Gods children: Psalm 88:3, 7, My soul is filled with evils: thou hast vexed me with all thy waves, etc. Question. How can this stand with the truth of Gods word, wherein are promises of all manner of blessings both temporal and spiritua…

Thus Abraham immediately makes use of this Name (Genesis 14:22): I have lift up my Hand to Jehovah the most High God, the Possessor of Heaven and Earth. So are we taught to fear that dreadful and glorious Name, The Lord your God (Deuteronomy 28:58). See Isaiah 30:15, Chapter 57:…

For look as one cloud follows another, till the sun consume them: so one judgment hastens after another, and repentance only is the sun, which must dispel them. 3. Thirdly, it stands with the justice of God, according as he has revealed it in the Scripture, especially in Deutero…

2. We must yield him reverence in his worship: God is said (Psalm 68) to be terrible in the holy places: he is not only terrible in the high places of the field, where he executes his dreadful judgments, nor in the depths of the Sea, where the wonders of the Lord are seen, but t…

Proverbs 30:8: Give me neither riches nor poverty. Deuteronomy 28:22: Poverty is numbered among the curses of the law, none of which are to be vowed. And it is the rule of the Holy Spirit in 2 Thessalonians 3:10: He that will not labor in some special and warrantable calling mus…

And thus it is with Kingdoms, when God is visiting Kingdoms you shall have many that sit at the Stern, that all their thoughts are about carnal helps, whereas their great thoughts should be, how they might fall down before God, and seek to make peace with God and the Kingdom: th…

There are two branches in this note. 1. The curse of God staies not upon the parents, but goes towards the children; in Deuteronomy 28:18, 'Cursed shall be the fruit of your body,' and especially to the children of idolaters. In Psalm 137:8, 'O daughter of Babylon, who art to be…

Paulus Phagius (that learned man) says, that the Hebrews have this speech, that there are four keys that are in God's hand that he gives not into the hand of any Angel. 1. The key of the Rain; and that you have in (Deuteronomy 28:12): The Lord shall open to you his good treasure…

We may say this day, well, because we see what controversies there are and what differences of this and the other way and judgment, the Lord Christ (whose forerunner Elijah was to be) he will come ere long, and he will open all things to us, the Messiah will come again and tell…

5 Commanded, forbidden] So that every precept does not only command the good, or forbid the evil, but both (Matthew 22). That the first work may better be wrought, the Law has two properties (Deuteronomy 28:3, 15). Curse or punishment, which is the first, which punishes the leas…

God's heart is toward Ephraim as his dear child, and his bowels turned within for their misery, even when he speaks against them (Jeremiah 31:20-21). But the coals of the furnace cast upon reprobates are dipped in the curse of God; so that in a small affliction, even in the misc…

1. Some take word, for the word of precept; and expound it thus, if you be faithful to your duty, God will provide for you. For in every command of God, general or particular, there is a promise expressed or implied of all things necessary (Deuteronomy 28:5): "Blessed shall be y…

And he calls that which is bestowed upon the ministers of the word, seed, which being sown, does recompense the cost, thirty, sixty, a hundred fold: that so they might not think their labor lost, nor their cost bestowed in vain, seeing they were to receive, that which they laid…

For although they should take care how to live, yet should they be consumed by penury and famine: because the enemy shall spoil and waste whatever they have gotten by their industry. This place is taken out of Moses: for this curse among others is there pronounced. (Deuteronomy…

He calls them a terrible nation, because they should be an astonishment to all those that should behold them, being disfigured with such horrible calamities. For I cannot approve of their judgment who expound this of signs and wonders which the Lord showed among the Jews to make…

His meaning is, that this fear shall not last a day only, or some little space: as if the watchman should answer, I will tell you that tomorrow which I told you today; and if you fear now, you shall also fear tomorrow. Now it is a most miserable condition, when men are so troubl…

Alas! all our power is but weakness, except the Lord fortify and strengthen us with the power of his holy Spirit. This sentence is often found in the law; to wit, that when they have forsaken the Lord, many of them shall be put to flight before a few of their enemies (Deuteronom…

The Prophet borrows all these words from Moses, whom he follows so near, that we may well discern the style of the one, in the writings of the other. The Prophets therefore forged nothing of their own heads: for thus says Moses; 'You shall be an astonishment, a proverb, and a sc…

When he promises a peaceable enjoying of wheat and wine, it is to show, that when the Church is destitute of them, that it falls not out by chance, but by the just judgment of God. For as often as the enemies spoil and rob us of them, let us assure ourselves that this falls out…

In these two verses he puts them in mind of the blessings contained in the law; namely, that such as served God should inhabit the houses they had built, and should eat the fruits of their trees (Leviticus 20:10). As on the contrary, the rebellious should be driven out of their…

Like many others of his scriptural allusions, this is not marked by our Author. It approaches very nearly to the language of one of the curses pronounced by Moses on the people of Israel, "If they should not hearken unto the voice of the Lord their God;" -- "you shall grope at n…

Now, he exhorts him to indulge a foolish and vain confidence, -- to neglect the means which are in his power, -- to throw himself, without necessity, into manifest danger, -- and, as we might say, to overleap all bounds. As it is not proper for us to be discouraged, when we are…

(5.) Eye the Design and end of God in all your comforts. Know that it is not sent to satisfy the cravings of your sensual appetite, but to quicken and enable you for a more cheerful discharge of your duty, Deuteronomy 28:47 (6.) Eye the Way and Method in which your mercies are c…

That is, God will curse what you have, and what you do, because you will not hearken to God's call and counsel. So (Deuteronomy 28:38-46): You shall carry much seed into the field, and gather but little, the locusts shall consume it; there is one curse. And you shall plant viney…