Deuteronomy 1

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…

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…

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.…

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…

(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…