Deuteronomy 10

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…

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…

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?

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,…

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.

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.

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…

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…

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.