Deuteronomy 11

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,…

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;…

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…

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…