Deuteronomy 16

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…

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 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…

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,…