Deuteronomy 18

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…