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…

This lyes plain in the command (Matthew 28:20): Teaching them to observe all things whatever I have commanded you. And we are directed to it in the injunction given us from Heaven, to hear, that is obey him in all things (Matthew 17:5), he being the Prophet to whose teachings an…

Q. What is the work of Christ as a Prophet? A. To reveal and make known to his people the counsel and will of God (Deuteronomy 18:18; John 1:18; John 4:25; John 15:15; Matthew 11:27). Q. How does he this?

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…

But this ministry, the dispensation of light and knowledge thereby, could not render it complete; yes, it was an argument of the darkness and bondage under which it was. For there was yet one greater than they all, and above them all, one more intimately acquainted with God and…

Until I Deborah arose, I arose a mother in Israel; that is, by an extraordinary call from God to be a prophetess and a deliverer. Deuteronomy 18:18: A prophet will I raise up to you; which was Christ himself. So God raised up a horn of salvation in the house of his servant David…

We have shown that Christ himself is closed with by a true faith; now I add more particularly; in all his offices he is closed with, or accepted of, otherwise we fall short of him at last. As a Prophet: Jesus Christ is a Prophet; and it is a precious consideration: it was foreto…

ers, would last only until an appointed time, and had a certain prescribed period beyond which it was lawful for no one to adhere to them. For that One would at length come, in whom all things were laid up, furnished with the authority of a lawgiver, who would most perfectly dec…

Two things are chiefly celebrated concerning it: the worship, and the place appointed for it. The worship was "the passing of offspring through fire" (Leviticus 18:21; Deuteronomy 18:10; 2 Kings 16:3, 21:10). There were two kinds of it — burning alive, and purifications by fire.

Here is forbidden the least remission or weakness (Revelation 2:4). Uprightness is, when the affection loves, desires, etc. in a single heart, only because God commands, and for that end; this is called simplicity, truth, a single heart (Deuteronomy 18:13; John 1:17; Ephesians 6…

In the order of the Church, as the means are more glorious and excellent, so we must prepare ourselves more earnestly on every side (Ecclesiastes 5:1). To the Lord, in the person of the Minister, whom we must receive as the Lord (Romans 10:15; 2 Corinthians 5:19-20), speaking hi…

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…

But waving these, let it satisfy the religious enquirer, that the astral influences, in that sense which I have explained them, are disallowed by the infallible test of all verity, the Holy Scriptures. When the divine law says, There shall not be found among you any one that use…

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.

What he had revealed was to be observed (Deuteronomy 27:29), and when he had revealed it: but until he declare that he will add no more, it is folly to account what is already done, absolutely complete and immutable. Therefore Moses when he had finished all his work in the Lord'…

And they principally respected these three heads. First, That they should possess the Land of Canaan, and there enjoy that worship which he had prescribed to them (see Exodus 6:4; chapter 34:10, 11; Leviticus 26:8, 9; Deuteronomy 18:18; chapter 29:13; Psalm 105:10, 11). Secondly…

Other Characters of the Messiah. He was to be a Prophet, Deut. 18:19. A Prophet like to Moses.

16. That the Annointing Oyl be made to annoint King and Priest (Exodus 30:25, 26, 27). 17. That the Families of the Priests minister in the Sanctuary by turns, but that all be present at the great Anniversary Feasts (Deuteronomy 18:6). 18. That the Priests mourn and be defiled f…

Thirdly, in judgments to be brought providentially upon the whole nation by pestilence, famine, sword and captivity, which are at large declared, Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28. Fourthly, total rejection of the whole body of the people, in case of unbelief and disobedience, upo…

Chap. 24.7, 17, 20, 24. Consent of Targums; Talmudists, Cabalists, Deuteronomy 18:15, 16, 17, 18, 19. The Prophet promised who.

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…

Without a right knowledge of God and his mind, there can be no true fear of him. That command also, for the Jewish Magistrate, to study it day and night, and to have the Book of the Law continually before him, because it was the rule of that civil polity, whereof he was under Go…

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…

Idolatry and idolaters not the adequate object of the magistrate's coercive power under the old Testament, but the whole worship and truth of God. from p. 27, to 34 The 17. of Deuteronomy 18:19. opened and proved to give magistrates the care of religion. p. 34, 35, 36, 37 Under…

You shall keep the Sabbath therefore, for it is holy to you: every one that defiles it, shall surely be put to death: for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. Deuteronomy 18:20, 22. But the Prophet which shall presume to speak a word i…

Secondly, the main foundation of the charm; societies or confederacies cunningly made, not between man and man, but (as the words import) between the enchanter and the devil. The like we read (Deuteronomy 18:11), where the Lord charges his people when they come into the land of…

And both these ways, sometimes by the noise, and sometimes by the flight, they divined of things to come, both public and private, of good and bad success in men's affairs; of the state of kingdoms, towns, families and particular persons. Now this kind of divination is condemned…

Enchantment is the working of wonders by a charm. This the Lord expressly forbids (Deuteronomy 18:11): Let none be found among you, that is a charmer. In this description, two points are to be considered: first, what things may be done by enchantment, namely wonders, for I say i…

In the times of ignorance the devil triumphs freely without control, but the mist and darkness of his delusions cannot possibly abide the bright beams of God's glorious will revealed by preaching. The Lord of ancient times commanded his people not to do according to those nation…

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…

O it is a most humbling thing to think that ever there should be such an abomination among us, as for a crew of Human Race to renounce their Maker, and to unite with the Devil for the Troubling of Mankind, and for people to be (as is by some confessed) baptized by a Fiend using…

Q. 1. How many are the Offices of Jesus Christ? A. Three; first, of a (a) King; secondly, (b) a Priest; thirdly, a (c) Prophet (a) (Psalm 2:6; (b) Psalm 110:4; (c) Deuteronomy 18:15). Q. Has he these Offices peculiarly by nature?

Q, 1. How many are the Offices of Jesus Christ? A. Three; first, of a (a) King; secondly, (b) a Priest; thirdly, a (c) Prophet. (a) Psalm 2:6. (b) Psalm 110:4. (c) Deuteronomy 18:15. Q. 2. Has he these Offices peculiar by Nature?

The like course did his successors proceed in. For neither had God in the first provision he made for a King among his people (Deuteronomy 18), nor in that prescription of the manner of the Kingdom which he gave them by Samuel, once intimated an exemption of any persons, Priests…