Deuteronomy 19

A false witness shall not be unpunished (Proverbs 19:5). If the witness be a false witness, and has testified falsely against his brother, then you shall do to him as he had thought to have done to his brother: that is, if he had thought to have taken away his life, his own life…

Heaven is the workhouse of all that befalls you; every evil is the birth that lay in the womb of an infinitely wise decree; so God is said to frame evil, as a potter does an earthen vessel (so [illegible] jatsar signifies) (Jeremiah 18:11); to frame a vessel of clay is a work of…

But since they chased them away, it was requisite that themselves should be chased and deprived of all help and succor. For just and equal is that sentence of the Lord, who commands that every one receive that measure which himself has measured (Deuteronomy 19:19-21, Matthew 7:2…

two or three witnesses. At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established, (Deuteronomy 19:15). Alluding to that law, Christ says that, when two or three witnesses shall rise up to condemn the obstinacy of the man, the case will b…

An eie for an eie, and atooth for a tooth: wherein the Lord requirs, requitall of like for like, not by every priuate man, but by the publike Magistrate. As if a man did put out his neighbours eie, then the Magistrate should put out his []ie; and strike out his tes, that strikes…

And if this rigor and wholesome severity were but once used, we should not have so many oaths set out to hire, nor would any make it a trade to be a witness; but innocency would be secured under the protection of the laws, and the laws themselves be innocent of the ruin of many…

It is an ancient law upon record (Genesis 9:6): Whoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed — as if there were no other way for expiation, no other method to wash away the stain and guilt of blood, but only by his who unjustly spilt it. And again (Deuteronomy 19:21…

For to demand one's right, is not contrary to love; nor to seek to amend and humble the party nocent by the magistrate's authority, who is the minister of God for good (Romans 13:4). And that others may hear and fear (Deuteronomy 19:20). And the party damaged may for the future…

7. He who Fears God is not only afraid of evil actions, but to offend God in his Thoughts. Deuteronomy 19:6. Beware that there be not a thought in your wicked heart, etc. To think of sin with delight is to act it over in the fancy, this is Culpable.

It is but reason we should allow God that value and esteem that we give to the testimony of men, who are fallible and deceitful. Among men, in the mouth of two or three witnesses every thing is established (Deuteronomy 19:15). Now there are three that bear witness in heaven, and…

Judas was a saint without, but a sinner within, openly a disciple, but secretly a devil (John 6:70). Some pretend to inward sanctity without outward; this is the pretense of the open sinner, though I sometimes drop an idle foolish word, says he, or though I sometimes swear an oa…

Some proceeded to banishment, some to whipping, some at last to the punishment of death. False witness was among the Jews punished with recompense of equal pain (Deuteronomy 19:18), in some places only with great shame, in some places with hanging, in other some with the Cross.…