Deuteronomy 21

Eli's two disobedient sons were slain (1 Samuel 4:11). God made a law that the rebellious son should be stoned; the same death the blasphemer had (Leviticus 24:14; Deuteronomy 21:18). If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father or the…

As the Israelites might marry the Midianite women, whom they had taken in war, but not till they had purified them, Numbers 31:18-19. And more plainly and particularly, Deuteronomy 21:11-13. Moses explains what that purifying is: And thou shalt bring her home into thine house, a…

So (Deuteronomy 10:20): "You shall fear the Lord your God, and serve him." Christ expounds it (Luke 4:8) exclusively: "You shall serve only the Lord," because it is the prerogative of God to be worshipped, as it is a prerogative of grace to be the ransomed and redeemed of God (D…

Our obedience must not onely be in doing this or that, but also in suffering the miseries [••]d on us to the death: this is the best obedience of all, and the truest marke of Gods child, to obey in our sufferings. Moreover, that Christ was accursed, it is confirmed by the senten…

In this respect, the Jews were permitted to sell their children (Exodus 21:7). And so sacred a thing was the authority of the parent, that he which rebelliously despised the same, was put to death (Deuteronomy 21:21). This authority shows itself, specially in two things: in the…

As when the sea has made [] breach into the land, if it cannot possibly be stopped, the best course is, to make it as narrow as may bee. Such was the law concerning vsurie, Deut. 23. 20. permitting the Iewes to exercise it upon a stranger, but not towards a brother: and the like…

By the blessing of God we have had his kingdome among us for many yeares in this nation, and God has givē us with it, peace, & protection, with great abundance of temporall blessings: Indeede God has sundry waies corrected us, and laid his heauie hand upon us in sundrie iudgeme…

Thirdly, he that conceals a murder is guilty of it. And therefore we read (Deuteronomy 21:6-7) that in case a man were found slain, and the murderer unknown; the elders of that city were to assemble, and wash their hands, and protest, that they had not shed this blood, neither h…

And Plutarch tells of Agesilaus, that he cast off voluptuous pleasures to his slaves, as better beseeming a base quality and servile nature, then himself. You mayest think to live in pleasure is a brave life, but it is the basest life that is; so God judges it: Hence the same wo…

Sometimes dislike of a former wife makes a father dislike the children he has by her, and through dislike to disinherit the heir by her. God gave the Jews an express law against this kind of partiality (Deuteronomy 21:15 and following). Sometimes again a grasping seeking of adva…

Therefore when children are so far out of order as to set light by their fathers and mothers: God will have them dispatched out of the world: for they are monsters, and an infection to defile the whole earth. Also he will not have any long examination, for such as lift up themse…

Nor could any offering be made for sin, without a Typical translation of the guilt of sin unto it. And therefore when an offering was made for the expiation of the guilt of an uncertain Murther, those who were to make it by the law, namely, the Elders of the City that were next…

From this curse (I say) that Christ might redeem us, he was made a curse for us. For it is written: Cursed is every one that hangs upon the tree (Galatians 3:13; Deuteronomy 21:22-23). In the chapter following indeed he says, that Christ was made subject to the law, to redeem th…

We are dead to the Law, by the Law. Now we are said to be dead to the Law by the Law: First, because the sentence and curse of the Law crucified Christ our head, and so consequently in him crucified us (Galatians 3:13; Deuteronomy 21:23). Now then the Law gives sentence against…