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…

And in that sense it is derived from Cipper in Pihel which signifies to remove or take away, and consequently to be propitious and merciful in taking away of sin, as also to appease, atone, reconcile, and purge, whereby sin is taken away. See Genesis 32:20, to appease; Proverbs…

Besides these, several others have been under vehement suspicion, and tried for their lives, on the account of this sin. We have all cause to pray for New-England, as the Lord's people of old were directed for to do, in case of an uncertain Murder (Deuteronomy 21:7, 8): They sha…

He says, there was no Senate nor Seniors among the Jews, but such as had power of life and death, of imprisonment, confiscation, banishment, &c., which he makes to appear thus: in the days of Ezra the punishment of contemners was forfeiture of their substance, and separation fro…

A female proselyte could not be circumcised. For her admission, therefore, if anywhere, account would have to be taken of baptism; but where the ceremonies of that admission and grafting into the people of God are enumerated, there is no mention of baptism (Deuteronomy 21:10-13)…

Matthew 18:16. But if he shall not hear you, take yet with you, one or two, that of the mouth of two or three witnesses, the whole matter may be confirmed. Deuteronomy 21:18. If any man shall have a stubborn and rebellious son, which hearkens not to the voice of his father, nor…

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…

9. That false Witnesses have that done to them, which they would have done to others, or brought upon them (Deuteronomy 19:19). 10. That a Calf be slain where a dead Body is found, the Murderer not known (Deuteronomy 21:1). 11. That six Cities of refuge for the Man-slayer be app…

To the execution of these penalties there was added, two cautionary Laws. First, That they that were put to death for the increase of their ignominy, and terror of others, should be hanged on a Tree (Deuteronomy 21:21). Secondly, That they should be buried the same day (v. 23).

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…

To which, considering the judgement of divers learned men in their Commentaries upon most of these places of Scripture concerning the enquiring by Vrim, and others in their writings going this way, of enquiring in cases of war, distresses and for public persons enquiring not her…

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…

Now the outward covenant made with them, who were the children of Abraham after the flesh, was representative of the Covenant of Grace made with the children of Promise, and that whole people typified the hidden elect people of God; so that of both there is the same reason. Thus…

The foulness of sin, the freeness of grace, and the fullness of duty — which in other pieces only scattered and sparkling here and there, are here collected under proper heads, and handled so professedly and clearly, as nothing more concerning them can be desired. In the first a…

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…