Deuteronomy 24

1. By taking away that which is necessary for the sustentation of life: As, to take away those tools or utensils whereby a man gets his living. (Deuteronomy 24:6) No man shall take away the nether or the upper millstone to pledge, for he takes a man's life. 2. By not helping him…

2. If a parent in Israel was for his sin cut off from his people, were the children that he left behind him therefore excluded from the Commonwealth of Israel? To be sure, in crimes capitally punished (of which cutting off from their people is sometimes plainly meant, Exodus 31:…

Yet if God disables you by providence, it is no discredit to your profession, because you do not do that which you cannot do. So long as it is your desire and endeavor to do what you can and ought to do, in this case God's will is that leniency and forbearance be exercised towar…

I shall not omit it, because it falls in the next chapter, (Hebrews 12:23), that in that stupendous assembly of heaven, God the judge of all is mentioned between the church of the firstborn which are written in heaven; this before: and the Spirits of justified men made perfect;…

And thus the wife was set at liberty, and her innocence approved; and the fault was laid only upon the husband, to whose discontented mind the cause of this rent was imputed. Moses ordained this law (Deuteronomy 24:1) in regard of the people's hardness of heart, as witnesses our…

As the Jews falsely imagined that they discharged their whole duty toward God, when they kept the law in a national manner, so whatever the national law did not forbid, they foolishly supposed to be lawful. Divorces, which husbands were wont to give to their wives, had not been…

But after that they are grown and waxen strong, then see them to be killed and sacrificed with the cross. The same sense and meaning has that law which we read in Deuteronomy 24: That a man taking a new wife, shall not be compelled to go to war the first year, lest he should be…

9. That ears of corn be left for the poor in harvest (Leviticus 19:9). 10. That a sheaf of corn forgotten, be left for the poor, not sought for again (Deuteronomy 24:19). 11. That the gleanings of the vine branches, be left to the poor (Leviticus 19:10).

This law the Iewish Teachers did falsly interpret; for the better perceiuing wherof, these three points are to be handled, touching Moses politicke law: 1. what kinde of law it was: 2. the straitnesse of that law: 3. what effect and force it had. For the first, the law is set do…

And how many withhold the hire of the laborer, who when he has wearied out himself in their service, is denied that small reward which he requires for his necessary refreshment? Indeed not only denying it, but even deferring it beyond the time that they can conveniently be witho…

(Leviticus 19:13) The wages of him that is hired shall not abide all night with you, until the morning. And again, (Deuteronomy 24:14-15) You shall not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy; at his day you shall give him his hire; neither shall the sun go down upon it,…

Indeed the Lord is not in the world, as the soul is in the body, but in an incomprehensible manner, which we cannot express to you; yet this is an expression which we may help ourselves by, and is used everywhere in Scripture. Thirdly, consider his attributes, that he is a Spiri…

Or by bad Payment and unjust Deductions and Allowances, defrauded them of a part of their due? Malachi 3:5. Or at least delayed payment, ou[•] of a covetous disposition to gain by it; while their necessities in the mean time cryed aloud for it; and so sinned against God's expres…

1. The children of God make more of a promise, than others do; and that upon a double account: Partly because they value the blessing promised: Partly because they are satisfied with the assurance given by God's word; so that whereas others pass by these things with a careless e…

It is not justice but cruelty, when others lie at our mercy, to be like that hard-hearted creditor in the gospel who took his debtor by the throat saying, 'Pay me what you owe' (Matthew 18:28). God made a law (Deuteronomy 24:6): No man shall take the lower or upper millstone to…

And that by [you] the Magistrate is understood, and so by this command, the care of the public worship and Sabbath to see it sanctified, is given to the Magistrate, is further proved from those words, nor the stranger that is within your gates. By gates, in that place, are under…

Of the other sort, that is an example which is in Moses: This shall be our righteousness, if we keep all these commandments (Deuteronomy 6:25). And if you take exception and say that this is a promise of the law, which being knit to a condition impossible, proves nothing — there…

It is that which we commonly call justice, a virtue whereby is given to every one their due, whether it be to God or man. Righteousness is often restrained to that part of justice, which respects man, and so is the sum of the second table; but then either some other word is join…

(1) Because the judicial law was delivered by Moses to the Israelites to be observed, as to a body politic (Exodus 21). (2) Because this law, in many things which are of particular right, was accommodated to the commonwealth of the Jews and not to other nations also (Exodus 22:3…