Deuteronomy 26

1. All God's royal edicts and precepts are to bring us to this, to be doers of his will; what needed God been at the pains to give us the copy of his law, and write it out with his own finger else. The Word is not only a rule of knowledge, but of duty; (Deuteronomy 13:4) (Deuter…

And thus it was with holy David (2 Samuel 7:18): when God had confirmed the promise to him, to build him a house and not reject him as he did Saul, he went in before the Lord and said, 'Who am I? and what is my father's house, that you have brought me this far?' And so indeed Go…

And such as have made a covenant with God by sacrifice, they are his people; of them it is said, I am your God, verse 7, according to the tenor of the covenant (Genesis 17:7): Behold, I make a covenant with you this day, to be a God to you, and to your seed. God becomes a God to…

In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory. They should profess to give up themselves entirely to Christ, and to God through him; as the children of Israel, when they publicly recognized their covenant with God; Deuteronomy 26:17. Thou hast avouched t…

Againe, the mind by nature will not acknowledge Godsparticular prouidence, for in the time of want or distresse when meanes faile, his heart is dead within him: and the promise of helpe from man does more cheere him, then his hope in God; which shewes plainely that he trusts mor…

When the Israelites publicly covenanted with God according to the Institution in Deuteronomy, they did not only promise something future, but professed something present; they avouched Jehovah to be their God, and also promised to keep his Commands. Thus it was in that solemn Co…

Must my Life, indeed, my Eternal Life go for it, if I spare it? O then let me not be cruel to mine own Soul, in sparing my Sin; O my Soul, this foolish pity, and cruel Indulgence will be your ruine: If I spare it, God has said, He will not spare me, Deuteronomy 26:20. It is true…

Though his throne be in heaven, yet his providence is everywhere, his eyes behold, he sees how we behave ourselves in his presence; and his eyelids try the children of men: He may seem to wink now and then, and to suspend the strokes of his vengeance, but it is but for our trial…

Leviticus 18:4: you shall do my judgments and keep my ordinances to walk therein. Deuteronomy 26:16: this day the Lord your God has commanded you to do these statutes and judgments; you shall therefore keep and do them — not only you shall know them, but obey them. The Word of G…

But under a pretense of preserving the name, the heart is ready to tempt a man to self-seeking (John 12:43): they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God. It is lawful to take comfort in estate and relations (Deuteronomy 26:11). But the heart will be ready here to ov…

And (Genesis 22:17), in blessing I will bless you. And when the Lord says (Isaiah 19:25), blessed be Egypt my people; he should mean, he would bless Abraham, not his seed, and that he minds to bless the aged of Egypt, and of Assyria, but not their seed and infants, because they…

The Scripture is clear, that consummate, and continued in doing to the end is required by the Law. Paul interpreting Moses (Deuteronomy 26:27; Galatians 3:10): Cursed be every one, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 who does not continue in all that are written in the Law to do them. (De…

Otherwise 1. no man should be ingrafted in Christ as branches in the Vine Tree, no man partakers of the Divine nature, no man quickened, but he that dies in final believing: Whereas, (John 5:24) he that believes before his final continuance to the end, ⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩,…

3. There were a third class of adversaries to free justification, Galatians, seduced and false Apostles, who contended for [reconstructed: Justification] by circumcision and the necessity of keeping the ceremonial law, if they would be saved (Acts 15:1-4, etc.; Galatians 2; Gala…

And say, thus says the Lord to Jerusalem, Your birth, and your nativity, is of the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite, and your mother a Hittite. When the Jews were to offer the first fruits to the Lord (Deuteronomy 26:5): And you shall speak, and say before the Lord you…

No, were they more precious and honorable actually before God from eternity, than the rest of the nations? No, the contrary is evident (Ezekiel 16:3; Deuteronomy 7:7-8; Psalms 147:19-20; Deuteronomy 26:5). Certainly, if faith or conversion to God (a special part of which is fait…