Deuteronomy 27

Deuteronomy 27:9-10. Take heed and hearken O Israel, This day you have become the people of the Lord your God; you shall therefore obey the voice of the Lord your God, and do his commandments. Quest. What is the duty that God requires of man?

Quest. What is meant by this word, Before me? Resp. That is, before my face, In conspectu meo, in my sight (Deuteronomy 27:15). Cursed be he that makes a graven image, and puts it in a secret place. Some would not bow to the idol that others might see, but they would secretly bo…

They despise their parents; they carry themselves with that pride and malapertness towards them, that they are a shame to religion, and bring their parents' grey hairs with sorrow to the grave. "Cursed be he that sets light by his father or mother" (Deuteronomy 27:16). If all th…

4. It is a cursed sin. If there be a curse for him that smites his neighbor secretly (Deuteronomy 27:4), then he is double cursed that kills him. The first man that was born was a murderer.

There be many who do more than covet their neighbors' wives — they take them. Deuteronomy 27:20: Cursed be he that lies with his father's wife, and all the people shall say Amen. If it were to be proclaimed, Cursed be he that lies with his neighbor's wife, and all that were guil…

His words, either preceptive or minatory, must be observed. Christ himself, as man, obeyed God the Father (John 4:34), much more than must we (Deuteronomy 27:10). 2. Obey God the Son (Psalm 2:12).

Indeed, the law was a severer teacher to awe the saints, in regard of the outward dispensation of ceremonies and legal strictness, keeping men as criminals in close prison until Christ should come. But imputation of Christ's righteousness, and blessedness in the pardon of sin, a…

In the first notion, Christ's death as coming from wicked men, lacked three ingredients, that all the wicked world and Hell could not give it: 1. All the world cannot add a curse to the death of any man, God only is the Master and Lord of cursing and blessing: God cast this in f…

Therefore by the contrary it is evident, that they which must receive the blessing are subject to the curse, that is to say, sin and eternal death: for else to what end was the blessing promised? Secondly, the Scripture shuts men under sin and under the curse especially by the l…

For if all sins deserve death, as Paul teaches (Romans 6:23), either venial sins are no sins, or they must needs deserve death. Moses says, that he that abides not in all things written in this law, is accursed (Deuteronomy 27:26), where the words, this law, may not be restraine…

Also, that by means hereof all the sacrifices by them devised were wicked and abominable, in regard God only ought to be heard, when there is any question touching his religion and worship. If you will turn it polished stones, then Isaiah taxes them for the contempt of the law,…

Wherefore it is also written, Cursed is every one that performeth not all things that are written, (Deuteronomy 27:26; Galatians 3:10;) by which words the righteousness of the whole Law, without exception, is enforced.

The very sanction of it lyes wholly against them: The soul that sinns shall dye. Cursed is he that continus not in all things written in the book of the law to do them, Deuteronomy 27:26. Hence the apostle pronouncs universally without exception, that they who are under the law,…

Now though the seauenth day from the creation be not kept, yet a seauenth day is kept still. If it be further said, that the Law it selfe is abrogated; for that every one that breaks the Lawe is not accursed, according to the sentence thereof, Deut. 27. 26. Answer.

And this I take to be the clear scope of the apostle's argument. Now, whereas he says, It is written, he certainly refers us to Deuteronomy 27:26. Cursed is he that confirms not all the words of this Law to do them.

The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground. If there is a curse for him that smites his neighbor secretly (Deuteronomy 27:24), then he is double cursed that kills him. If a man had [reconstructed: slain] another unawares, he might take sanctuary, and fly to th…

Mine, which is mine." Husbandmen divide and separate their own lands from other men's; they have their landmarks and boundaries, by which property is preserved (Deuteronomy 27:17; Proverbs 22:28). So are the people of God wonderfully separated, and distinguished from all the peo…

In him he has made his truth glorious in the exact accomplishment of all his absolute threats and promises. The original threat of Genesis 2:17 — in the day you eat thereof you shall surely die — seconded with a curse, Deuteronomy 27:26, is in Christ accomplished and fulfilled,…

First, The nature and quality of this curse; or what is that curse which lies upon all wicked men? That will best be understood by considering that Scripture wherein the tenor of the law is described (Deuteronomy 27:26): Cursed be he that confirms not all the words of this law t…

And in 2 Samuel 7:25, when he speaks of God's promises he prays, "Establish it forever, and do as you have said." Look as on the one side, we are said to establish the law of God when we observe it, for so it runs (Deuteronomy 27:26): "Cursed be he that confirms, or establishes…

These are the persons God's soul hates (Proverbs 6:19): sowers of discord among brothers. These are the children of a curse (Deuteronomy 27:24): Cursed be he that smites his neighbor secretly — that is, who backbites and so sets one friend against another. If there is a devil in…

Mourn for the profaneness of the land; England is like that man in the gospel (Luke 4:33) who had a spirit of an unclean devil. Mourn for the removing of landmarks (Deuteronomy 27:17); mourn for the contempt offered to magistracy, the spitting in the face of authority. Mourn tha…

The wicked take more care to have sin covered than cured; if they can but sin in private and not be suspected, they think all is well. But there is a curse on him who puts sin in a secret place (Deuteronomy 27:15). The hiding and concealing of a disease proves fatal (Proverbs 28…

Do you not remember the curse that is to fall upon his head, that makes the blinde to wander out of the way? Deuteronomy 27:18. what curse then would be our portion, if we should confirm such blinde souls, that are quite out of the way to heaven, encouraging you to go on and exp…

So they expound (Exodus 20:20) the other Covenant was to restrain from all sin. Indeed and so was that on Mount Sinai, to do all that are written in the Book of the Law (Deuteronomy 27:26; Deuteronomy 28:1-4, etc.) to that same end, to love God with all the heart, and with all t…

4. If Christ prayed for infants as Matthew says the mothers or parents sought that of him (Matthew 19:13) his prayers must be grounded upon the word of the Covenant, and what could he seek for infants' peace in these, but Covenant mercies and salvation: for Christ was not to wor…

Ten Tribes are taken from David's house according to the Word of the Lord. Because therefore the threatening of death was executed upon Christ, (1 Peter 3:18) (Galatians 3:10-14) then must the threatening, (Genesis 2:17) (Deuteronomy 27:26) have been intended against the Man Chr…

Fifth, the river of water of life shown to John (Revelation 22) proceeds out of the throne of God and of the Lamb; then has the slain Lamb a throne forever. Verse 3: And there shall be no more curse there: the law of works as threatening a curse shall no more be there (Galatians…

And there may be running and no sending of God to Nations (Jeremiah 23:21), and (Psalm 147:19-20) when he denies, he declared his judgments and his statutes to any Nation, by sent Prophets, as he did to Jacob, if the Gospel then was of itself preachable to all Nations, Prophets…

And by a metaphor it notes suretyship and mixture of persons, as Mr. Legh: when one is tied for another, and mixed with him in his place. As Christ put himself in the bond and writ of blood that we were in: we were in the law-writ (Deuteronomy 27), under a curse, and Christ shif…

Third, what is required in lieu of it, to make satisfaction for it, is death — 'in the day you eat of it you shall die' (Genesis 3); 'the wages of sin is death' (Romans 6). Fourth, the obligation by which the debtor is bound is the law — 'cursed is everyone' (Deuteronomy 27); th…

Death and the curse of the law contain the whole of the punishment due to sin. Genesis 3: 'Dying you shall die' — that was the threat; death was what entered by sin (Romans 5:12), which word in those places is comprehensive of all misery due to our transgression, as also express…

This was that which was imputed unto Christ, whereby he was rendred obnoxious unto the curse of the law. For it was impossible that the law should pronounce any accursed but the guilty; nor would do so, Deuteronomy 27:26. 2.

If it be not performed, indeed if duty be [reconstructed: slacked] in any part, it bends her thunderbolt of curse. For this cause the Apostle says, that all they that are of the works of the law, are subject to the curse, because it is written: Cursed is every one, that fulfills…

Such a discipline is so far from a curse, that it is a very great blessing. Deuteronomy 27:26, compared with Galatians 3:10: Cursed be he that confirms not all the words of this law, to do them. Deuteronomy 29:19: And it come to pass, when he hears the words of this curse, that…

If this mean the ceremonial law, it seems, we have no assurance that Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the moral law, be that annihilation or what it may; but all that Christ has done or suffered notwithstanding, we are as liable to that curse, as we were before Christ un…

7. The way to heaven is sweeter, that it should be here, Nulla dies sine Linea, that every day and hour that we sin (as every hour we contract new debt) Christ's free grace might have its daily flux, the fountain opened to the house of David daily running, renewed forgiveness go…