Deuteronomy 32

If Adam in a few hours sinned himself out of Paradise, O how quickly should we sin ourselves into Hell, if we were not kept by a greater power than our own? But God puts underneath his everlasting arms (Deuteronomy 32:27). 2. From Adam's sudden fall, he fell the same day, learn…

Love the brotherhood. We bear affection to God's children, though they have some infirmities: there are the spots of God's children (Deuteronomy 32:5). But we must love the beautiful face of holiness, though it has a scar in it.

So there are several attributes of God, whereby we conceive of him, but one entire essence. Well, then concerning God's Justice, (Deuteronomy 32:4) Just and right is he. (Job 37:23) Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out, he is excellent in plenty of Justice.

Men, while they exercise their strength, weaken it: but God has an everlasting spring of strength in him (Isaiah 26:4). though he spends his arrows upon his enemies (Deuteronomy 32:23). yet he does not spend his strength (Isaiah 40:28).

The Ark was the cabinet in which God put the Ten Commandments, as ten jewels. 5. At the delivery of the Moral Law there was the attendance of many angels (Deuteronomy 32). Here was a parliament of angels called, and God himself was the speaker.

Thus your fathers have blasphemed me. Idolatry is devil-worship (Deuteronomy 32:17). They sacrificed to devils, not to God; to new gods.

The next attribute is God's truth; (Deuteronomy 32:4) — A God of truth, and without iniquity, just and right is he. (Psalm 57:10) For your mercy is great to the heavens, and your truth to the clouds.

This is like him in the Gospel, that had one devil go out of him, and seven worse spirits came in the room (Matthew 12:45). 4. The serpent is a venomous creature, 'tis full of poison (Deuteronomy 32:24). In this be not like the serpent.

Are there not with you, even with you, sins against the Lord your God? Are there not the spots of God's children (Deuteronomy 32:5)? If you are diamonds have you no flaws?

If a letter were read to one of special business, wherein his life and estate were concerned, would not he be very serious in listening to that letter? In the preaching of the Word, your salvation is concerned, and if ever you will attend, it should be now (Deuteronomy 32:47): I…

The sins of God's own children go nearer to his heart. Deuteronomy 32:19. When the Lord [reconstructed: saw] it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons and daughters. O forbear doing any thing that may reflect dishonor upon God.

Be serious and attentive in hearing the Word. Deuteronomy 32:47: For it is not a vain thing for you, it is your life. When people do not mind what God speaks to them in his Word, God does as little mind what they say to him in prayer.

Such as pollute God's Sabbath, oppose his saints, trampling these jewels in the dust; such as live in a contradiction to God's Word; these do engage the infinite majesty of heaven against them, and how dismal will their case be? Deuteronomy 32:41: "If I whet my glittering sword,…

The higher the water of the Thames rises, the higher the boat is lifted up; the higher that men's estates rise, the higher their hearts are lifted up in pride. In prosperity you are in danger not only to forget God, but to lift up the heel against him (Deuteronomy 32:15). Jeshur…

O how horrid is this, to sin against a bountiful God, to strike (as it were) those hands that relieve us: this gives a dye and tincture to men's sins, and makes them crimson. How many make a dart of God's mercies and shoot at him; he gives them wit, and they serve the devil with…

The disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ, having made that great confession of him, in distinction and opposition to them who accounted him only as a Prophet, you are Christ the Son of the living God (Matthew 16:14, 15, 16), he does on the occasion thereof, give out to them that g…

This is generally used in Scripture to express vengeance, more especially in the prophecy of Ezekiel. So also in Psalm 7:13: 'If he turns not, God has whetted his sword and prepared his instruments of death' — to inflict torments, and eternal torments also, as Deuteronomy 32 imp…

This sentence therefore is a thunderbolt of a most fearful threatening against all impenitent sinners; assuring them, that if they persist to profane God's holy name by their careless sinning against him, they shall be sure to find and feel him a powerful revenger of them that h…

Had God intended that this Law should have been perpetual, he would not have suffered its first constitution to have been accompanied with an express emblem of its disannulling. (2) Moses expressly foretells that after the giving of the Law, God would provoke them to jealousy by…

There were two things peculiar to the Gospel, the doctrine of it, and the extraordinary gifts of the Holy Ghost. Doctrine is compared to, and called Baptism (Deuteronomy 32:2). Hence the people were said to be Baptized to Moses, when they were initiated into his doctrines (1 Cor…

But that is not the fire that is here intended. It is devouring, consuming, destroying, such as answers the severity of God's justice to the utmost, as Isaiah 9:5; chapter 30:33; chapter 66:15; Amos 7:4; Matthew 18:8; 2 Thessalonians 1:8; Psalm 11:7; Deuteronomy 32:22. Therefore…

And we may consider concerning these testimonies, (1.) the Apostle's application of them to his purpose, (2.) the force that is in them to that end. 1. They are both of them taken from (Deuteronomy 32:35, 36). But in that place they seem absolutely to intend vengeance and judgme…

It is therefore the administration of the Word that is intended. And in other places the doctrine of the Scripture is frequently compared to Rain and watering (Deuteronomy 32:2): "My doctrine shall drop as the Rain, my Speech shall distill as the Dew, as the small Rain upon the…

But if hereby be meant, that the persons spoken of do break off themselves from their church-relation not only meritoriously, but actually and really, then it may be justly questioned, whether church-members can thus break off themselves. Sure Israel did not thus destroy themsel…

Gravel and Dung are good to ballast a Ship, and keep it from overturning: The Dung of sin helps to ballast the soul, that it be not overturned with vain-glory. We read of the spots of God's children, Deuteronomy 32:5. When a godly man looks at his face in the glass of Scripture,…

God cannot endure to have his eyeball touched. 6. God calls them his portion (Deuteronomy 32:9). As if his riches lay in them: a man seals a bag of money for his use: so the Lord seals his people as his portion with a double seal, the one of election (2 Timothy 2:19), the other…

1. Outward profession is nothing, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision; God disclaims interest in a sinful people; Your people which you have brought out of the land of Egypt (says God to Moses) when they had corrupted themselves (Exodus 32:7), in scorn and disdain. Your peo…

Hence that caution to Israel (Deuteronomy 6:10-12): 'And it shall be, when the Lord your God shall have brought you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you great and goodly cities which you did not build, and houses full of all goo…

To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine. God brings us into straits, that we may have more lively experiments of his tenderness in his seasonable relief: if he be angry, he will repent himself for his servants, when he sees their power is gone; because…

The second is, men are not at leisure; there are millions of businesses in their heads, so that they cannot hearken to the whisperings of conscience; they have no spare time to be wise to salvation. It will be our wisdom therefore to consider our end (Deuteronomy 32:29). To help…

They are life to your soul, and grace to your neck. So says Moses in (Deuteronomy 32:46): Set your hearts to all the words which I testify to you this day, for it is not a vain thing, it is your life. They are of great concernment; there's a curse annexed to the breach of every…

Oh it is a sad expression, what Israel! a vessel employed and received to empty out excrements! [1. Israel were a people precious and honorable in the eyes of God (Isaiah 43:4). [2. An holy people to the Lord (Deuteronomy 14:2). [3. They were God's peculiar people above all nati…

Let the words cited by the apostle in the Epistle to the Hebrews (Hebrews 1:6) — and let all the angels of God worship Him — serve as an example. Since some did not know from where the apostle had borrowed these words, they deemed it necessary to insert them at Deuteronomy 32:43…

These, because they are not that true God, are in reality not gods at all; such are the ones that this covenanted people ought not to have admitted. And in the same sense the term means "alien gods," or foreign gods, and similarly at Deuteronomy 32:16, and in many other places.…

(2 Kings 9:7). That I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets. So is the word [in non-Latin alphabet] — vengeance — used, (Deuteronomy 32:43). He will render vengeance to his adversaries. And if one and the same temporary judgment in the two thieves that were crucified…

Use: If God bestow saving grace freely on us, without hire and price, then temporal deliverances may be bestowed on the Church, when they are not yet humbled. It is true, 1. The people of God are low, and their strength is gone before the Lord delivers (Deuteronomy 32:36). (2.)…

Nor can Jesus Christ but tenderly, lovingly, and compassionately deal with his beloved; for Christ must draw them (John 6:44), sweetly allure them (Hosea 2:14; Isaiah 40:1), take them by the two arms, and teach them to walk, as the mother does the young child, who has not yet le…

Secondly, God commands all the reprobate, even by their way, to believe that Christ in his death intended their salvation, justification, conversion, and yet whereas God takes ways effectual, and such as he foresees shall be effectual for the efficacious working of justification…

For the work itself: intercession, as you have seen, is a part of the office of Christ's priesthood as well as his dying and offering himself. Now all the works of Christ are and must be perfect in their kind (even as God's are, of which Moses says in Deuteronomy 32:4: 'His work…

Answer: The good will and pleasure of God. Moses says, God chose the Israelites above all nations (Deuteronomy 7:6); he loved them (Deuteronomy 10:15); when he [reconstructed: divided] the nations, Jacob was his portion (Deuteronomy 32:8). He knew them above all nations, says Am…

X. The workes of God are perfect, Deut 32:4. Good workes, are workes of God: therefore they are perfect.

Verse 2. Hear, O heavens, and you earth hearken: for the Lord has said, I have nourished, and brought up children, but they have rebelled against me. Isaiah has here imitated Moses: for so it is the custom of all the Prophets to do; neither is it to be doubted but he alludes to…

Being then deprived of such a mercy, they justly felt the difference between the present evils, and the former benefits which they once enjoyed. This text will be the easier to understand out of Moses, whom the Prophets often follow: for in the promises, he says thus in express…

Now Isaiah sets down the conclusion of the promise here, which he had touched; namely, that the Egyptians and the Assyrians shall be blessed as well as Israel. For before, the grace of God was shut up as it were in Israel, in regard that the Lord had made a covenant with this pe…

He calls that the fire of the enemies with which God consumes his adversaries; taking this word fire, for God's vengeance: for it must not be taken here for that visible fire with which things are consumed in this world; neither yet for lightning only; but by a figure it is take…

And yet such a blindness cannot excuse nor free us from being guilty of malice: for they that offend God do it maliciously, notwithstanding they be hoodwinked, in respect of the violence of their lusts: ignorance and malice then are joined together; yet so, that this ignorance p…

Because their minds are distracted with many thoughts, and being forestalled with this opinion of fortune, they turn their minds rather to this or that, than to the Lord. Isaiah shows then that the sins of the people are the cause of such a ruin, and that the Lord is just in bri…

The word Jeshurun is diversely expounded, for some would derive it of Jashar, which signifies, To be upright, or, To please: others derive it otherwise: but I agree rather with those who translate Beloved, deriving it from the verb above mentioned. Moses also has given this titl…

For it is a thing that has many branches, indeed infinite and unmeasurable; so as if all the benefits that witness true friendship, were gathered into one, yet this affection, for the greatness of it, far exceeds all that can be thought or spoken of: there is no similitude there…

I will not give.] That is to say, I will not endure that any should rob me of my glory: but this had fallen out if the people had been utterly consumed, then would they have scorned the God of Israel; for the wicked were used to in the afflictions of the saints to disgorge these…