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…

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…

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…

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…

(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…

And in that he calls them his mountains; it is to show, that he has not only power to command them to give his people way; but he further expresses, that it shall be himself who will bring the Jews home; no less than if he went in person before them. He carried them up (says Mos…

But to the end he might procure himself the greater authority he uses this preface: for they were wont to write excellent and memorable things in verse; to the end every one might have it in their mouth, that so there might remain a perpetual remembrance of them. According as we…

Having spoken of the fruit of the Gospel among the Gentiles, who were before estranged from God's kingdom, he now spurs forward the Jews, that they may be ashamed to sleep while others ran: for seeing they were first called, it were a shame for them to come last. This exhortatio…

He speaks of the people's election, and brings in God discoursing of it, to put us in mind of the end of our vocation, namely, that he will have a people separated to him from the world, in the midst of whom his name may be worshipped and called upon. And yet therewith he accuse…

Now the people set not forth their merits before God, but flee to his free covenant by which they were adopted. For this indeed is the sure and only recourse the faithful have: this I say is a remedy against all evils, and that is the reason why Moses and all the Prophets do so…

Now the Lord had long before prophesied of this by Moses; so as this was not to seem any new thing. As they have provoked me, says the Lord, to jealousy, with that which is no God, and have stirred me up to wrath by their vanities: so also will I move them to jealousy by that wh…

And justly does the Lord speak in this manner; for that deliverance was a sort of birth of the nation. Then were openly produced letters of adoption, when, by the promulgation of the law, they became “the Lord’s portion,” (Deuteronomy 32:9,) “a royal priesthood, and a holy natio…

And here is described the calling of the Gentiles, which is to excite the Jews to jealousy, as we have it in the Song of Moses; They have provoked me by those who are not gods, and I will provoke them by that which is not a people, and by a foolish nation will I enrage them, (De…

A reproof nearly similar is employed by Moses, that God, like an eagle with outspread wings, (Deuteronomy 32:11,) embraced that people.

And that could not be done without the denouncing of the Jews. For here upon sprang the emulation, of which Moses makes mention, that God did appoint or take to himself a nation which were no nation, and did raise up a new people of nothing, who should possess the place from whe…

Therefore we do not otherwise give place to wrath, than when with quiet minds we expect a fit time of deliverance: in the meantime wishing that they who are now our adversaries, by repenting may become our friends. For it is written: He brings a proof taken out of the song of Mo…

And consider, Is it not a grievous thing to you? Does it not pain your hearts, that your Lord and Redeemer should have something against you (as it were laid up, noted, and put on record, kept in store, and (as himself remarkably expresses it) sealed up among his treasures (Deut…

The Instruments used by Providence may be very sinful & wicked, they may aim at base ends, & make use of wicked mediums to attain them; but it's certain Gods designs are most pure, and all his workings are so too. Though he permits, limits, orders and over-rules many unholy pers…

Whatever prosperity and success makes men forget God, and cast off the care of duty, is not sanctified to them. It is unsanctified prosperity which lulls men asleep into a deep oblivion of God, Deuteronomy 32. 13, 14, 15, 18. He made him ride on the high places of the earth, tha…