Deuteronomy 33

Question. How shall we know we aim at God's glory? Response. 1. When we prefer God's glory above all other things; above credit, estate, relations; when the glory of God comes in competition with them, we prefer his glory before them: if relations lie in our way to heaven, we mu…

2. Without mixture. Hell is a place of pure justice. In this life God in anger remembers mercy, he mixes compassion with suffering (Deuteronomy 33:25): Asher's shoe was of iron, but his foot was dipped in oil. Affliction is the iron shoe, but mercy is mixed with it; here is the…

Joseph was in prison, there was the dark side of the cloud, but God was with Joseph, there was the light side of the cloud. Asher's shoes were of brass, but his feet were dipped in oil (Deuteronomy 33:24). So affliction is the shoe of brass that pinches; ay, but there is mercy m…

7. There is kindness in affliction, in that (if we belong to God) it is all the hell we shall have; some have two hells, they suffer in their body and conscience, here is one hell, and another hell is to come, unquenchable fire; Judas had two hells, but a child of God has but on…

But when he came to Egypt, he had a calling immediately from God to do as he did; and for confirmation hereof he had God's promise of assistance in working strange miracles: and when he carried the people out of Egypt, he did it by commandment from a King that was higher than Ph…

If God be in the midst of Sion, he will be both defensive and offensive. He is both a Shield and a Sword, Deut 33. 29. Happy art thou O Israel, who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! God is a golden shie…

2. A Martyr dying for the truth of Christ may have a natural and conditional desire and inclination to live, though his living be contrary to the Lord's revealed will, commanding him to seal the Gospel with his blood, and to confess Christ before men. 3. If the brother, son, dau…

Use 2. Again nothing more lessens Christ than the heightening of the world in the hearts of men; Haman had the scum of the pleasures of 127 kingdoms, yet there was a bone wrong in his foot, anger and malice to see Mordecai is a hell to him; it's a sweeter burden to bear the fire…

Christ gave himself a ransom for all capable of a ransom; Arminians say that the finally obdurate, those that sin against the Holy Ghost, and infants of heathens, or any dying infants, cannot be ransomed by Christ. (Exodus 32:26) "All the sons of Levi came to Moses" — not all wi…

As if he should say, Up until now the Lord has chosen you for his heritage only: but hereafter he will endow you with more excellent gifts, for he will make you Priests. Now however all the people were a kingdom of Priests (Exodus 19:6), yet we know that the Tribe of Levi only e…

Without entering into that inquiry, which would occupy more space than we could easily spare, we have thought it due to our Author to hint, that the two passages which he quotes, and which at first sight appear to have no bearing on his argument, contain the very word in questio…

You, are too dear to him to be trusted in any hand but his own. Deuteronomy 33:3 All his saints are in your hand. Third Corollary.

Deuteronomy 33:12 — And of Benjamin, he said, The beloved of the Lord shall dwell in safety, by him: and the Lord shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders. Oh! what a dismal sight it is, to see an old man with his hoary head grown grey in sin, a…

All the people saw the thundrings and the lightnings, and the voice of the trumpet, and the Mountain smoaking; as the apostle also describes it, Hebrews 12:18. In this manner came forth from the Lord that fiery law, Deuteronomy 33:2. So that all who were concerned in it, did exc…

How blessed is this people who are redeemed from among men, and are the first fruits unto God, and to the Lamb; who have God in all ages for their protection and help! Deuteronomy 33:29. "Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of…

Further, it is revealed what kind of a prophet he should be, a prophet like Moses, who was the head and leader of all the people, and who, under God, had been their redeemer, to bring them out of the house of bondage, was as it were their shepherd by whom God led them through th…

The Lord has set apart him that is godly for himself, and the Lord knows who are his (2 Timothy 2:19). It is a special act of grace, to be enclosed by God out of the waste howling wilderness of the world (Deuteronomy 33:16). This God did intentionally, in the decree before the w…

When the dayspring takes hold of the ends of the earth, it is said to be turned as clay to the seal (Job 38:12-14). Meekness does in like manner dispose the soul to admit the rays of divine light; which before it rebelled against, it opens the heart, as Lydia's was opened; and s…

The virgin daughter of Zion has despised them, and laughed them to scorn, the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at them (Isaiah 37:22); and has therefore put them to shame, because God has despised them, as it is said (Psalm 53:5). He that sits in the heavens enjoying hi…

Paul found his spirit wrought upon, and refreshed, so that the Text says, when Timotheus was come, Paul was pressed in spirit. Fifthly, it is good being with Gods servants, though it be in suffering affliction, because God takes so much delight in them; if God takes delight in b…

Or, so entirely to love Christ above all, as our love of parents in comparison thereof to be a hatred. Thus Levi said to his father and mother, I have not seen him: for they observed the word, and kept the covenant of Christ (Deuteronomy 33:9). This then is our duty, that we suf…

We had need pray to God to be kept from all ways and counsels that are contrary to God's word. The Scripture speaks (Deuteronomy 33:29) of counterfeit submissions to higher powers: Your enemies shall be found liars to you, you shall tread upon their high places — the meaning is,…

But has a child of God nothing to answer to a wicked man before salvation comes? Answer: Yes, a child of God could answer them of the principles of faith: but they must have instances of sense, he could say that his God is in Heaven, and does whatever pleases him, that he is the…

He will be an apostate at last, the scab of hypocrisy usually breaks out in the plague sore of apostasy; conversion ground is standing ground, it is terra firma, but a graceless profession of religion is slippery ground, and falling ground, Julian the Apostate was first Julian t…

So [reconstructed: our] Savior to the young man: There is one thing wanting, go and sell all that you have (Mark 10:21). Admits no case of exception, whatever difficulty or danger may be presented or can be conceived in the compass of a man's apprehension; indeed there cannot be…

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My grace is sufficient for you (2 Corinthians 12:9). Underneath are the everlasting arms (Deuteronomy 33:27); if Christ puts the yoke of persecution upon us, he will put his arms under us. The Lord Jesus will not only crown us when we conquer, but he will enable us to conquer.

For seeing there is no name under heaven by which men may be saved but by the name of Jesus (Acts 4:12; John 14:6), there is no other warrant for praying for such than that God would send them the gospel. And since Christ prayed for infants and blessed them — which is a praying…

(2.) Christ the Lord is the Supreme and Sovereign Lord of blessing and cursing: for in him all the nations of the earth, and with them, young ones a considerable part of the covenanted nations, must be blessed. (3.) If Isaac blessed Jacob, and he must be blessed (Genesis [recons…

This fire placed itself in a bush, where it burned, but the bush was not consumed. And although the continuance of the fire in the bush was but for a short season, a present appearance; yet thence was God said to dwell in the bush: "the good will of him that dwelt in the bush" (…

And may not this tempt all to become godly? Deuteronomy 33:29. Happy are you, O Israel; a people saved by the Lord. 3. To endeavor after godliness, is most rational.

So she put a gold angel in his hand; and he made her a low obeisance, and said, “Let your garments be always white; and let your head want no ointment.” (Ecclesiastes 9:8) Let Mercy live and not die, and let not her works be few. (Deuteronomy 33:6) And to the boys he said, Do yo…

God has already put that honor upon the other continent, that Christ was born there literally, and there made the purchase of redemption: so, as providence observes a kind of equal distribution of things, it is not unlikely that the great spiritual birth of Christ, and the most…