Deuteronomy 6

Answ. There is but one, only the living and true God. That there is a God has been proved, and those that will not believe the verity of his essence, shall feel the severity of his wrath (Deuteronomy 6:4). Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is One Lord.

The Lord would have Moses make the Tabernacle [illegible], according to the pattern in the mount (Exodus 25:40); he must not leave out anything in the pattern, nor add to it; if God was so exact and careful about the place of his worship, how exact will he be about the manner of…

Quest. What is the sum of the Ten Commandments? Resp. The sum of the Ten Commandments, is to love the Lord our God, with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind, and our neighbor as ourselves (Deuteronomy 6:5): You shall love the Lord your…

Truth, for God spoke it; and goodness, for there is nothing the commandment enjoins but is for our good: O then let this command our love. 6. If God spoke all these words, then teach your children the law of God (Deuteronomy 6:7). These words which I command you this day shall b…

Rule 1. The commands and prohibitions of the moral law reach the heart. 1. The commands of the moral law reach the heart: the commandments require not only outward actions, but inward affections: they require not only the outward act of obedience, but the inward affection of lov…

For instance, First, When we expound those texts literally, which are meant figuratively. Thus the Pharisees were guilty, when God said in the Law, "You shall bind the commandments for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes" (Deuteronomy 6:8). Th…

It is said, not only Christ was with God before the beginning, but he was God (John 1:1), and (1 Timothy 3:16), God manifest in the flesh. The title of Lord so often given to Christ in the New Testament does answer to the title of Jehovah in the Old Testament (Deuteronomy 6:5; M…

Even a good Hezekiah could not hide a vainglorious temper under this temptation. 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 giv…

2. It does with advantage give us other instructions. 1. Christ cuts the throat of the temptation, by quoting a passage of Scripture out of Deuteronomy 6:16. You shall not tempt the Lord your God, as you tempted him in Massah.

The church could not have done without it. 4. The places out of which it is cited are two: (Deuteronomy 6:13): You shalt fear the Lord your God, and serve him, and swear by his name. And again (Deuteronomy 10:20): You shalt fear the Lord your God, and serve him, and to him shalt…

I answer, that the Apostles, and Christ in citing places of the Old Testament, apply them, and expound them, and hereupon sometimes add words without adding to the sense. Moses says, Him shall you serve (Deuteronomy 6:16). Christ alleging the same words, says, Him only shall you…

This triall is a worke of God whereby he discouers to vs, and to the world, either the grace or the corruption of our hearts. Thus God tried Abraham, Hebr. 11. 17. the Israelites, Deut 6:1. and Ezechias, 2. Chron. 32. 31. and Paulin this place.

We must in like manner observe, that the things which appertain to God's service, ought not to be applied to profane uses: it is the profanation of an oath then, to swear by any other thing than by the Lord. For it is written, You shall swear by my name (Deuteronomy 6:13). Do we…

We use to say in our common proverb, that one has that upon his fingers ends, which is seriously imprinted in his memory. And when Moses commands a daily meditation in God's law, he says, "You shall bind them upon your hands" (Deuteronomy 6:8), that so they might always have God…

He amplifies the crime of which he spoke before, that the people should not flatter themselves in their inventions. Now it is very likely that Isaiah alludes to Moses' words, wherein the Lord commanded that they should always have the Law before them: that they should fix it upo…

And now proceeds with the same kind of defense as before, employing Scripture as a shield, not of reeds, but of brass. He quotes a passage from the law, that God alone is to be adored and worshipped, (Deuteronomy 6:13; 10:20.) From the application of that passage, and from the c…

But as the law had been corrupted by false expositions, and turned to a profane meaning, Christ vindicates it against such corruptions, and points out its true meaning, from which the Jews had departed. That the doctrine of the law not only commences, but brings to perfection, a…

The reasons which he brings forward tend rather to the opposite view, that we swear by the name of God even when we name the heaven, and the earth: because there is no part of the world on which God has not engraved the marks of his glory. But this statement appears not to agree…

"An abridgment or summary of the Law." which is also found in the writings of Moses, (Deuteronomy 6:5.) For, though it is divided into two tables, the first of which relates to the worship of God, and the second to charity, Moses properly and wisely draws up this summary,

For why were their fringes made broader, and their phylacteries more magnificent, than what was customary, except for idle display? The Lord had commanded the Jews to wear, both on their forehead and on their raiment, some remarkable passages selected out of the Law, (Deuteronom…

They ought to profess that all their hearts and souls are in these engagements to be the Lord's, and forever to serve him; 2 Chronicles 15:12-14. God's people's swearing to God, and swearing by his name, or to his name, as it might be rendered, (by which seems to be signified th…

Prov. 36. 6. Revel. 22. 18. (2) It is so formally; that is, we are not to do only what is commanded, all that is commanded, and nothing else, but whatever we do we are to do it because it is commanded, or it is no part of our Obedience or Holiness, Deut. 6. 24, 25. Chap. 29. 19.

For to what purpose do we desire them before we have them, rejoice in them when we have them, value them so highly, sympathize with them so tenderly, grieve for their death so excessively; if in the mean time no care be taken what shall become of them to Eternity? (2.) How God h…

Fearing God is worshipping God; as you may see clearly by two texts of Scripture compared together. In the fourth chapter of Matthew, verse 10, Christ says to the Devil, It is written you shall worship the Lord your God, and him only you shall serve; compare this with (Deuterono…

Secondly, a man must sweareby him that is greater then himselfe, and therefore God sware by himselfe because there was no greater to sweare by; where it seems, the Holy Spirit takes it for graunted, that there is no lawfull swearing by the creatures; because they are not greater…

Surely, hereby he declares himself to be the true doctor of his Church: for hauing a waightie point of doctrine in hand, which the nature of man in vnwilling to receive and practise, he dos beside the propounding and confirming of it, thus vrge it by peecemeale, that hereby it m…

Here then behold, how the heads of families preserued Gods word, and true religion, in the beginning of the world; namely, by teaching it to their posteritie: and from them we may learne, what is the duty, and ought to bee the practise of every gouernour of a family at this day:…

Now, Christ is said, and that in the past tense, to have had this vineyard, which shows his interest and ownership therein, and title thereto, and that by an eternal right, and a far other kind of title than he has to the rest of the world beside: Now this right of Christ's (in…

First, the law of God is infinitely spiritual, and obliges us not only to the performance of the external duties of obedience; but requires also the absolute perfection of the inward dispositions; not only that our love of God be sincere and cordial; but that it must be intense…

For the first, I assert, that an oath is so far from being always sinful; that it is sometimes a duty, indeed, an act of religion, and part of the service and worship of God; and therefore not only lawful but necessary. This we find (Deuteronomy 6:13): You shall fear the Lord yo…

This not only seems to be in it self most consonant to Reason, and is a Duty generally allowed in New-England, but is evidently a great Institution of the Word of God, appointed as a very important Part of that public Religion by which God's People should give Honour to his Name…

A gracious soul earnestly desires a free condition in the world, he is sensible he has much work to do, a race to run, and is loath to be clogged or have his foot in the snare of the cares or pleasures of this life. He knows that fullness exposes to wantonness and irreligion (De…

Now to convince such careless Parents of the heinousness of their sin, let these four Queries be solemnly considered. Whether this be a sufficient discharge of that great duty which God has laid upon Christian Parents, in reference to their families? That God has charged them wi…

Arg. 2. Swearing is a part of the Worship of [〈◊〉], and therefore prophane swearing can be no less than the profanation of his worship, and robbing[••] him of all the glory he has thereby, Deuteronomy 6:13.[•]You shalt fear the Lord your God, and serve him, and shalt swear by hi…

4. To the set times of catechizing children, let other occasions of teaching them piety be added: as at table, by resembling the spiritual food of their souls to that bodily food whereby their bodies are nourished: when they are walking abroad, by showing them the stars, how the…

The respect which masters owe to God, themselves, their servants, the Church, and commonwealth where they live, requires as much. 1. God has commanded as much (Deuteronomy 6:7) as this charge implies, You shall talk of my laws when you sit in your house: and God has manifested h…

and the justifying Righteousness according to this Law, was their Obedience to the Precepts and Ordinances of it. Deuteronomy 6:25. And it shall be our Righteousness if we observe to do all these Commandments before the Lord our God, as he has commanded us.

You that desire to live long, live in the Fear of God. Deuteronomy 6:24. The Lord commanded us to fear the Lord our God,that he might preserve us alive.

1. In our own families, in training up children and servants in the way of the Lord, and inculcating the doctrine of God upon them. This is a commanded duty, as you may see (Deuteronomy 6:6-7): And these words which I command you this day, shall be in your heart. What then? — an…

3. In conferring of it often. What a man delights in, he will be talking of; so should you at home, abroad (Deuteronomy 6:7): You shall be talking of them when you sit in your house, and as you walk by the way, seasoning your journey. He that would have God to be in his journey,…

And this is to believe. So for love (Deuteronomy 6:5): You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. Every faculty must express love to God.

This is the main thing of Christianity, when there is not only a naked assent, but when we embrace Christ with the heart, and there is a full and free consent to take him to all the uses for which God has appointed him. So for love, Deuteronomy 6:5: You shall love the Lord your…

4. It is a dishonor to God to do his work negligently: "Cursed be the deceiver which has in his flock a male, and vows and sacrifices to the Lord a corrupt thing, for I am a great King," says the Lord (Malachi 1:14) — implying that it is a lessening of his Majesty; it is a sign…

Oh no, all God's ways are for our good. (Deuteronomy 6:24): The Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God for our good always. And the duties that he requires of us are honorable, and comfortable; we never walk more at large, than when we have a consci…

1. His commands are not grievous, Matthew 11:30. My yoke is easy and my burden is light; 1 John 5:3. His commandments are not grievous; he prescribes and commands nothing but for our good. Deuteronomy 6:24. And the Lord commanded us to do all the statutes, to fear the Lord our G…

3. He enjoins nothing but what is good (Deuteronomy 5:29): Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever. Deuteronomy 6:24: And the Lord commanded us to do a…

My Son, give me your heart (Proverbs 23:26). You shall love the Lord your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your might (Deuteronomy 6:5). Look into the Scripture, and see what that is upon which your only stands, and you shall find that God has fixed it upon…

Answer 1: Is the fulfilling of God's command taking his name in vain? Deuteronomy 6:6-7: These words which I command you this day, you shall teach them diligently to your children. Proverbs 22:6: Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart fro…

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…

Egypt shall be my people, except their first, Infants, and except their aged and their non-Saints. (5.) Infants in the former Covenant had right by birth to the means of salvation, to be taught and Catechized in the Law of the Lord, because born of Covenanting Parents within the…