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…

At present it is enough to represent the testimonies that he is one, only one. And because we have no difference with our adversaries distinctly about this matter, I shall only name some few of them, (Deuteronomy 6:4) Hear O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord. A most pregnant…

Q. 1. What does God require of us in our dependance on him, that he may be glorified by us, and we accepted with him? Answ. That we (a) worship him (b) in and by the ways of his own appointment. (a) Matthew 4:10. Revelation 14:7. Deuteronomy 6:13. chap. 10:20. (b) Leviticus 10:1…

Reverence then to the authority of God appointing his worship, is a principal means of sanctifying the name of God therein. This was the solemn sanction of all his institutions of old (Deuteronomy 6:4–5, 6, 7): Hear O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord, and you shall love the…

This appurtenance of them to the Ark, the Apostle expresseth by the Preposition [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩] from the Hebrew [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩] now this preposition is so frequently used in the Scripture to signify, adhesion, conjunction, approximation, appurtenance of one t…

And this was twofold, (1) That which was instituted by God himself; and (2) that which the People had superadded in the way of practice. The first of these is, as in other places, so particularly expressed (Deuteronomy 6:6, 7, 8, 9). And these words which I command you this day…

Now if men had not had a sense and understanding of the nature, lawfulness, and obligation from the light of nature of an oath, this would have been of no use nor signification to them. It is true that God did expressly institute the rite and use of swearing in judgment among hi…

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…

The Scripture exhorts to do things that intend this knowledge. In (Deuteronomy 4:1) and (Deuteronomy 6) the Israelites were exhorted to hear and know the statutes of the Lord, that they might do them; to speak of God's word and works, which acts their knowledge, puts them in rem…

Curse or punishment, which is the first, which punishes the least offence with the wrath of God, to be felt for ever in soul and body; called death (Galatians 3:10; Romans 6:23; Romans 5:12-13; Deuteronomy 27:26; Genesis 2:17). Blessing, or reward, which is the second, giving to…

Instruction out of the scripture, is by the daily reading of the same with them, both to make them acquainted with the course of them, so that they may mark the same for their better profiting, by the allegations of the public ministry, also to refer those things which are plain…

And thus much of those which the Lord in mercy and wisdom receives of us. Now follows those means which he has given us, and they are attributed to the Lord himself directly, as his titles, to be used, either simply (Romans 9:5; 1 Timothy 1:17), in an oath (Deuteronomy 6:13; Jer…

Whereto appertained the ceremony of lifting up their hands to the Lord, which called them to mind with whom they had in this cause to deal (Genesis 14:22). So sometimes they added, or put in stead of the creatures of life, heaven, earth, afflictions, or sufferings, not to give t…

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…

Vocatur autem Angelus quia mundum gubernat. Scriptum est enim Deuteronomy 6:21. eduxit vos Jehovah ex Aegypto; & alibi Numbers 20:6. misit Angelum suum & eduxit vos ex Aegypto. Praeterea scriptum est Isaiah 63:9. & Angelus facici ejus salvos fecit ipsos.

And it shall be for a sign upon your hand, and as a memorial between your eyes, that the Lord's law may be in your mouth: ver. 16. and it shall be for a token upon your hand, and as frontlets between your eyes. Whereunto may be added Deuteronomy 6:6, 7, 8, 9. And these words whi…

1. Faith, and acknowledgment of God's divine Essence and Existence (Exodus 20:2). 2. Faith of the Unity of God (Deuteronomy 6:4; chapter 32:39). 3. Love of God (Deuteronomy 6:5; chapter 10:12).

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…

For it is the proper work of the Spirit to make us holy, and he bears the name of the Holy Ghost, and of the spirit of sanctification upon that reason; and therefore where self is the man's god, what room is left to holiness, and to the influences of grace? And where the love of…

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…