Deuteronomy 7

God does sometimes accept of willingness without the work, but never the work without willingness. 3. God's covenant people are a consecrated people, they have holiness to the Lord written upon them; [reconstructed: casta placent superis] — (Deuteronomy 7:6): You are a holy peop…

Resp. God sees all the sins of men, but is no more defiled with them, than the sun is defiled with the vapours that arise out of the earth: God sees sin not as a patron to approve it, but as a judge to punish it. Use 1. Is God so infinitely holy, then see how unlike to God sin i…

Indeed, but who shall be judge of their love? God says, they hate him: they give religious adoration to a creature: these hate God, and God hates them: and they shall never live with God, whom he hates: he will never lay such vipers in his bosom: heaven is kept as paradise, with…

Answer. In man's reason it may seem so indeed: yet it could not be a cruel part, because they did no more than that which God commanded them. For, it was God's ordinance, that the Canaanites should be rooted out, and that the Israelites should show no compassion on them, Deutero…

Yes, he frequently declares, that he took them into Covenant, not only without respect to any thing of good in them, but although they were evil and stubborn. See (Deuteronomy 7:7, 8); Chapter 9. 4, 5. 2. It is contrary to the nature, ends and express properties of this Covenant.

This seems a plain granting of the Synod's saying, and of their proof of it. Whereas the Synod said, That the parents in question are keepers of the covenant, because they are not forsakers, and rejecters of the God, and covenant of their fathers; and alleged for this (Deuterono…

In the next place, how aptly these blessings are suited among themselves; first mercy, then peace, and then love; mercy does not differ much from that which is called grace in Paul's Epistles, only grace does more respect the bounty of God, as mercy does our want and need: by me…

For among the other crimes which the Spirit of God has branded the Romans with, this is one, that they were haters of God (Romans 1:3). And God says he will repay them that hate him to their face (Deuteronomy 7:10). And if the experience of former ages has left this doubtful, I…

1. Commands. Thus shall you deal with them, you shall destroy their altars, break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire (Deuteronomy 7:5), and again verse 25, the graven images of their gods, shall you burn with fire, you shall not…

And indeed that deliverance was an earnest of their perpetual security, by special providence in any succeeding trouble. And God often gives them a particular charge to remember that deliverance, with a practical remembrance to still their fear, and support their faith (Deuteron…

And again, the word signifies saw-dust that comes from timber that is sawn, and so it shall be broken in pieces: look as the calf in the wilderness was broken even to dust, to powder, and Moses made the people drink of it; so God will serve this calf. And then further observe: i…

He took the stone he had placed under his head, and set it up as a pillar; the Latin Vulgate renders it "in titulum," and the Greeks render it as a stele. The Hebrew word translated "he set up" is the same as the word for "statue," as we noted earlier; the same term is used in t…

IV. Whoever he was, no one can doubt that he gave a notable specimen of defection from the principles of evangelical theology. Now from this impious mixture — which was the source and origin of the ecclesiastical defection that occurred first after the entrance of sin (Genesis 6…

1. The men chosen and drawn, are by head designed. Jacob, not Esau, before the children had done good or evil; though Esau be elder, Isaac must be the Son of the promise: father and mother were free grace, rather [illegible] of Abraham and Sarah, now [reconstructed: past] nature…

The point being a matter of sense, and evident by natural light, needs not to be proved so much as improved. 1. Scripture represents him as such (Daniel 9:4): he is called the great and dreadful God, so (Deuteronomy 7:21): a mighty God and terrible, and (Nahum 1:5): a great and…

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…

This authority shows itself, specially in two things: in the marriage, and in the calling of the child. In the marriage of the child, the parent is the principal agent, and the disposer thereof (Deuteronomy 7:3; Exodus 34:16; 1 Corinthians 7:38). Where observe, that the commandm…

Now these were the Jews' near neighbors, and hated them deadly: these were the remainder of the nations which the Israelites had spared, although the Lord had expressly commanded them to be wholly rooted out. The people's infidelity was the cause why the Lord suffered this remna…

But I expound it otherwise, and refer it to the election of the people, who were taken from the midst of other nations, much more excellent than they: so as there is a comparison here between the Jews and other nations. Which Moses also shows when he says: That they were not cho…

and again, "who keeps covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations," (Deuteronomy 7:9) By these words, he not only declares, that he will always be like himself, but expresses the favor which he continues to manifest towards his…

When Paul says, that the Jews under the law were nigh to God, (Ephesians 2:17,) and that a deadly enmity (Ephesians 2:15) subsisted between him and the Gentiles, he means only that, by shadows and figures, God then gave to the people whom he had adopted the tokens of his presenc…

And those who know any thing of the Nature of Faith, or of the Love of God, any thing of Entercourse or Communion with him by Jesus Christ, any thing of Thankefulness, Obedience or Holiness, will not be easily perswaded, but that Gods Electing Love and Grace, is a mighty constra…

This is still the close of all gracious issues of providence, God has done all according as he promised (Joshua 22:4; 2 Samuel 7:21). He brought out his people of old, with a mighty hand, with temptations, signs and wonders, and a stretched out arm, and all, because he would kee…

To be love, full of love, to be the especial spring of all fruits of love, is peculiar to him as the Father. And from love it is that he makes the revelation of his will whereof we speak (Deuteronomy 7:8; c. 33.3; Psalm 147:19, 20; 2 Corinthians 5:18, 19). It was out of infinite…

24. That we covet not, or turn to our use, any things, wherewith Idols have been adorned (Deuteronomy 27:25). 25. That we make no profit of any thing that belongs to false worship (Deuteronomy 7:26). 26. That no City seduced to Idolatry and destroyed, be ever built again (Deuter…

And this the most take to be total and final, the persons that fall under it being left to the judgement of God without hope of reconciliation to the Church. Hence it is called in the Targum (Numbers 21:25; Deuteronomy 7:27) the curse, the execration of God; and by the Talmudist…

To this head also I refer. That sovereignty which has place in choosing and calling nations, as Israel because he freely loves (Deuteronomy 7:7), Israel, and their seed, not other nations (Deuteronomy 10:7), he says, preach to Macedonia, not to Bithynia, and though afterward the…

His love arose only and wholly from himself: in the parties loved, there was nothing but matter of hatred before they were loved. Moses thus says of the love of God to Israel, The Lord did not set his love upon you because you were more in number, but because the Lord loved you…

2. God has given express laws concerning this point. To omit that general moral law, Honor your father and your mother (which, as it is the ground of all other duties pertaining to children, so of this also) the authority and charge which God by his law (Deuteronomy 7:3) has lai…

The rules that God has set men to live by are universally just, and there is a universal obligation upon all men to obey them, but as they are particularly addressed to his own people in his word, they are out of question particularly bound to yield obedience, and have many pecu…

But it was because the ordinance and duty was of God, the failing was only in the manner of preparation to it (2 Chronicles 30:18, 19, 20). But if Micah set up an invention of his own in his house, though he may promise himself a blessing in some orderly circumstance of it, (as…

As God with Amalek (Exodus 17, last verse), he commanded it to be written [reconstructed: as] a memorial in a book, for God has sworn he will have war with [reconstructed: Amalek] forever, and put out his name from under Heaven; this hatred as in deadly feuds gives no quarter, t…

2. Vain. False, because it crosses that liberty which [illegible] the Lord challenges and uses in the dispensation of [illegible] means of salvation, without any respect to the [illegible] use of the gifts of nature; the Lord chose a [reconstructed: people] to himself of the wea…

If you say that the Ephesians were in Covenant, but not their seed, and so they were not strangers, I answer that the Apostle does not set out their cursed estate merely because they were without any Covenant, but because they were strangers to that Covenant of promise which the…

And Samuel (1 Samuel 12:22), Joshua (Joshua 24:22-25), and Mary (Luke 1:55), and Zechariah (Luke 1:70, 72, 73) refer to the Covenant made with Abraham. And (Deuteronomy 6) the Covenant at Horeb, the Lord made with Abraham to give Canaan to his seed (Deuteronomy 6:10; Deuteronomy…

It must be a narrow blessing of covenanted Egypt, Assyria, Israel, if it be a blessing of these come to age, 2. professing the faith, 3. and baptized. How can the Lord say, blessed be Egypt, and though the whole seed be visibly in covenant, old and young, yet it follows not that…

Though this be spoken to all the covenanted people of God, yet are infants cast out of the bosom of a Covenant Father and God? (5.) Infants are debarred from Covenant-calling and gathering in under the wings of Christ: contrary to Matthew 28:19-20, Matthew 23:37, Psalm 147:19-20…

Hence there is no ground at all, nor truth in what Arminians say, that the covenant of Grace is made with all and every one of mankind, as was the covenant of Works. For this must be true, that in Paradise, the covenant of Grace was made with Adam, and all his seed: but a covena…

Q. 1. If multitudes and people externally covenanted with God, though not internally, whom the Lord calls his people and chosen by him (Deuteronomy 7:6, Deuteronomy 10:15), be the rightly constituted and visible church, as Mr. Thomas Hooker grants, then kingdoms must be his visi…

But 2. Justification by grace does not, in iisdem apicibus, in the same points, have the same adversaries. 1. Moses and the Prophets contend most with ceremonial hypocrites, who sought righteousness much in ceremonies, washings, sacrifices, new moons, and also their own inherent…

As: first, "I will engrave my Law in their heart"; second, "I will be their God"; third, "They shall be my people" — to wit, effectually as gifted with a new heart, and such as shall never be cast off, but shall persevere to the end (verses 35-37; Jeremiah 32:40). Otherwise, by…

And there may be running and no sending of God to Nations (Jeremiah 23:21), and (Psalm 147:19-20) when he denies, he declared his judgments and his statutes to any Nation, by sent Prophets, as he did to Jacob, if the Gospel then was of itself preachable to all Nations, Prophets…

So it was in the day of Midian, the Lord sent a panic terror among the Midianites, which was a sign of the day of tumult in the host of Midian. This some take to be meant by the Hornet (though I believe that was literally fulfilled) spoken of (Deuteronomy 7:20). Augustine, and s…

But suppose he should be so understood; it is most uncertain that by the buying of these false teachers is meant his purchasing of them with the ransom of his blood. The word translated 'buying' in the Old Testament signifies any deliverance, as Deuteronomy 7:8, 15:15, Jeremiah…

The Greek word signifies the putrid matter of ulcers. Sin is called [illegible], an abomination,(Deuteronomy 7:25). Nay, in the plural, abominations, (Deuteronomy 20:18).

This is their glory or they have none; is it in their number, that they are great, many, and populous? God thinks not so, nor did he when he gave an account of his thoughts of his People of old (Deuteronomy 7:7): The Lord did not set his love upon you nor chose you, because you…

Hereupon they reason that we are not justified by faith alone. For thus says the Lord: And it shall be, if you shall hear these commandments and judgments, and shall keep them and do them, the Lord also shall keep with you his covenant and mercy which he has sworn to your father…

But to what end this tends, it is noted in diverse places in the law. For when the Lord does vouchsafe to deal thus mercifully with us, to call us into the company of his people, he chooses us (says Moses) that we should be a peculiar people to himself, a holy people, and should…

2. The Catholic covenant of grace made with the great sister the church universal, was first laid down in pawn in their hand; they put their hand first to the contract, in subscribing the marriage contract (Jeremiah 2:3). Israel was holy to the Lord, and the first fruits of his…

No, were they more precious and honorable actually before God from eternity, than the rest of the nations? No, the contrary is evident (Ezekiel 16:3; Deuteronomy 7:7-8; Psalms 147:19-20; Deuteronomy 26:5). Certainly, if faith or conversion to God (a special part of which is fait…