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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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).

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…

Obj. 2. To ascribe God's not loving of men to God's disposition, heart, will, and pleasure, and not to our defects, is blasphemy. Ans. The Lord ascribes his having mercy, and his hardening to his own free will (Romans 9:17; Exodus 33:19), and his love is as free as his mercy, an…

Objection 5. The covenant is God's love to man, to take him to himself, and that before the children do good or ill, and to him that works is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. Answer. The covenant is a fruit and effect of God's love, but it is not formally God's lov…

So then justice and fidelity are the reasons of fulfilling promises, but God's love and mercy is the only reason of making promises. The Lord did not set his love upon you nor choose you (says Moses to Israel) because you were more in number than any people, but because the Lord…