Deuteronomy 9

All covenants were of old solemnly written in tables of brass or stone, where they might be faithfully preserved for the use of the parties concerned. So the Old Covenant as to the principal fundamental part of it, was engraven in tables of stone, which were kept in the Ark (Exo…

The Land of Canaan was given to the posterity of Abraham by promise. And therefore does God so often mind them of the freedom of it, that it was an act of mere love and sovereign grace, which in themselves they were so far from deserving as that they were altogether unworthy of…

We promise much when we want deliverance, and when we have it, God is neglected; but he will not put it up so, by sad and disastrous accidents he puts us in mind of our old promises. 2. When you kiss your own hand, bless your dragge, ascribe it to your merit and power (Habakkuk…

God does not reprove them there for making Covenant, for then he were contrary to himself, who elsewhere called them to do it (Exodus 29; Deuteronomy 29), and commended them for it (Psalm 50:5), yes and in that very place of Ezekiel 16 acknowledges a Covenant between him and the…

XII. 2. "That whatever spiritual privileges either they themselves or their forebears obtained, and moreover all the singular benefits of which they had become partakers, had come to them from God's pure grace alone, without any regard for their works or services." The passage f…

Life — that is, the life of justification, and of sanctification, consolation and comfort to his soul notwithstanding his sin; the promise is evident, he shall prevail with God, to bestow life upon his brother. This you shall see evident from Scripture (Deuteronomy 9:25-26): I f…

They make many turnings to escape God's judgment; but the Prophet affirms, that he is always good to those which honor him. And albeit Moses in this sense calls him a consuming fire (Deuteronomy 9:3), lest his majesty and power should be despised; yet whoever he be that shall dr…

Which Moses also shows when he says: That they were not chosen because they were more in number than any other people; for they were the fewest (Deuteronomy 7:7), but because the Lord loved them, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn to their fathers (Deuteronomy…

And it is very unreasonable, upon several accounts, to suppose that the apostle by their own righteousness, intends only their ceremonial righteousness. For when the apostle warns us against trusting in our own righteousness for justification, doubtless it is fair to interpret t…

First, Upon the sin of the people, from where he gave a double name to the place where they sinned, for a memorial to all generations; he called it Massah and Meribah; which words our Apostle renders by [in non-Latin alphabet] and [in non-Latin alphabet], chap. 3.9. Temptation,…

The preparation for the directions which God gave for the building of this Tabernacle is declared, Exodus 24. The body of the people having heard the Law, that is, the ten Words or Commandments, which was all they heard (Deuteronomy 9:10), (what God spake to them was written in…

And accordingly are those words to be interpreted where the cause of this Sacrifice is expressed (Leviticus 4:2): If a soul sin [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], by error, ignorance, imprudently against any of the commandments of the Lord, as it ought not to do, and shall do against…

But is this safe to ascribe the comfort and blessings that we have to our own obedience? Is it not expressly forbidden (Deuteronomy 9:4)? Say not in your heart, for my righteousness has the Lord brought me to possess the land.

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…

Kingdoms shake, Nations shake, yet let us not be dismayed, for the Lord will carry on his own good work and glorious designs, in the midst of these troubles. It is said (Deuteronomy 9:25) that the city should be built in troublous times: the Lord is carrying on the building of h…

How many contingencies did [illegible], his piercing eye run through, to foresee the crowning of Esther, for the deliverance of his people. In a word; known to God are all his works: now what can possibly be imagined to be more contingent, than the killing of a man by the fall o…

Now herein, I beseech your Lordship, that I may offer these two things. First, this is but the single testimony of one man, and by the law of God, and of the land, a man must not die, but under the testimony of two or three witnesses, in the Old Testament, Deuteronomy 9 and 15:…