Exodus 21

In the Old Law, had a man killed another unawares, he might take sanctuary; but if he had killed him willingly, though he did fly to the sanctuary, the holiness of the place was not to defend him. (Exodus 21:14) If a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor to slay him with gui…

7. God no more wills all, and every man to be saved, and come to believe; so they will all, and every one believe; than he wills all and every one to be damned; so they believe not and refuse the Gospel: the one will is as universal as the other. 8. It is no justice, that the ra…

By his example we are taught to make satisfaction for all injuries and hurts done to others, and that to the utmost. He that steals, according to the quality of his theft, must restore either twofold, or fourfold (Exodus 22:7); he that maims a man must pay for his healing, and f…

This law is a necessary fence to the fifth commandment, and upholds the honor that is due to parents. Example 5. He that strikes a man so that he dies, shall die the death (Exodus 21:12). To this law there is no exception made, but one, and that is, when a man is killed unawares.

And this shows, that the children in respect of their bodies, are the goods of their parents. In this respect, the Jews were permitted to sell their children (Exodus 21:7). And so sacred a thing was the authority of the parent, that he which rebelliously despised the same, was p…

Againe, if all sinne committed voluntarily, and willingly, were simply inexpiable, euery mans case were damnable. And though the word [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], signifie willingly, as Aristotle takes it, Eth. l. 3. c. 2. yet sometime it signifis, spitefully, and malitiously, a…

So that to do a thing for nothing is to do a thing without wages, without price. And there is the same interpretation of the word in Exodus 21:11, where Moses, speaking of the maid who was taken into the family and was not married, says, "If he does not do these three to her, th…

And certainly it is but fit and meet that we should give them the best and the most obliging language, who have taught us to speak; and to please them with our words, who have instructed us how to form them. Indeed, that rude and boisterous language which many of the sons of Bel…

But here we must look to it, that we be employed about lawful things; otherwise, if we be doing that which is unjustifiable, which accidentally proves to be the death of another, this cannot be excused from murder; and I am sure God exacts the same punishment for it. And therefo…

If there is a curse for him that smites his neighbor secretly (Deuteronomy 27:24), then he is double cursed that kills him. If a man had [reconstructed: slain] another unawares, he might take sanctuary, and fly to the altar: but if he had done it willingly, the holiness of the p…

Here was his greatest humiliation and suffering, by which principally he made satisfaction to the justice of God for the sins of men. First, his life was sold by one of his own disciples for thirty pieces of silver, which was the price of the life of a servant, as you may see in…

4. They ought not to marry while the time of their covenant for service lasts, unless their master gives consent to that. The law of God sets forth the lawful marriages of servants thus: "If his master has given him a wife" — by which is implied that if a servant marries, it mus…

Answer. No, not without the free consent of the servants themselves: for marriages must be made with the free consent of the parties that are married. Objection. The law implies that a master has power to give his servant a wife, for it shows whose those children shall be that a…

He is like the Servant under the Law. Exodus 21:5. I love my Master, I will not go out free.

The law of God condemned pits for tame beasts. (Exodus 21:33-34) If a man open a pit, or dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or ass fall therein: the owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money to the owners of them. Though it was lawful for hunters to take wild beast…

Adam was, and so were we the children of God by creation, God was our Father, who made us, and woe to him that strives with (and fights against) his Maker (Isaiah 43:9); it is woeful sinning against God as a Maker; Oh how unnatural it is to sin against our parents! So heinous wa…

So it is with many a sluggish [illegible], he is content to perish rather than do anything to deliver himself, he blesses himself in his misery and so is a devoted slave to the Devil. As (Exodus 21:6), if when the servant had his liberty to go out free, he said plainly I love my…

(Matthew 5:38): Eye for eye, tooth for tooth. (Exodus 21:24, 23): You shall give life for life. Give that piece of money for you and me (Matthew 17).

Being justified , so the LXX. render the Hebrew particle ; without price, without merit, without cause; and sometimes it is used for without end, that is, what is done in vain; as is used by the apostle, Galatians 2:21. without price or reward, Genesis 29:15. Exodus 21:22. 2 kin…

For what can you more ascribe to chance, than when a broken bough falling from a tree kills a wayfaring man passing by it? But the Lord says far otherwise, who confesses that he has delivered him into the hand of the slayer (Exodus 21:13). Likewise, who does not leave the happen…

No, but before he began, he foreknew and foretold the end. Go (said he to Moses) and declare to him my will, but I will harden his heart, that he obey not (Exodus 21). So when he stirs up Ezekiel, he warns him beforehand that he sends him to a rebellious and stubborn people, to…

6th Commandment: You shall not kill. He breaks this commandment: who bears malice to another (1 John 3:15); who is given to hastiness (Matthew 5:22); who uses inward fretting and grudging (James 3:14); who is froward of nature, hard to please (Romans 1:31); who is full of rancor…