Exodus 24

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…

That was, the people of Israel solemnly taken into a Church relation with him by covenant, wherein they took upon themselves to observe all the laws, and ordinances, and institutions of his worship (Exodus 20:19). "Speak you with us, and we will hear" (Exodus 24:3). "And Moses c…

Quest. 20. By what means do persons so called become a Church of Christ? Answ. They are constituted a Church, and interested in the rights, power, and priviledges of a Gospel-Church, by the will, promise, authority, and law of Jesus Christ, upon their own voluntary consent and e…

It is here plainly comprehensive of all that he has denied to the law, priesthood, and sacrifices of the Old Testament, with the whole church-state of the Hebrews under it, and the effects of their ordinances and services. As, (1.) A complete dedication to God, in opposition to…

4. These things being observed, we may consider that the Scripture does plainly and expresly make mention of two Testaments or Covenants, and distinguish between them in such a way, as what is spoken can hardly be accommodated to a twofold administration of the same Covenant. Th…

The Covenant intended it is none other but that made at Sinai, in the third month after the coming of the People out of Egypt (Exodus 19:1), which Covenant in the nature, use and end of it, we have before described. And the Fathers were those of that Generation, those who came o…

The end represented in and by them, was to make atonement for sin, that the anger of God being pacified, they might have peace with him. The covenant was then newly established between God and the Church, before any laws were given about these offerings and sacrifices (Exodus 24…

First to sanctify them, then to perfect them, was the design of Christ in offering of himself, which he purposed not for all men universally. So in the foundation of the church of Israel, they were first sanctified, and dedicated to God in, and by the sacrifices wherewith the Co…

In the exposition of this context we must do three things: (1) Consider the difficulties that are in it. (2) Declare the scope, design, and force of the argument contained in it. (3) Explain the particular passages of the whole. 1. Sundry difficulties there are in this context w…

The consideration hereof, the Apostle on set purpose fixed on, as the great concomitant, privilege or glory of the first Covenant whereof he treats; and whose consideration was excellently suited to his design. Immediately on the giving of the Law and making that Covenant in Hor…

And the especial nature of any church-state, does depend on the especial nature of those institutions, which is constitutive of the difference between the church-state of the Old Testament and that of the New. 3. Such a church-state was constituted and appointed under the Old Te…

Acceptation of God's offer upon God's terms, Job 5:27. Know you it for your good, put in for these hopes and take God to his word upon this confidence, make good your part of the stipulation in the Covenant, and he will not fail you, this application there must be in all, an ans…

It is enough for us that we find in the Jewish Church, some Elders joined with the Priests, and employed in things ecclesiastical. The Elders and Priests are joined together both in the New Testament, as (Matthew 26:59) the chief Priests and Elders; so in other places before cit…

For with very few exceptions — those whom they call and curse as Karaites — the religion of the whole nation has rested for many centuries upon this fiction. But since no mention is made anywhere in the sacred writings of this oral law; since students of God's law are nowhere re…

They gave themselves first to the Lord, and then to us by the will of God, when we have bestowed ourselves upon God, he is not wanting to receive us, to be his people. Now for further opening of this, it was said this covenant was made with God by way of sacrifice (Psalm 50:5,7)…

When Abraham went to worship in the mount, he left his servants below in the valley, lest they should obstruct his communion with God. When Moses was to go up to the Lord, though Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders went further than the people, yet the text says, they…

Sixthly, the law has Moses for the mediator (Deuteronomy 5:27), but Christ is the mediator of the new testament (Hebrews 8:6). Lastly, the law was dedicated by the blood of beasts (Exodus 24:5), and the new Testament, by the blood of Christ (Hebrews 9:12). Here then falls to the…

Life is promised, but it must be sought only in the death and resurrection of Christ. This too is the reason why God commanded of old, that the book of the law should be sprinkled with the blood of the sacrifice, (Exodus 24:8; Hebrews 9:19, 20.) It is also worthy of notice, that…

Let us therefore learn that, by the guidance of the Spirit, Christ withdrew from the crowd of men, in order that he might come forth as the highest teacher of the church, as the ambassador of God, — rather as sent from heaven, than as taken from some town, and from among the com…

22. That the whole increase of the land every seventh year be common to all (Exodus 23:10, 11). 23. That the seventh year be a year of rest to the whole land (Exodus 24:21; Leviticus 25:2). 24. That the year of the Jubilee be reckoned by the years of rest, or weeks of years (Lev…

These Moses and Aaron gathered together at their first coming into Egypt (Exodus 4:29). And these, as I said before, being the rulers of the first families, were probably in number seventy; from where afterwards was the constitution of seventy elders for rule (Exodus 24:1). Thir…

And after the second Veil, the Tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all, which had the Golden Censor, and the Ark of the Covenant, overlaid round about with Gold, wherein was the Golden Pot that had Manna, and Aarons Rod that budded, and the Tables of the Covenant: And over…

For the Priests are not comprised in any other member of the distribution before mentioned, particularly not in that wherein with any color they might be looked after, namely, the [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], v. 27, the people of the Land, that is, the common people, from whom t…

I desire then to know, from where it is that all the circumstances of the giving and teaching of the less necessary are so exactly recorded, but not one word is spoken of this Orall Law, either of Gods revealing of it to Moses, or of Moses teaching of it to Joshua or any others;…

It may be good for us sometimes to be in such a condition, and then that desertion that carries into it, is from the presence of God; we are now grown to that, that if every thing immediately surmount not our imagination, say some, God is gone from them, not because it is so, bu…

Wait awhile, and you shall be possessed of a kingdom. When Moses went up to receive God's commands, he stayed six days on the Mount, and on the seventh day, God called to him (Exodus 24:16). Though we wait long, and have not the thing waited for, yet let us continue doing our du…

So it was a human form in which Christ appeared to the seventy elders, of which we have an account. Exodus 24:9-11: "Then went up Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel." "And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet, as it were a p…

Was the ceremonial law dedicated by [reconstructed: blood]? Yes, the Apostle plainly asserts it from Exodus, Hebrews 9:18-19, Exodus 24:7-8. Moses took the book of the covenant, and read it in the audience of the people, and took the blood, and sprinkled it upon the people, and…

Now our answer to this demand of God, and to this interrogatory he puts to us in the covenant, it is sealed by us in baptism; and it is renewed in the Lord's Supper. Look as in the old sacrifices, they were all a renewing of the oath of allegiance to God, or confirming their pur…

For so Paul (Romans 10:5-7, etc.) expounds Moses (Deuteronomy 30:11-14). 4. The Covenant of Works taught nothing of the way of expiation of sin by blood typifying the Ransom of blood that Christ was to pay for our sins, as this Covenant all along had sacrifices and blood to conf…

Hence by way of excellency he calls it the Covenant, the Covenant of the Lord (Jeremiah 2[illegible]:9; Deuteronomy 4:23; Joshua 23:11); My Covenant, says the Lord (Genesis 17:7, 9, 10; Exodus 19:5; Psalm 50:16); His Covenant (Psalm 105:8); He remembered his Covenant forever (Ps…

This promise is not formally made to Christ, yet it is a special Covenant-promise (Jeremiah 31; Ezekiel 11; Hebrews 8); for there is no stony heart in Christ, yet the promise is laid down in him, and made to him, eminenter; for by the merit of his blood (for he sanctified the pe…

If you believe, you may be baptized: I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of the living God; if you believe there is no salvation but in Christ, whether you feel the comfort of it, yes or no, if you believe there it is to be had, you may be baptized, wait therefore upon every…

Such mistakes as these you ever and anon fall into, and I fear for want of being conversant in Holy Writ, which it seems your principles prompt you to a neglect of. Sir, the tables prepared by Moses were no less written with the finger of God than those were which he first prepa…