Exodus 31

2. There were bounds set that none might touch the mount (Exodus 19:12), which was to breed in the people reverence to the Law. 3. God wrote the Law with his own finger (Exodus 31:18), which was such an honor put upon the Moral Law, as we read of no other writing. God did by som…

No, that work which had a reference to a religious use, might not be done on the Sabbath, as the hewing of stones for the building of the sanctuary. Bezaleel, who was to cut the stones, and carve the timber out for the sanctuary, yet he must forbear it on the Sabbath (Exodus 31:…

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…

On the same account is it called the Ark of the Covenant, namely because of what was contained in it, or the Tables of the Covenant, which as I have showed elsewhere were usually called the Covenant itself. And so they are called the Tables of Testimony (Exodus 31:18), that is,…

2. If a parent in Israel was for his sin cut off from his people, were the children that he left behind him therefore excluded from the Commonwealth of Israel? To be sure, in crimes capitally punished (of which cutting off from their people is sometimes plainly meant, Exodus 31:…

But rather I understand it of his sight of the thing when it is accomplished; when he shall see his whole family together, met in one congregation: now (says he) I count my blood well bestowed, my bitter agony well recompensed, these are my crown and my rejoicing. Look as the fi…

2. Neither yet is it meant of all images for religious use, but only images of their own devising, for God does not forbid his own institutions, but only our inventions, and therefore one says both wittily and wisely, Non Imago, non simulachrum prohibetur, sed non facies tibi. T…

1. As to the design. God was well pleased, that lapsed mankind should be restored, at the first God was pleased with his creation (Exodus 31:17), on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed, that is recreated in the view of his works, as the effects of his wisdom, power and…

Seeing then that of his own good will he calls us to himself, and offers his righteousness freely, we are to take heed, that we deprive not ourselves of so great a benefit. Now because the Sabbath (as it appears by Moses and Ezekiel (Exodus 31:13-17; Ezekiel 21:13)) was the prin…

“they shall sit every man under his vine, and under his fig-tree, and none shall make them afraid,” (Micah 4:4.) 75. In holiness and righteousness As the rule of a good life has been reduced by God to two tables, (Exodus 31:18; 34:1,) so Zacharias here declares, that we serve Go…

For God so rested from his, as to take the greatest delight and satisfaction in them, to be refreshed by them. In six days the Lord made Heaven and Earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed (Exodus 31:17). He so rested from them, as that he rested in them, and bl…

1 Chronicles 9:32, [⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩], Shabbath, Shabbath; that is, every Sabbath; and somewhat variously used in the conjunction of another form; [⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩], Exodus 16:23, Chap. 35:2. And [⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩], Exodus 31:15; Leviticus 25:4. We re…

(11) Nature of the fourth Commandment thereon; what Ceremonial in it. (12) Renovation of the Command of the Sabbath, Exodus 31:12, 13. (13) Occasion hereof.

For it consists in the satisfaction and complacency that he took in his works, as effects of his goodness, power and wisdom, disposed in the order, and to the ends mentioned. Hence as it is said, that upon the finishing of them, he looked on every thing that he had made, and beh…

I call them natural, in respect of the objects that they are exercised about, which are [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], things of this life, as also in respect of their end and use. They are not always so, as to their rise and spring, but may be immediately infused, as wisdom was i…

And of this spiritual Sabbath, the temporal one is a sign and type. So (Exodus 31:13): My Sabbaths you shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you — that you may know that I am the Lord, that does sanctify you. Thirdly; it is used likewise, to signify the eternal rest of the…

Section 24. Thus God who himself began the writing of the Word with his own finger, Exodus 31:11; after he had spoken it Exodus 20; appointing or approving the writing of the rest that followed, Deuteronomy 31:12; Joshua 23:6; 1 Kings 2:3; 2 Kings 14:6; 2 Kings 17:13; 1 Chronicl…

And indeed to what end were express laws written and made known, and knowing able men in those laws deputed by God to judge according to them, if immediate and infallible answers were to be sought from God upon all occasions, and persons not to be judged by those laws? And for t…

The Sabbath is given as a distinctive Sign between the people of God, and the profane. Exodus 31.17. And among the Primitive Saints, when the question was asked, Hast thou kept the Lord's Day? the answer was, I am a Christian, and dare not omit the celebration of this day.

In these three particulars, stood the strict observation of the Jewish rest; which is altogether temporary, and does not concern the times of the New Testament; because it was only typical, the Sabbath being (in regard of that manner of rest) a figure of the most strict spiritua…

Is this Sabbath then kept holy to the Lord, when men after a due preparation, of their hearts, and ordering of their common affairs before hand, do not only observe an holy rest, all the day from their own works, words, and thoughts, about their worldly employments, and recreati…

See Exodus 22:20: He that sacrifices to any god, save to the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed. Exodus 31:14: Every one that defiles the Sabbath, shall surely be put to death. Leviticus [illegible]:16: And he that blasphemes the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to…