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:…

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…

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…

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.