Leviticus 11

(2.) God hates them. In the law the cormorant was unclean (Leviticus 11:17), because a thievish devouring creature, a bird of prey, by which God showed his hatred of this sin. (3.) The thief is a terror to himself, he is always in fear.

Settling on the lees, is an emblem of a dull, inactive soul. The snail by reason of its slow motion was reckoned among the unclean (Leviticus 11:30). A slothful man hides his hand in his bosom (Proverbs 19:24), he is loath to pull it out, though it be to lay hold on a crown: Non…

While they continued, he enforced them with moral reasons, as his own holiness and authority; but those reasons prove not any of those institutions to be moral, unless they ensue upon those reasons alone, and are no where else commanded: for being once instituted and commanded,…

Take the words in their full extent, and they may be comprehensive of four sorts of institutions. (1) Of all those which concerned meats, or things to be eaten or not eaten, as being clean or unclean; an account whereof is given, Leviticus 11 throughout. With reference thereunto…

They suppose that this baptism of proselytes had its origin from another legal institution. For the same law applied to proselytes and to natives (Leviticus 11:49; Numbers 15:15) — that is, they were equally bound by the same law to the performance of the same duties. But all th…

They were secondary laws invented by the curiosity of men, as if the plain command of God were not enough. God commanded that those who had contracted any defilement should wash themselves, (Leviticus 11:25, 28;) and this extended to cups, and pots, and raiment, and other articl…

28. And the Peace-offering (Leviticus 7:2). 29. And the Meat-offering (Leviticus 11:1). 30. That if the whole Congregation offend, a Sacrifice be offered for it (Leviticus 4:13).

The Greeks thought they had no proper word to express this by, (as frequently in all their abundance they are streightned in expressing the signal emphasis of the divine Hebrew) have variously rendred it; not once properly, or with any intimation of the native importance of the…

Deuteronomy of the first sort 34, of the latter 379, in all 669. Besides they observe the number of the verses at the end of every book: as also that [in non-Latin alphabet] in [in non-Latin alphabet] Leviticus 11:42 is the middle letter of the Law; [in non-Latin alphabet], Levi…

They are like the lilies, which toil not, neither do they spin. The snail by reason of its slow motion, was reckoned among the unclean (Leviticus 11:30). Saint Austin calls idleness the burial of a man alive.

Whatever he does in religion, he does to purpose. Under the law, God rejected the snail and the ass (Leviticus 11:30; Exodus 13:13). And under the gospel, he allows no sluggish lazy professor (1 Timothy 5:11, 13).

Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect, says our Savior. And here the Apostle, citing out of the Law: be holy for I am holy (Leviticus 11:44) — law and Gospel agree in this. And as children that resemble their fathers as they grow up in years, they grow more like them — t…

We read in the law that God would not have the donkey offered in sacrifice; he hates a dull temper of soul. The snail was accounted unclean (Leviticus 11:30); the slow-paced Christian will be caught in default at last and miss the prize. It reproves those who begin the race of C…

It is a rule given by many divines in such sentences as these: Tale praeceptum qualis ratio praecepti; Ratio immutabilis facit praeceptum immutabile; Ubi ratio legis redditur moralis, ibi lex ipsa est moralis; Officia illa omnia sunt moralia et immutabilia, quae rationes morales…

You know David sinned notoriously▪ and he mourned exceedingly, rivers of tears ran from his eyes, he watered his couch with tears: all this teachs you, that the greater your sin has been, the greater your humiliation should bee. An observable Law you read of in Lev. 11. 24, 25.…

Not that anything can be accepted that is not of faith; but I speak this to show you how insignificant the profession of Talkative will be at that day. Faithful: This brings to my mind that of Moses, by which he describes the beast that is clean (Leviticus 11; Deuteronomy 14). H…

First, faith draws the heart of a Christian to live in some warrantable calling; as soon as ever a man begins to look towards God, and the ways of his grace, he will not rest, till he find out some warrantable calling and employment: an instance you have in the Prodigal son, tha…

Secondly, a man must meditate on the word which he has heard, with lifting up of his heart to God. The beasts that were cloven footed, and chewed the cud, were fittest both for meat to man, and for sacrifice to God (Leviticus 11). It was the old and ancient opinion of the Church…

For the first, the creature is then sanctified, when the curse and poison which sin brought upon it is removed, when we can use the creature with a clean conscience, and with assurance of a renewed and comfortable estate in them. It is an allusion to legal purifications and diff…

By what reasons are they confuted? (1) From David's testimony (Psalm 5:4). (2) From Moses his testimony (Deuteronomy 32:4). (3) From Daniel's testimony (Daniel 9:14). (4) From the testimony of James (James 1:13). (5) From the testimony of John (1 John 2:16; 1 John 1:5). (6) From…

(5) Because, God commanded believers under the law to offer typical sacrifices for making a propitiation for such sins, and Christ did really by his own precious blood purge them away — for by no less price could they be purged, he being made a curse for them, that he might libe…