Leviticus 18

Not but that God did enjoin those religious rites of worship; but the meaning is, God looked chiefly at obedience, without which sacrifice was but devout folly. The end why God has given us his law is obedience (Leviticus 18:4). You shall do my judgments, and keep my ordinances.

For by the word name, he understands the lawful estate of the people, which had always flourished, if the course of God's blessing had not been stopped. And whereas he says the people were abolished, this must be understood in respect of the land of Canaan, out of which God's pe…

But what is that righteousness of the law? Do these things, and you shall live (Leviticus 18:5; Galatians 3:12). But none can do them.

As if we asserted that true righteousness is not laid down in the law, or complained that its instruction is in fault for not justifying us, and not rather that it is weak through our flesh, (Romans 8:3.) In the commandments of God, as we have a hundred times acknowledged, life…

“And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul?” (Deuteronomy 10:12.) Vain and deceitful, also, would have been…

For the same reason the Apostle says, that we do not swear in a right manner, unless we swear by the greater, and that it belongs to God alone to swear by himself, (Hebrews 6:13.) Thus anyone who, in ancient times, swore by "Moloch," (Leviticus 18:21,) or by any other idol, with…

And certainly we ought to believe that God comprehended in his law the way of living holily and righteously, in which righteousness is included; for not without reason did Moses make this statement, He that does these things shall live in them, (Leviticus 18:5;) And again,

With respect to the law, (Deuteronomy 25:5,) by which God commanded the relatives, who were nearest of kin, to succeed the dead in marriage, if the first had died without children, the reason was, that the woman who had married into a particular family should leave offspring in…

For you see that Paul also has so taken it, not of a temporal or transitory life only, which pleases many. And Paul reasons thus from that place, seeing no man can obtain righteousness prescribed in the law, but he that fulfills exactly every part thereof: and all men have alway…

Which we have once more confirmed to us, (Ezekiel 20:11) I gave them my statutes and my judgments; which if a man do, he shall even live in them. All which places are transcribed from that of Moses, (Leviticus 18:5) you shall keep my statutes and my judgments, which if a man do,…

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, etc. Thirdly, here likewise are forbidden all incestuous mixtures, or uncleanness between those who are related to each other within the degrees of kindred specified (Levitic…

Contrary are those unnatural commixtures of parties of the same sex: which the Apostle reckons up as judgments inflicted on the heathen, because they changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped, and served the creature more than the Creator. 3. One beyond those degrees o…

For what can be expected from such polluted copulation, but a leprous and loathsome generation? This kind of intemperance is expressly forbidden (Leviticus 18:19) and a capital punishment inflicted on such as offended therein (Leviticus 20:18). Abstinence in this time is set in…

And did not the Saints, under the Old Testament, obtain Life this Way? Leviticus 18:5. He that does them (that is the Commands of God) shall live in them, Ezekiel 20:11; this Promise is repeated: And in Ezekiel 30:15.

It is notable, that God backs his laws with the consideration of his sovereignty, you shall do thus and thus, why? I am the Lord, that's all his reason (Leviticus 18:4-5), it is repeated in that and many places in the next chapter. The Papists speak much of blind obedience, obey…

But as we should not be conformed to this world at large, so not to any part of it. Is there any sin by which the land is defiled (for which the land mourns) and is ready to spit out the inhabitants thereof for it (Leviticus 18:27-28), take heed you be not found guilty; but be o…

Why must there be practice? The reason is, because it is only practice that answers God's end in giving us his Word both written and preached. Leviticus 18:4: you shall do my judgments and keep my ordinances to walk therein. Deuteronomy 26:16: this day the Lord your God has comm…

7th Commandment: You shall not commit, etc. He breaks this commandment: who looks on a woman to lust after her (Matthew 5:28); who commits incest (Leviticus 18:22); who commits sodomy (1 Corinthians 6:9); who commits fornication with married or single or contracted people (Deute…

The earth mourns and fades away, the world mourns, languishes and fades away. See also Psalm 98:8, Isaiah 16:8, Isaiah 35:1-2, Isaiah 49:13, Leviticus 18:28, etc. Now rejoicing, shouting for joy, singing, breaking forth into singing, clapping of hands, crying out, answering, mou…

In that covenant you may consider, what it did require on our parts, and what it did give on God's part; on our parts it required perfect obedience of the whole man, to the whole law all our days, according to that Galatians 3:10. Now that which God did give on his part was, tha…