Leviticus 20

With pardoning love God gives subduing grace. 9. God shows his mercy in sanctifying us (Leviticus 20:8): I am the Lord that sanctify you. This is the partaking of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4).

We borrow all our holiness from God, as the lights of the sanctuary were lighted from the middle lamp; so all the holiness of others is a lamp lighted from heaven. (Leviticus 20:8) "I am the Lord which sanctify you." God is not only a pattern of holiness, but he is a principle o…

Eighthly, this sin of adultery ushers in temporal judgments. The Mosaic Law made adultery a death penalty (Leviticus 20:10): The adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. The usual death was stoning (Deuteronomy 22:24).

And therefore we must hold them for the limbs of the devil, and his wicked instruments to draw men from God; and so in no case go to them for any help: for in so doing, we forsake the living Lord and his help, and seek for help at the devil; than which what can be more odious? B…

The blessed seraphims cover their faces, and cry holy, holy, but what angels can take the just dimensions of his sanctity? they are too low of stature to measure these pyramids. 2. God is communicatively holy; I am the Lord which sanctifies you (Leviticus 20:8). He is not only a…

Consider another reason: the whole land (says the Lord) shall be defiled with blood, till his blood be shed that kills a man (Numbers 35:33). Example 6. The adulterer and the adulteress shall both be put to death (Leviticus 20). This judicial law serves to uphold and maintain ch…

22. They shall not build, and another inhabit: they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of the tree are the days of my people, and my elect shall in old age enjoy the work of their hands. In these two verses he puts them in mind of the blessings contained in the la…

Or as they who have familiar spirits, or wizards, are said to peep and to mutter (Isaiah 8:19). A witch or wizard, is called there and in other places of Scripture (Leviticus 20:27; Deuteronomy 18:11) Ob, which signifies a bottle or bladder, because such being possessed or acted…

It is called a great wickedness against God, even on the unmarried man's part. And (Leviticus 20:10; Deuteronomy 22:22) the temporal punishment assigned to it, is no less than death: the same punishment that belonged to murder, and greater than was inflicted for theft. And if hu…

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 conversely, if we despise our fathers and mothers, and hold scorn to do our duties towards them: God is expressly offended in it, not only because we break the commandment of his law, but also because we despise his majesty, of which our fathers and mothers do bear a certain…

2nd Commandment: You shall make to yourself no graven image, etc. He breaks this commandment: who represents God in an image (Exodus 32:6-8); who worships God in or at images, as crucifixes and such like (2 Kings 18:4); who kneels down before an image; who is bodily present at M…