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…

The lowest judicatory was of three men, who took cognizance of lighter matters; as injuries and strifes about goods, and things of a pecuniary concernment: this court was set up in lesser towns, that had few inhabitants. The second court was of three and twenty men, before whom…

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…

2. That he who slew a man at unawares be banished from conversing among the people (Numbers 35:25). 3. That those guilty of it, be hanged, or strangled (Leviticus 20:10). 4. That others as is appointed, be slain by the Sword (Exodus 20:21).

First, By Strangulation which was inflicted on six sorts of transgressors: 1. Adulterers. 2. Strikers of Parents. 3. Men-stealers. 4. Old Men exemplarily rebellious against the Law. 5. False Prophets. 6. Prognosticators by the Names of Idols. Secondly, Burning (Leviticus 20:14).…

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…

There are judgments which fall upon particular families; sometimes a great family is brought to ruin: thus it was with the house of Jeroboam, Ahab and others whom we read of in Scripture; and it was sin that provoked the Lord to destroy them all. As for the man that shall do ver…

Verse 23. And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the Camp, and stone him with stones: and the children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses. Leviticus 20:2, 3, 4. And the Lord spoke to Moses saying, Again you shall…

This kind is mentioned and expressly forbidden (Leviticus 19:31): You shall not regard them that work with spirits. Again (Leviticus 20:6): If any turn after such as work with spirits, to go a whoring after them, I will set my face against that person, and will cut him off from…

This word is therefore used for the punishment of sin, or rather for the guilt by which the man lies obnoxious to punishment (Genesis 4:7): "If you do not well sin lies at the door." Leviticus 20:20: "They shall bear their sin." And in the Levitical Law it is often used for the…

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…

And that this is true sanctification, may thus appear; because our sanctification is opposed to our original corruption, as our justification to our original and contracted guilt of sin: now as original corruption is the defacing of God's image by contrary dispositions to sinful…

Now to bear them does imply that he bore the punishment of them, and that they were imputed to him for that end. For whereas some do think that to bear our sins does signify no more but that he bore them away from us, without bearing himself any punishment deserved by them, it i…

Q. 3. Can we do this of ourselves? No, it is a special gift and grace of God, which he bestows on whom he pleases (Leviticus 20:8; Deuteronomy 30:6; Ezekiel 11:19, 20; 2 Timothy 2:25; Acts 11:18). Q. 4. Wherein does the being of true Repentance consist, without which it is not a…

Q 3. Can we do this of ourselves? A. No, it is a special gift and grace of God, which he bestows on whom he pleases, Leviticus 20. 8. Deuteronomy 30:6. Ezekiel 11:19, 20. 2 Timothy 2:25. Acts 11. 18. Q. 4. Wherein does the being of true repentance consist, without which it is no…