Leviticus 25

A believer may fall from some degrees of grace, but not from the state of grace. An Israelite could never wholly sell or alienate his land of inheritance (Leviticus 25:23). A type of our heavenly inheritance which cannot be wholly alienated from us.

If you had a friend who should say, Come when you will to me, I will supply you with money: would you think it a trouble to visit that friend often? God commands us to fear him (Leviticus 25:43). But fear your God.

Thus he goes to support his covetousness with Scripture. Response: It is true, God has told you to take pains in a calling, but not hurt your neighbor; he has told you to provide for your family, but not by oppression (Leviticus 25:14): "You shall not oppress one another." He ha…

Quest. How [illegible] show our honor to our Father in Heaven? Resp. 1. By having a reverential awe of God upon us (Leviticus 25:17). You shall fear your God: This reverential fear of God is when we dare do nothing that he has forbidden in his Word (Genesis 39:9).

Some masters are cruel to the souls of their servants; they look that they do the work about the house, but abridge them of time they should employ in working out salvation. (5.) Masters should use mild gentle behavior towards servants (Ephesians 6:9), forbearing threatening (Le…

This over-reaching others in selling, (which is a cunning way of stealing) is both against law and gospel. 1. It is against the law of God. (Leviticus 25:14) If you sell anything to your neighbor, you shall not oppress one another. And, 2. Against gospel. (1 Thessalonians 4:6) L…

Second Arg. If infants may be among the number of God's servants, then there is no reason why they should be shut out of God's family: but infants may be in the number of God's servants: that is evident, because God calls them his servants. Leviticus 25:4: "He shall depart from…

They would pick out the best grains of the wheat, and sell the worst at the same price as they did the best; to mix a coarser commodity with a fine, and yet sell it all for fine, is no better than deceit (Isaiah 1:22). Fourthly, beware of stretching your consciences too far, or…

But we must not do so: our conversation must be in heaven, from whence we look for our Savior Jesus Christ. Thirdly, we must have a serious care and endeavor to please God: for, all the earth is his, and we are but sojourners in his sight; therefore as the Pilgrim is careful to…

And in place of altars which were under the law, we have now the Lord's table on which we celebrate the sacrament of his body and blood, to show forth his death till he come. The fourth point is, concerning the time of Christ's oblation, which he himself calls the acceptable yea…

Now the Prophet affirms that he is the herald of the grace which is to be revealed, the time of which rests wholly in the disposition of the Almighty: for as himself was to be the redeemer of his Church by his mere favor, so was it in his own power (and that by good right) to ma…

And thus I have done with the first and greatest kind of theft, taking away what rightfully belongs to another, whether God or man. Secondly, another kind of theft is oppression, and unreasonable exaction; and this especially is the sin of superiors towards their inferiors, taki…

A reproof will work more effectually with some than stripes; and those who have ingenuous spirits, though in a servile condition, will either be discouraged, or exasperated by a too-rigorous usage. And God has expressly interposed his will in this particular (Leviticus 25:34): Y…

It is only of the first of these, the temporal Sabbath, that I am now speaking. And here, neither shall I speak of the Sabbath of years, when the land was every seventh year to rest from the labor of tillage and husbandry, as we find it (Leviticus 25:4): The seventh year shall b…

So that the gospel shall begin to be preached with abundantly greater clearness and power than had heretofore been: for this great work of God shall be brought to pass by the preaching of the gospel, as it is represented in Revelation 14:6-8 that before Babylon falls, the gospel…

How needful it is for the establishment of a commonwealth that families should thus be continued, is evident both by experience to all such as have but half an eye to see wherein the stability of a commonwealth consists, and also by the many laws which God ordained among the Jew…

The fourth point to be noted of a master's power over his servants respects their persons, which so properly belong to a master for the time of their service, as he may not only keep them himself for his own service, but also pass them over, and give, or sell them to another. By…

And therefore the publication of the gospel is compared to the year of Jubilee; (Luke 4:19) Christ came to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. It relates to the year of Jubilee, wherein all debts were canceled; it was a year of general releasement, proclaimed by sound of tru…

There could be no reconciliation, no amity, no alliance, until sin was expiated, and Justice satisfied: therefore Christ was not only made of a woman, but made under the law; first, our brother by [reconstructed: Incarnation], and then our Redeemer by his death and suffering. As…

First reason: God commands. There is an express statute-law (Leviticus 25:35): If your brother grows poor and falls into decay with you, you shall relieve him. The Hebrew word means 'you shall strengthen him' — put under him a silver crutch when he is falling.

I begin with the first — the act, looking. There is a threefold looking. A looking with desire, as the servant looked for the year of jubilee and release (Leviticus 25:40), or as the bride looks for the marriage day. Now it is a time of absence from our husband Christ; therefore…

2. Debasing a commodity, Amos 8:6. They sell the refuse of the wheat: they would pick out the best grains of the wheat, and sell the worst at the same price as they did the best, Isaiah 1:22. Thy wine is mixed with water: they did adulterate their wine, yet make their customers…