Leviticus 26

Is it not sad to grieve our Comforter? 3. Sin is an act of contumacy against God; a walking antipodes to heaven (Leviticus 26:27): If you will walk contrary to me. A sinner tramples upon God's law, crosses his will, does all he can to affront, yes to spite God.

So that image-worship is contrary to our own homilies, and does affront the authority of the Church of England. Secondly, image-worship is expressly against the letter of Scripture (Leviticus 26:1). You shall make no graven image, neither shall you set up any image of stone to b…

All God's judgments set themselves in battle array against the disobedient. First, temporal judgments (Leviticus 26:15-16). Second, eternal: Christ comes in flames of fire to take vengeance on them that obey not (2 Thessalonians 1:8).

2. He who has a child-like heart grieves for sin, as it is an act of enmity. Sin is diametrically opposite to God: It is called a walking contrary to God (Leviticus 26:40): If they shall confess their iniquity, and that they have walked contrary to me. Sin does all it can to spi…

It consists in two things. (1.) Humiliation (Leviticus 26:41): "If their uncircumcised hearts be humbled." There is (as the schoolmen say) a two-fold humiliation, or breaking of the heart.

Pharaoh's head was crowned, though his heart was hardened. Position 7. Mercy coming to us in a covenant is sweetest: it was mercy that God would give Israel rain, and bread to the full, and peace, and victory over their enemies (Leviticus 26:4-6). But it was a greater mercy, tha…

We justify God, and confess he punishes us less than we deserve (Ezra 9:13). (3.) Patient submission to God's will lies in the accepting of the punishment (Leviticus 26:41): And they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity. Accepting of the punishment; that is, taking al…

Qu. 10. How do we in and by them build up our selves in our most holy faith? Answ. By the exercise of that communion with God in Christ Jesus, which in their due observation he graciously invites and admits us to, for the increase of his grace in us, and the testification of his…

See this in Joseph's brethren, who went on a long time without any remorse for selling their brother: But when they were stayed in Egypt, then they are roused up, and can say, Genesis 42:21, This trouble is come upon us, for selling our brother. Secondly, afflictions serve to hu…

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And the Sacrifices of this kind were of two sorts; or this kind of Sacrifices had a double use. For, (1.) The great Anniversary Sacrifice of Expiation for the Sins of the whole Congregation (Leviticus 26) was a [⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩] or [⟨ in non-Latin alphabet ⟩], a Sin Of…

O let not that which God has threatened as a judgment upon the wicked ever seize upon the breasts of the righteous. 'I will send faintness into their hearts in the land of their enemies,' said God, 'and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them' (Leviticus 26:36). O what poor-…

And this indeed is a sore and dreadful evil to swear to the high God, and to Covenant with him, to draw so nigh to him and yet to be false. God threatens in Leviticus 26:25 that he will send a sword to avenge the quarrel of his Covenant. And when we see the sword rageth so as it…

II. The Greeks call sacred columns stelai. The LXX (Septuagint) thus renders the Hebrew word matzevah; these are prohibited in (Leviticus 26:1, Deuteronomy 16:22). "Matzevah," says Kimchi, "is a stone erected for the purpose of worship."

They are indeed called gods by many impiously, but they are not; that is, they are not, as he says elsewhere (Galatians 4:8), gods by nature, but only gods by repute and in common estimation. III. Further, with respect to efficacy and outcome, they are called by various names; f…

James commands not such a confession. Daniel's, Ezra's, Peter's confession were some other thing (John 1:20; Acts 19:18; Hebrews 11:13; Proverbs 28:13; 1 John 4:2; Mark 3:6; Joshua 7:19; Daniel 9:4; Romans 10:10; 1 Timothy 6:13; Psalm 32:5; James 5:16; Leviticus 5:5; Leviticus 1…

Being then deprived of such a mercy, they justly felt the difference between the present evils, and the former benefits which they once enjoyed. This text will be the easier to understand out of Moses, whom the Prophets often follow: for in the promises, he says thus in express…

Again he shows by the effects, how desirable a thing it is to be converted to God; seeing this is the fruit of true repentance, that God will receive into his favor the repentant; and will so bless them, that nothing shall be wanting: indeed, rather they shall be satisfied to th…

For this cause he shows how the Jews being returned home from their captivity, to enjoy a true and full deliverance, shall not labor in vain; neither shall their works be fruitless. The law threatens the death of friends, wars, loss of goods, and anguish of mind (Leviticus 26:22…

But the Lord deals thus with the wicked, never ceasing to afflict them, till he has wholly overwhelmed and rooted them out, because they having been often summoned to repentance have refused, and still refuse to be reconciled to him. We are not therefore to marvel if plagues aft…

And justly does the Lord speak in this manner; for that deliverance was a sort of birth of the nation. Then were openly produced letters of adoption, when, by the promulgation of the law, they became “the Lord’s portion,” (Deuteronomy 32:9,) “a royal priesthood, and a holy natio…

there is no restraint to the Lord to save by many or by few, (1 Samuel 14:6.) As the blessing of God can make one loaf suffice as well as twenty for satisfying a great multitude, so, if that be wanting, a hundred loaves will not be a sufficient meal for ten men; for when the sta…

Third, this repentance that has been described, is indeed the special condition of remission of sin. This seems very evident by the Scripture, as particularly, Mark 1:4: John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance, for the remission of sins. So, Luke…

A redoubling say some of the same stroke: burning coals, for burning diseases. When one blow will not do the work appointed, God redoubles the stroke of his hand (Leviticus 26:22, 23, 24, 25). Or burning coals, dreadful judgments, mortal weapons, as fire and flames are often tak…

The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. And therefore in the greater transgressions of the Law, the people were said to forsake, to break, to profane, to transgress the covenant of God (Leviticus 26:15; Deuteronomy 3:20; Chap. 17:2; Hosea 6:7; Joshua 7:11; 2 Kings 18:…

And they principally respected these three heads. First, That they should possess the Land of Canaan, and there enjoy that worship which he had prescribed to them (see Exodus 6:4; chapter 34:10, 11; Leviticus 26:8, 9; Deuteronomy 18:18; chapter 29:13; Psalm 105:10, 11). Secondly…

13. That we set not up a Statua, or Image any where (Deuteronomy 16:22). 14. That no painted or carved Stone be set to be bowed to (Leviticus 26:1). 15. That no Tree be planted in the Sanctuary (Deuteronomy 16:21).

And herein also was an eminent representation of the everlasting cutting off of obstinate and final transgressors of the Covenant. Thirdly, in judgments to be brought providentially upon the whole nation by pestilence, famine, sword and captivity, which are at large declared, Le…

Secondly observe, Satan tries another way, and he tries a way more probable and efficacious for his ends than the former; when a weaker will not do it, he provides stronger means. As God in punishing or chastening sinners, when a lesser judgment will not humble them, he sends a…

Does not the demonstration of all God's people in the world, the consideration whereof in particular, might be insisted on as the ground and reason of the truth insisted on, require that it should be thus? Leviticus 26, and almost the whole book of Deuteronomy, are sermons on th…

3. Because they will not hearken to the voice of lesser afflictions; when God's word is not heard, he speaks by his rod; when his rod is not heard, he shoots with his arrows and strikes with his sword; and if lesser afflictions be not minded, then God speaks by more dreadful awa…

5. God does expect that London should be humble under these judgements. God inflicted judgements on the children of Israel in the wilderness, to humble them (Deuteronomy 8:16), and he promises after the sorest distresses which he brings his people into for their sins, to remembe…

But now, when this was brought to pass, God set up his tabernacle in the midst of his people, as he had before promised them. Leviticus 26:11. "I will set up my tabernacle among you" The tabernacle was set up at Shiloh, Joshua 18:1, and the priests and Levites had their offices…

O 'tis a spending day to him. When he has gathered in the crop of one duty, he is not to sit down satisfied with it, or say as that rich worldling did (Luke 12:19), Soul take your ease, you have goods laid up for many years, but must to plow again, and count it well if the vinta…

So does God; wherever he plants a church there does he fix his habitation, intending there to dwell (Psalm 46:5): God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved. Thus God came to dwell upon his own fee and inheritance, in Judea (Leviticus 26:11-12): And I will set my taberna…

And as the prophet Jeremiah forbids the carrying of burdens on the Sabbath, because that was a sanctified day: so because the Temple was a place sanctified, our Lord would not suffer, no not the carriage of a vessel through the Temple (Mark 11). These two commandments therefore…

That sovereignty which has place in choosing and calling nations, as Israel because he freely loves (Deuteronomy 7:7), Israel, and their seed, not other nations (Deuteronomy 10:7), he says, preach to Macedonia, not to Bithynia, and though afterward the Gospel came to Bithynia, m…

(1.) You must humble yourselves under his mighty hand (when you are exercised with great and sore temptations) and accept the punishment of your iniquity, without murmuring; that's the only way to get it off, when you own it as the fruit of sin. (Leviticus 26:41) If then their u…

And therefore the apostle makes it to be an argument of God's bounty to the heathen, that as he gave them food, so he gave them gladness of heart: (Acts 14:17). He gave them rain from Heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling their hearts with food and gladness: that is, gave them a…

And if fatherhood be ascribed to Abraham, it is ascribed to Jacob too (Isaiah 58:14). And if Abraham be first named in the covenant, so is Jacob (see Leviticus 26:42). But if you allow these three patriarchs, probably that is all you will allow; for you seem to say that no feder…

This hypothesis pinches you with another dilemma, namely: either there was pardon on repentance in Moses's covenant and the Sinai dispensation of the law, or there was none. If you say there was none, you directly contradict (Leviticus 26:40-46). If there were, then it cannot be…

O what a heavy judgment was it, to be given up to the counsels of their own heart! 2. It reproves such as do not consult with God's word about their affairs, but merely live as they are acted by their own lusts, or walk at all adventures; so the expression in the marginal readin…

God's judgments are to break our carnal dependencies. 3. Still the hope increases, when we acknowledge his justice and wisdom in all our troubles (Leviticus 26:41). If then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity, kiss the…

How few are there that give him thanks for his seasonable discipline, and observe God's faithfulness and the benefit they have by afflictions, but rather murmur, repine and fret through impatience? If it be good to be afflicted, let us accept of it, for good is matter of choice…

When the soul keeps silence to God, and a due and suitable impression is left upon it, of his justice by a meek and humble submission (Micah 7:9): I will bear the indignation of the Lord, for I have sinned against him. When God is angry, and chastises for sin, we must stoop humb…

The Lord your God shall circumcise your heart, to love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your mind, that you may live. It was figured in the cutting of the foreskin, or the circumcision of the flesh; which because it was an action done with pain, sometimes note…

1. Then the sinfulness of sin not only appears by, but consists in this, that it is contrary to God, yes, contrariety and enmity itself in the very abstract: Carnal men, or sinners, are called by the name of enemies to God (Romans 5:8, 10; Colossians 1:21), but the carnal mind o…

For herein lies the spiritual evil of sins and that hidden poison and malignity of the corruption of our natures, that they jostle professedly against the Almighty so far as he is pleased to communicate himself to us in the ways of his holiness and goodness. Thus the blasphemer…

God has no passions in him, properly essential to him, but we ascribe them to him with respect to his Providence. The Scripture therefore signifies such things to be the fruits of his indignation (Jeremiah 4:4; Leviticus 26:28; Job 20:28). Godly men are taken away by death, but…

First, we must mourn for sin as it is an act of hostility and enmity. Sin does not only make us unlike God, but contrary to God (Leviticus 26:40): They have walked contrary to me. Sin affronts and resists the Holy Ghost (Acts 7:51).