Numbers 25

Praise is the quit-rent we pay to God; while God renews our lease, we must renew our rent. 12. We glorify God by being zealous for his name (Numbers 25:11): Phinehas has turned my wrath away, while he was zealous for my sake. Zeal is a mixed affection, a compound of love and ang…

There is the habit of faith, and the drawing of this habit into exercise: For a Christian to graft his hope of salvation only upon the stock of Christ's righteousness, and make Christ all in justification; to live on the promises as the bee on the flower, and suck out the sweetn…

But the Promise made to Phineas seems to be express for an eternity in this Priesthood. Behold, says God, I give to him my Covenant of Peace, and he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the Covenant of an Everlasting Priesthood (Numbers 25:12, 13). But this proves not a c…

And this may be added further, that this place seems not only to be meant of the private or personal conversion of this or that particular Christian, but also further, of the open and joint calling of a company, because it is said, they shall come, the children of Israel and the…

That which is here translated of the concrete, I find it may be as well translated of the abstract, They were abominable as their love: and so it's carried by interpreters, that is, they were abominable as their idols were that they did love, and their idols were called love in…

I. The first foreign god by whose worship the people, having returned from Egypt, defiled themselves was Baal-peor. He is first mentioned in Numbers 25:3: "Israel joined itself to Baal-peor." Also in Psalms 106:28: "They also joined themselves to Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifice…

By feeling of the heart, we choose, love, desire, delight, are zealous in the good thing itself, that it may be done; to refuse, hate, abhor, and are zealous against the known evil (Amos 5:14; Philippians 1:9; 1 Thessalonians 2:1). Among these, zeal is an earnest affection of th…

Cor 10:8. meaning of the common sort, excluding those that were hanged vp: for in all there were 24 thousand. Num 25:9. Thus the contrarieti[•] which seemes to be between those two places, may be better accorded, then to say (as some doe) that the pen-men, or scribes, failed in…

But for the generality of the nation, being not heirs of the promise, they were fallen off to superstition and idolatry. Exceeding enemies they were to the people in the wilderness, vexing them with their wiles, and provoking them to abominations, that the Lord might consume the…

For these Shittim boards were reckoned among the stores of silver and brass, and such other things as they had brought with them into the Wilderness (Exodus 35:25), and that expression, [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩] Every one with whom was found Shittim-wood, intimates the rarity of…

Among those who walk with God, there is no greater motive and incentive unto universal holiness, and the preserving of their hearts and spirits in all purity and cleanness, than this — that the blessed Spirit who has undertaken to dwell in them as temples of God, and to preserve…

In the new Testament also, though the punishing by death according to Moses' law of apostates be approved of, as in pages 52, 53 of this book I have shown, and several judicial laws for the substance ratified pages 56, 57, yet the formalities, accessories, with all particulariti…

15. A godly man is a zealous man; grace turns a Saint into a Seraphim, it makes him burn in holy zeal; zeal is a mixed affection, a compound of love and anger, it carries forth our love to God, and anger against sin in the most intense manner. Zeal is the flame of the affections…

No, so ready is God to be taken off from this work, that he sets a high value upon those who stand in the gap to turn away his wrath. Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, has turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, that I consumed them not in my jealousy; therefore behold I g…

In Numbers 16:15. Moses again is wroth, because Korah, Dathan, and Abiram rebelled against him, and in him against God. Phinehas (Numbers 25:8, 11) is said to have been zealous, that is, angry for God: the occasion was, because the Israelites committed fornication with heathenis…

(3) Because the capital punishment of evildoers makes others stand in awe and fear to offend. (Deuteronomy 13:11; Deuteronomy 19:20.) (4) Because if the Magistrate shall neglect to inflict due punishment, the Lord himself will be avenged on that Magistrate. (1 Kings 20:42; Numbe…