Numbers 32

So (Hosea 2:16) God would no more be called Baal, though it signified Lord and Husband, because the title had been applied to idols. The Israelites when they took cities, they changed their names if they had any tincture of idolatry (Numbers 32:38), Nebo and Baalmeon, their name…

The prohibition is renewed (Joshua 2:7), You shall not make mention of the names of their Gods; which is yet extended farther (Deuteronomy 12:3) to a command, to destroy and blot out the names of the gods of the people, which by this means are retained. Accordingly the children…

Besides they observe the number of the verses at the end of every book: as also that [in non-Latin alphabet] in [in non-Latin alphabet] Leviticus 11:42 is the middle letter of the Law; [in non-Latin alphabet], Leviticus 10:16 the middle word; Leviticus 13:33 the middle verse; th…

Now he that by Faith has Interest in his Surety, has his Discharge, his Quietus est, sealed in the Blood of Christ; all Process at Law, or from the Law, is stopt Romans 8:1. But if you be an impenitent, persisting sinner, your debt remains upon your own score. And be sure your s…

Besides, our affections to heavenly things languish when all things succeed with us in this world according to heart's desire; and this coldness and remissness is not easily shaken off. Many are like the children of Reuben and Gad (Numbers 32), who when they found convenient pas…

Sin will follow the sinner like a blood hound, and will find him out at last. Therefore Moses said to the Rubenites (Numbers 32:23), Be sure your sin will find you out: and it will not be long first. Punishment treadeth on the heels of sin.

Salvian observes, that in Africa, when the Church of God had degenerated from its purity, the Land abounded in Vice, and was sick of a Pleurisy of sin, then the Vandals entered Africa, and the enemies Sword let them blood. Numbers 32.23. Be sure your sin will find you out: as a…