Numbers 5

Damned caitiffs will have nothing to ease their torments; not one drop of honey in all their gall. In the sacrifice of jealousy, there was to be no oil put to it (Numbers 5). In hell there is no oil of mercy put to the sufferings of the damned, to lenify them.

It is a cup mixed; yet it is without mixture, namely, there shall be nothing to afford the least comfort, no mixture of mercy; so it is a cup without mixture. In the Sacrifice of Jealousy (Numbers 5:15), there was no oil put to it. So in the torments of the damned there is no oi…

(3.) In the pains of Hell there is no mitigation, no mixture of mercy. In this life, God in anger remembers mercy, (Habakkuk 3:2) but in Hell there is no alleviation or lessening of the pains: as in the sacrifice of jealousy, (Numbers 5:15) God would have no oil or frankincense…

As the seal leaves its print upon the wax, so labor that the word preached may leave the print of its own holiness upon your heart. Labor that the word may have such a virtue upon you as the water of jealousy, to kill and make fruitful, (Numbers 5:27). That it may kill your sins…

To see Christ crucified for us, is a means to crucify sin in us. Christ's death (like the water of jealousy) makes the thigh of sin to rot (Numbers 5:27). How can a wife endure to see that spear which killed her husband?

In Hell there's not a drop of mercy. There was no oil or frankincense used in the sacrifice of jealousy (Numbers 5:15); in Hell no oil of mercy to alleviate the sufferings of the damned, nor incense of prayer to appease God's wrath. 5. A fifth aggravation of the loss of this kin…

It is further said, we must restore in the spirit of meekness. The word spirit is added, because it proceeds from the spirit of God, who is both the worker and continuer thereof: as on the contrary, the spirit of jealousy (Numbers 5:14), the spirit of error (1 John 4:6), the spi…

As for your cavil at the oath ex officio, since you will needs draw it in by head and shoulders; however little it concerns us, I return you this answer — That, if any of our profession have in the pressing of it exceeded the lawful bounds, I excuse him not, I defend him not; le…

And this life is called the blood, because it is contained or carried in the blood (Genesis 9:4). Further, it is also observable, that the Hebrews call the body separated from the soul, or a dead corpse, Nephesh (Numbers 5:2; 9:10; 19:11; Haggai 2:14). Though the life be quite g…

It is an excellent saying of Augustine: he truly bewails the sins he has committed who never commits the sins he has bewailed. True mourning is like the water of jealousy — it makes the thigh of sin to rot (Numbers 5:12). Psalm 74:14: you broke the heads of the dragons in the wa…

Keep your heart when you are in company; vain company is the bait by which Satan is angling for the heart. In the law, he who touched a dead body was unclean (Numbers 5:2); the heart is apt to be defiled by being among those who are dead in sin. It is easy to catch a disease in…

Whosoever has wronged others in their estate, by unjust fraudulent dealing, ought in conscience to make them recompence. There is an express Law for this, (Numbers 5:7). He shall recompence his trespass, with the principal of it, and give it to him against whom he has trespassed.

We would not willingly entertain one into our house who had the plague. Sin brings a curse along with it, which is the plague of God that cleaves to a sinner; sin is like the water of jealousy which made the belly to swell, and the thigh to rot, Numbers 5:22. The meditation of t…

The word is clear for both confession, and sorrow for sin: though Antinomians make it a work of the flesh in the justified person, either to confess sin, or to sorrow for it, or to crave pardon for it. For confession there is commandment, practice, promise (Numbers 5:6): Speak t…