CONTENTS
As Moses had now nearly concluded everything relating to the precepts;
he enjoins the people in this chapter to adopt a means of keeping
alive in their remembrance the great things of GOD'S law, by writing
it upon stones. And the chapter is concluded in aiming to impress the
whole still mo... [ Continue Reading ]
If the Reader will recollect, similar methods of perpetuating the law
of GOD, were observed after the delivery on Mount Sinai. Exodus 24:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
I beg the Reader not to overlook the plainness to be observed in the
building of this altar: nothing of human art or labour was to be
joined with it, nor any human tool to pollute it. And as CHRIST is our
altar, was not this manifestly teaching that his purity would be
sullied, if we bring to it any... [ Continue Reading ]
The feast of peace-offerings, carried with it a token of the peace and
amity between GOD and his people. The feast of the LORD'S Supper in
the Gospel Church is to the same amount, for it is a feast upon a
sacrifice, in token that JESUS hath made our peace in the blood of his
cross: he is our passove... [ Continue Reading ]
The repeated charges and cautions given, imply the vast importance of
the thing itself. Deuteronomy 30:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
The Mount Ebal, and the Mount Gerizzim, stood near each other, a
valley being between them. It is worthy remark, that in the Gospel
state, when JESUS went up into the mountain, it was only to bless his
people. The tribes were divided in six to each, for blessing the
people, and for pronouncing the c... [ Continue Reading ]
Probably from the number of Israel, many Levites was engaged in this
service.... [ Continue Reading ]
I detain not the Reader with observations concerning the several
curses here pronounced, or entering into the particulars of them. It
is enough to remark, that they express their several sentences of
condemnation to the several breaches of the law: and as the law
pronounceth a curse upon everyone th... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS
How sweet and refreshing to my soul are the views of JESUS, as the
high priest and altar, and offering of my heart, in the moment that I
read the solemn charges of GOD'S law, and the dreadful penalty of
disobedience. My soul indeed cannot but subscribe with full consent to
GOD'S justice... [ Continue Reading ]