Observe the argument the Lord is pleased to make use of, for more
strongly enforcing the divine precepts that follow in this Chapter. He
saith I am the Lord. The Lord, the Creator, the first self-existing
cause of all. His authority therefore is indisputable, to command. But
this is not all. I am th... [ Continue Reading ]
CONTENTS
The former Chapter was preparatory to this. In that, we saw the very
solemn and awful manner in which Jehovah was pleased to manifest the
tokens of his presence, on Mount Sinai. And in this, we have the
declarations he made, in the delivery of the Ten Commandments to the
people. The effect... [ Continue Reading ]
This is the first of the four first commandments, which belong to the
first table of the law, concerning our duty to God. Our blessed Lord
is the great Commentator upon it. Matthew 22:36.... [ Continue Reading ]
These verses contain the second commandment, in which the ordinances
of divine worship are pointed out, the prohibition of all creature
adoration, and the reasons on which the worship of God alone is
enjoined. Isaiah 40:18; Deuteronomy 4:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
This is the third commandment. It were to be devoutly wished, that it
were written in the heart by the Spirit of the Lord. Then should we
not have so much occasion to lament the profanation of it, as we now
have, by the rash use of the tremendous name of the Lord in ordinary
discourse; anti in the s... [ Continue Reading ]
These verses contain the fourth commandment. This is among the
earliest precepts of God. Genesis 2:3. And how much more ought its
observance to be endeared to us, since the resurrection of the Lord
Jesus! Matthew 28:1; Luke 24:1. I detain the Reader just to add, how
highly the due observance of this... [ Continue Reading ]
This is the fifth commandment: and the first of the second table of
the law concerning our duty to our neighbour. The apostle calls this
the first commandment with promise. Ephesians 6:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
This is the sixth commandment. Our Lord explains the extent of it,
Matthew 5:21.... [ Continue Reading ]
This is the seventh commandment. Jesus is the great Commentator again
here, Matthew 5:28; Matthew 5:28.... [ Continue Reading ]
This is the eighth commandment. The apostle points out the extent of
this precept, Ephesians 4:28; 1 Thessalonians 4:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
This is the ninth commandment. This is violated as well by speaking
falsely and unjustly of our neighbour, as by witnessing to such
things. What a beautiful picture is drawn of the man that hath grace
to live up to this precept. Psalms 15:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
This is the tenth commandment. This points to the very root of evil in
the desire of the heart, and shows how that by thinking, as well as by
doing evil, we break the law of God. Paul shows the spirituality of
this, and thereby, of all the other precepts of God, in his own
experience. Romans 7:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
Reader! observe here once again, the awful signs with which the Lord
proclaimed his law. And doth not the Holy Ghost even now, in bringing
home to the sinner a deep sense of transgression, accompany his word
to the soul with the same? Gal_3:10-12; Gal_3:24.... [ Continue Reading ]
Reader! pause over this verse, and consider your happy privilege in
having Jesus to speak for you to God, and to you from God. 1 John 2:1.
The apostle observes upon this, Hebrews 12:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
Deuteronomy 8:2... [ Continue Reading ]
How delightful in this view of Moses is it to discover the type of
Christ! Jeremiah 30:21.... [ Continue Reading ]
Reader! observe how earnest the Lord is to guard the people from every
species of idolatry. Deuteronomy 4:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
Is not this altar of earth intended to shew, that as the earth is the
Lord's, and the fulness thereof, and nothing of creature property is
to be mixed with it, so salvation is all the Lord's; nothing of human
merit or work composing any part of it? Isaiah 63:5. Is not the
presence of the Lord here p... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS
BLESSED God! do thou enable me to reverence thine holy law, and never
to lose sight of that solemn truth, that rather than one jot, or
tittle, of thy law should fail; thou hast given that glorious,
all-sufficient Surety, to be made sin for us, that we might be made
the righteousness of... [ Continue Reading ]