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 ]