Leviticus 19:1
CONTENTS This Chapter is a continuation of the same subject as the former. Here are many precepts of a moral and religious nature.... [ Continue Reading ]
CONTENTS This Chapter is a continuation of the same subject as the former. Here are many precepts of a moral and religious nature.... [ Continue Reading ]
The apostle Peter hath given the best comment upon this precept. 1 Peter 1:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
It is worthy observation, that the fear and reverence due to parents, is connected with that the LORD hath appointed to his Sabbaths. Wherever we see children living in the observance of these precepts, these things afford hopeful signs of grace. If the LORD our GOD be a covenant GOD to our fathers,... [ Continue Reading ]
These are all so many repetitions of the laws, on the same points, which had been given before. Leviticus 7:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
These are gracious precepts, teaching and implying the LORD'S love to acts of mercy. Reader! is there not also somewhat spiritual in them? While we have JESUS for our substance, the poorest of his people will have their gleanings, Ruth 2:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
All these precepts explain themselves. The argument made use of for the enforcing them is striking; the LORD'S authority. Cursing the deaf, putting a stumbling block in the way of the blind; and the like; these are crimes which, perhaps, the one might not be hurt by, nor the other offended: but the... [ Continue Reading ]
Certainly there is a spiritual meaning in this prohibition of mingling seed, and of wearing a motly garment. The question is what is it? Perhaps, (for I do not take upon me to decide) the mystical intention might be, to show that we cannot wear our own woollen garment of nature, the very best of our... [ Continue Reading ]
The apostle to the Galatians, hath given us so much authority to consider the law and the gospel as shadowed out in the Old Testament, that I venture to think we are, in many cases like the present, allowed to interpret it spiritually. See Galatians 4:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
Besides the evident intention of this precept, in testifying thereby, that we hold all we have, as tenants of will, under the LORD; and therefore it is but justice and equity that we should pay the rent with the first fruits: no doubt this precept reached further, and had respect to the offering of... [ Continue Reading ]
These precepts are rather obscure. It is probable, that they refer to the heathenish practices of the idolatrous neighbours around Israel. And if so, they serve to teach, that everything which hath the remotest tendency to the unfruitful works of darkness, is to be cautiously abstained from. Ephesia... [ Continue Reading ]
These precepts are to the same effect as the former, in point of plainness and tendency. And they are enforced by the same authority. It is very interesting to the true believer in CHRIST, while reading the extensiveness of the divine laws, to call to mind how faithfully they are fulfilled in JESUS.... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS MY soul! learn hence thy noble privileges, in the contemplation of that gracious state, into which thou art brought by faith. Oh! for faith, in full exercise, from the SPIRIT's work in the heart, to live wholly upon JESUS'S fulness. And since thou, LORD, hast prohibited, by so many prec... [ Continue Reading ]