help they forets! many things to come, and acquaint men with ſe. cret things. See Lev. 20: 27. Deut: 18: 11: 1 Sam: 28: 3,7,9. 2 Kings 21:6. 6 Another name expreſſing the ſame thing for ſubſtance wit, perfons in 1-agu= with the Devil, with ſome difference on]
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32 Thou ſhalt riſe up c before the hoary head, and honnur the face of the old man, and fear thy C c : I am the LORD. ET Oe 2
c To do them reverence when they paſs by, for which were obliged, as the Jews ſay, whe tm bo ig down ok rh 4 they were paſt, that it might be manifeſt they aroſe out of reſpe&F+ ro them # A reaſon of the former precept, voth becauſe old - 2 in ſome reſpe& do moſt reſemble God, who is tiled che ancient days, Dan; 7.9, 13. and becauſe this reſpe& is due to ſuch for themſelves, who may be unworthy or contemptible Gods ſake, who requires this reverence, /
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: ; jt ky peed L - b = . B LEAWVFTICUS Chap. XX. * Deut: be unto you as ons born amongſt you £ and * thou [ [(7.e) $ tw m__— you from = Nations, and res hay i 7 "Pp : . 1mpurities ar o1atries, to be a peculiar people to my lelf, and 10.19: ſhalt _ him m—_ _ oy tx _ gersg inthe | PucO er will noe ſoffer yo.eo — Cans nn fre Sony Bar land of Egypt : 1am th 7 x5 nk really fan@ify.you, and give you my grace to do what I require, f Either 1. as to the matters of common right, as1t here follows: 7. e, ro keep-my tarutes, Or the argument is this, Thoſe Idols and ſv it reacheth re all ſtrangers. Or 2. as to Church-priviledges : Jdolatries will defile you and make you worſe, -but Ionly and my
to i avnirerts only _ "_ mou profelyees of righnoulRgy js pe” will ſanftify you and make-you better. SIE And therefore are {ſenſible ot the Tears, dItreies, and mMUeries Ortuch, 9 For mm every one th (: h » hi f. h hi *Fod ens. 7 - ery. at Curieth » his tather, oro his : which call for your pity, and you ought todo to them, as you would mother, thall be ſurely put ts death :he hath curſed his ? A Dy
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that others ſhould do to you when you were ſuch. : o_ ; of 25 Ye ſhall do no untighteouſneſs in judgment, in father, or his' mother, his blood ſhall be upon him Pf” Piovm | 2m Or, ſurely, as that particle, chi; is oft uſed, as Job $8. 6. & 20. 20. 208 T7
mete-yard 6, in weight,' or in meaſure 5. Pad es 2 25 ; , . needs no diſpute about the connexior, © 2 h In the meaſuring of1ands, —_- IG — ey 3s |, reafonof WER ; hating) Sits —_—_ paler I 5: 4; * cloth, ribband, ©. 3 _ the meaſuring 0 "is we rk ye on. of bitter reproaches or imprecations. o Heb. and put for'sr, as hath as are not continued, only contiguous, as or corn or wine, 2%. Ur,tii ted before. p He is waiy Elias oor dadch 2 hs Lc ; the former may note greater, the latter leſs, meaſures. die for Gn ke. | th: s to
36 * Juſt balances, juſt + weights, a juſt ephah, and| 1 a+ the man that committeth adultery with * Deut; a juſt hin # ſhall ye have: I a» the LORD your Go another mans wife, even Faro commutteth —_— wh —_ his neighbours: wife, the adulcerer and the adultereſs 12545 hall ſurely be put to death. | Ii * And theman that lieth with his fathers wife, hath * Chap: | uncovered his fathers nakedneſs: both of them ſhal ſurety 3:8: be put to death ; their blood ſhe# be upon them. | 12 * Andif a man lie with his daughter in Jaw, both * Chap: } of them (hall ſurely be put to deach: they have wrought 18: 15: * confution q ; their blood ſhall be upon them, —__ 9 By perverting the order which God hath appointed, and "0"
* Deut? 25: 13: Prov:11:1 which brought you out of the land of Egypt. & 16: 11* ; Theſe two meaſures are named as moſt common, the former for & 20: 10: dry, the lafter for moiſt things : but under them be manifeſtly t Heb: comprehends all other meafures;
Jones 27 Therefore k ſhall ye obſerve all my ſtatutes, and all my judgments, and do them : I aws the LORD»
Becauſe my bleſſings and deliverances are not indulgences to fin, but greater obligations to all duties to God and Man. So that if religion and righteouſneſs were utterly loſt in the World, they ought in all reaſon to be found among yau as my peculiar people and freed
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Iſraelites muff not offer their Children to Molech on pain of Death, 1 —3. Which if not infliffed by the Mogiftrate, ſhall be by God himſelf, 4, 5. The ſame, againſt running after Sooth«ſayers, 6. | Parents, 9g. Againſt Adultery, 10. Or inceſtuous md unlawful copulation with Women, Men, or Beaſis, 11 21. They muſt put a difference between clean and unclean, 22 ſtoned, 27. :
k N D the LORD ſpake unto Moſes, ſaying,
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18:10 his ſeed unto Molech c, he ſhall ſurely be put to death :
whe the people of the land shall ſtone him with ſtones.
23: 10: a Here follow the puniſhments of the crimes forbidden in rhe
Jer:32:35: former Chapters. 6 Not only ſuch as were Proſclytes, bur all others, theſe being groſs immoralities, and ſuch as the precepts of Noah reached to, and ſuch as the laws of nature and nations obliged them to. And therefore the toleration offuch aQtions was not only againſt reaſon of ſtate, and the intereſt of the common-wealth of 7/rael,"and dangerous to the infe&ion and deſtru&ion of the 7jraelites by the
imitation of ſuch examples, bur alſo againſt the lighr of nature and .
laws ef humanity. c Or to any other Idol ; for the reaſon of the
law equally coneerns all. See Zevir. 18. 27. 3 And I will ſet my face againſt that man 4, and
will cut him off from among his people e : becauſe he hath given of his ſzed unto Molech, to defile my ſanetu-
ary f, and to prophane my holy Name g.
4 (i.e.) Deal with him as an enemy, and mikz: him a monument of my juſtice, either by puniſhing him immediately and eminently, when the Magiſtrate cannot or will not do 1t, or by adding to his corporal puniſhments my curſe upon his ſcul and name. See Lev: 17: 19. e From the number of his people, of what nation or kindred ſoever he was, or, from the land of the living. f Which was done