whom therefore he led forwards towards Canaan. | in j urney 12 And now, Ifrael, * what doth the LORD thy * Mic, God require of thee }, but to fear the LORD thy God, 6: 8: towalk in all his ways, and * ts love him, and to ſerve + Chaps the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all 6: 5: thy ſoul, | I By way of duty and gratitude to God for ſuch amazing mercies. 13 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his ſtatutes, which I command thee this day for thy good? 14 Behold * the heaven #1, and the heaven of heavens , Plate) is the LORD thy God's, * the earth alſo, with all'; 48: 4+ hat therein 5s 0. * Exod: m The airy and ſtarry heaven. #* The higheſt or third heeven, 19: 5: I Kings 8. 27. 2 Cor. 12. 2. called the Heaven of heavens, for its Pal: eminency, as ths Song of ſongs, King of kings, Holy of halies, &c. o With 24: 1; all cre-tures and all men, which being all his, he might have choſen what Nation he pleaſeth to be his people. , 15 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them p, and he choſe their ſeed after them, evey you, above all people, as zt is this day. | þ He ſhews that God had no particular reaſon nor obligation to their Fathers any more than to other perſons or peeple, all being equally his creatures, and rhat his choice of them cut ofand above all ot ers, proceed:d only from God's good pleaſure and free love. 16 Circumciſe therefore * the foreskin of your hearts 1, _ be no more ſtiff-necked. at _ qReſt aotin your bodily circumciſion, but ſeriouſly ſet vpon thar 69155 313 ſubſtanrial work which is ſignified and deſigned me fra pres your hearts from all filthineſs and ſuperfluity of naughtineſs, which firly compared to the forezkin which if not cut off, made perſons profane, unclean and odious in the ſight of God. Compare Dent. 30. 6. Jer. 4. 4. & 9. 25. Rom. 2. 28, 29. Col. 2.11, 17 For the LORD your God zs God: of gods, and * Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which * regardeth not perſons r, nor taketh reward, *R: r Whether Jews or Gentiles, but deals juſtly and equally with all +7 <# forts of men; and as whoſoever fears and obeys him ſhall be accep- he ' ted of him, ſo all incorrigible tranſgreſfors ſhall be ſeverely puniſh- pg 7:Job _ and mou by leſs _ other people : therefore do not flatter your 2608 ſelves as if God would bear with your ſins becauſe of hi , | kindneſs to you or to your Sr wok 99-0 poocioder 34: Ront: X . 2; 11: | [Harwrorn _ _ _ pu s of the fatherleſs, Gal: »:& dow, and loverth the ſtranger, in giving him food Eph: 6:5 _—_ raiment. | Col.z. 25. s (f.e. ) Plead their cauſe, and give them right againſt their xPet: 1117: more potent adverfaries, and Pome”. he expos you ſhould do fo * Pfal, roO, 8: 5: I9 * Love ye therefore the ſtranger z for ye were 246 9: ſtrangers in the land of Egypt. | th
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22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt * with three- {core and ten perſons: and now the LORD thy Gog * Gem: hath made thee * as the ſtars of heaven for multitude. at -
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T*Herefore thou ſhalt love the LORD thy God, and
'T keep his charge, and his ſtatutes, and his judg- ments, and his commandments alway.
2 And know « ye this day : for 1 ſpeak not with your children, which have not known, and which have not ſeen the chaſtiſement of the LORD your God, his great- neſs, his mighty hand, and his ſtretched-out arm :
a ( 5. e. ) Acknowledge and conſider it with diligence and thank-
fulnels. - id 1 "I And his miracles,and his a&ts, which he did in the
mid{t of Egypt, unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land. : 4 And what he did untothe army of Egypt,unto their horſes,and to their chariots,* how he made the water of the Red-ſea to overflow them,as they purſued after you, and bew the LORD hathdeſtroyed them unto this day 5:
b The effe& of which deſtru&tion continuerh to this day, in their weakneſs and fear, and our ſafety from all their further attempts againſt us. ; ;
5 And what he did unto you in the wilderneſs, unti
| ye came unto this place : ;
*Num.16. 6 And * what he did unto Dathan and Abiram the 31.827-3- ſons of Eliab, the ſon ef Reuben : how the earth opened Pſ196-17. per mouth,and ſwallowed themup, and their houſholds, | Ordiving 108 their tents, and allthe ||ſubſtance that F ves in their 5 poſſeſſion c, in the midſt ofall Ifrael : | has c Heb. 4+ their feet, i.e. under their power, Pſal. 8. 6. which Heb. was followed them or belonged to them. c «their fees 7 But your eyes have ſeen all the great acts © the ORD &4, which he did.
d All of them had ſeen ſome, and ſome of them had ſeen all the great things done in Egypr and at the Red-ſ?a, and in the Wilderneſs .
8 Therefore ſhall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be ſtrong, and go in, and poſleſs the land whither ye go to poſlels it:
9 And that ye may prolong yeur days in the land which the LORD ſware unto your fathers to give unto them, and to their ſeed, a land that floweth with miik and honey. | 3