Deuteronomy 29

Deuteronomy 29:1

TO make] That is to say, to new avouch it solemnely.

Deuteronomy 29:4

Hath not given you] God hath corporally punished your rebellions, by the evils and toyles, which you have undergone in the wilderness, and suffering (without applying any remedy thereunt) by a superabundant grace and patience, the malice of your hearts, to put out the light of your understandings: which is ordinary in man, Isay 63. 17. Ezech. 12. 2. John 8:43. Ephes. 4. 18. 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12.

Deuteronomy 29:6

That ye might know] Beeing thus fed by miracle without ordinary and naturall meanes.

Deuteronomy 29:9

That ye may] Consider wisely of all you do.

Deuteronomy 29:11

The 〈◊〉] This, and the next of fetching water, were employments for the vilest and most abject persons: see Joshua 9:27.

Deuteronomy 29:15

That is not] Namely our posterity.

Deuteronomy 29:16

For yee know] Since you have by experience knowne the abomination of idolatrie, and what cruell enemies it hath caused the Egyptians and other Nations to be unto you, youll no way participate of it: And how] with what dissiculties and assaults.

Deuteronomy 29:18

A root] Some secret seducer or plague that corrupteth the rest, or some inward inclination to idolatry, within your own hearts, which like an evill sprout, or bud may branch out into abominable effects: See Ezchiel 7. v. 10, 11. Hebrewes 12. 15.

Deuteronomy 29:19

Blesse himselfe] Dally with himselfe, upon the conceit of Gods grace and patience, against the expresse protestations joyned to his Covenant: See Psalme 49. 18. Jeremy 2. 0. Zach. 11. 5 To adde] For to take an occasion to satisfie to the full his unbridled inclination to Idolatry, which being fulfilled, bewitcheth a man to continue in it: even as thirst induceth a man to drunkennesse; yet drunkennesse doth not quench the thirst, but rather increaseth it, and maketh it even unquenchable: See Proverbs 23:35. Isay 56. 12.

Deuteronomy 29:24

The heat] What is the reason of it?

Deuteronomy 29:26

He had not] He had not given them leave to chuse for their proper deities, to worship as hee had done each Pagan Nation; but he himselfe by Covenant was the particular & peculiar God of his people, Psal. 16. 5. Isaiah 53:12 See Deuteronomy 4:19.

Deuteronomy 29:29

The secret things] Mans wisdome dependeth not on the curious searching out of Gods mystries, and hidden counsels, which he hath reserved for his own knowledge: but upon the true knowledge and execution of his Law, which he hath revealed: see Deuteronomy 4:6. Job. 28. 12. 28. Proverb. 1. 7. Eccles. 12, 13. 14.