Leviticus 19

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. XIX.—In these peace-offerings let me behold Jesus, my peace-maker with God, and speedily receive and live on him by faith. In these gleanings let me observe what care God takes of the poor: nor can I have any true religion without a similar temper. Yea, let me think what gleanings of promises, and deeds of grace, for us poor strangers of the Gentiles, are left in every corner of the Jewish scriptures. In these forlorn trees, let me learn to avoid all rash desires of created enjoyments, or even honouring the Lord with first-fruits not arrived at their perfection. Let me never attempt to alter God’s frame of creatures; never attempt to mix works and grace; Jesus’ 16 righteousness and my own; his Spirit and my natural abilities; his truths and my own fancies; his ordinances and my own inventions. If I enjoy the directions of God’s word and Spirit, let me be ashamed to copy after heathen superstition; but let me carefully observe the positive institutions of my God, and never neglect the weightier matters of the law. If God has delivered his moral precepts so briefly, let me extend my meditations on them, and, in all my obedience, let me be influenced by the firm faith that the lawgiver is JEMOVAN, my God in Christ. Whatsoever is not of this faith is sin. Nor can my obedience be sincere without being universal to all his commandments