Moses was God's Minister to instruct this People, and what doth he propose and confirm in his Doctrine, but Life and Death, Good and Evil? and this was a part of his Faithfulness. Witness that vehement Obtestation used, ver. 19. He calls Heaven and Earth to record, that he had faithfully discharged his Duty herein. This was the course that God himself took with Adam in Innocency, he set before him Life and Death, a Blessing and a Curse, the Tree of Life, and the Tree of Knowledge, Gen. 2. 9. That he might live by the one, and not perish by the other. God had respect to the Mutability of his Nature, and therefore restrained him by the threatening of Death as a curse not to eat of the one, as he enjoined him to eat of the other, as a Pledge of Life and Blessing. This same course did Christ take in his Sermons, by telling them of the wide Gate, and the strait Gate, the broad and narrow Way, much Company and little; the one tending to Destruction, the other to Life, Mat. 7. 13, 14. So Wisdom speaks by Solomon, Prov. 8. 35, 36. Whose findeth me, findeth Life, and shall obtain Favour of the Lord: but he that sinneth against me, wrongeth his own Soul; all they that hate me, love Death. So that you see this is an excellent way to gain Men to the Holy Life.
Moses was God's Minister to instruct this People, and what doth he propose and confirm in his Doctrine, but Life and Death, Good and Evil? and this was a part of his Faithfulness. Witness that vehement Obtestation used, ver. 19. He calls Heaven and Earth to record, that he had faithfully discharged his Duty herein. This was the course that God himself took with Adam in Innocency, he set before him Life and Death, a Blessing and a Curse, the Tree of Life, and the Tree of Knowledg, Gen. 2. 9. That he might live by the one, and not perish by the other. God had respect to the Mutability of his Nature, and therefore restrained him by the threatning of Death as a curse not to eat of the one, as he enjoyned him to eat of the other, as a Pledg of Life and Blessing. This same course did Christ take in his Sermons, by telling them of the wide Gate, and the strait Gate, the broad and narrow Way, much Company and little; the one tending to Destruction, the other to Life, Mat. 7. 13, 14. So Wisdom speaks by Solomon, Prov. 8. 35, 36. Whose findeth me, findeth Life, and shall obtain Favour of the Lord: but he that sinneth against me, wrongeth his own Soul; all they that hate me, love Death. So that you see this is an excellent way to gain Men to the Holy Life.
