Sermons preached

SERMON XVII.

DEUT. 30. 15. See, I have set before thee this day, Life and Good, Death and Evil.

Moses the Man of God having acquainted the People with the Tenor of God's Commandments, both concerning Worship and civil Conversation, doth enforce all by a pregnant Exhortation, laying before their Eyes the Blessings of Obedience, and the Plagues and Curses that should overtake them in case they should decline from the Ways of the Lord thus recommended to them. In all which he showeth himself not only as an ordinary Preacher speaking by way of Exhortation and Doctrinal Threatening, but as a special Prophet speaking by way of Prediction, and that with such clearness and certainty, that these few Chapters may be looked upon as an exact Calendar and Prognostication, wherein the good or bad days of this People are expressly calculated and foretold; yea, comparing Events with the Prediction, you would rather conceive Moses his Speech to be an Authentic Register, and Chronicle of what is past, than an infallible Prophecy of what was to come: nothing good or bad hath befallen this People from the beginning to this Day, but what is here foretold. What is more largely declared upon in this Exhortation, is contracted into a narrow room, and summary here in the Text, ⟨p. 324⟩See, I have set before thee this day, Life and Good, Death and Evil.

MOses the Man of God having acquainted the People with the Tenour of God's Commandments, both concerning Worship and civil Conversation, doth inforce all by a pregnant Exhortation, laying before their Eyes the Blessings of Obedience, and the Plagues and Curses that should overtake them in case they should decline from the Ways of the Lord thus recommended to them. In all which he sheweth himself not only as an ordinary Preacher speaking by way of Exhortation and Doctrinal Threatning, but as a special Prophet speaking by way of Prediction, and that with such clearness and certainty, that these few Chapters may be looked upon as an exact Kalender and Prognostication, wherein the good or bad days of this People are expresly calculated and foretold; yea, comparing Events with the Prediction, you would rather conceive Moses his Speech to be an Authentick Register, and Chronicle of what is past, than an infallible Prophecy of what was to come: nothing good or bad hath befallen this People from the beginning to this Day, but what is here foretold. What is more largely declared upon in this Exhortation, is contracted into a narrow room, and summary here in the Text,