p. 142 | EXTRACTS FROM SCOTT

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 22, 1859

EXTRACTS FROM SCOTT.

"EVERY useful work is beautiful in its season, but the more immediate exercises of religion belong specially to the sanctification of the Sabbath; and as the appointment itself is an external sign of the Lord's good will to sinful men; so our love to it, and delight in hallowing it, is a good internal evidence that he hath begun, and will continue, to sanctify our souls."—Scott's Observations on Ex. xxxi.

"The covenant made with Israel was a marriage covenant; idolatry was considered as adultery, and the name of God is Jealous, so that every approach to that sin would provoke him to jealousy. The idols of the nations were not characterized as jealous; at least in any degree. They were not supposed to be offended by their worshipers' paying occasional, or even stated homage to other deities, provided the number and value of the sacrifices offered to them were not diminished. Hence arose what has been called an intercommunity of the worshipers of different idols with each other; who scrupled not to worship the gods of other nations, especially when among them. But this Jehovah, the only living and true God, would not endure. Hence conscientious Israelites were universally counted bigots."—Scott's Notes on Ex. xxxiv, 14.

"Moses wrote in a book the judicial and ceremonial precepts that he had received; but God himself wrote the ten commandments, the substance of the moral law, on the tables of stone. This difference strongly marked the permanency and perpetual obligation of the moral law, and the inferior importance and temporary obligation of the ceremonial institutions; and even the judicial law, except as coincident with the moral law."—Scott's Notes on Ex. xxxiv, 27.