But if you obey God's law honestly, with a single eye and a whole
heart, you will find in it a blessing, and peace, and strength, and
everlasting life.
SERMON XV. DEUTERONOMY
(Third Sunday after Easter.)
Deut. iv. 39, 40. Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine
heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth
beneath: there is none else. Thou shall keep therefore his
statutes and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that
it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that
thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the Lord thy God
giveth thee, for ever.
Learned men have argued much of late as to who wrote the book of
Deuteronomy. After having read a good deal on the subject, I can
only say that I see no reason why we should not believe the ancient
account which the Jews give, that it was written, or at least spoken
by Moses.
No doubt there are difficulties in the book. If there had not been,
there would never have been any dispute about the matter; but the
plain, broad, common-sense case is this:
The book of Deuteronomy is made up of several great orations or
sermons, delivered, says the work itself, by Moses, to the whole
people of the Jews, before they left the wilderness and entered into
the land of Canaan; wherefore it is called Deuteronomy, or the
second law.
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