Deuteronomy:30

---

Seeker Overlay ON

* And it shall come to pass , when all these things are come upon thee , the blessing and the curse , which I have set before thee , and thou shalt (note :)By calling to mind both his mercies and his plagues .(:note ) call [them ] to mind among all the nations , whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee , * And shalt return unto the LORD thy God , and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day , thou and thy children , with all thine (note :)In true repentance there is no hypocrisy .(:note ) heart , and with all thy soul ; * Then the Lord thy God wil cause thy captiues to returne , and haue compassion vpon thee , and wil returne , to gather thee out of all the people , where the Lord thy God had scattered thee . * If [any ] of thine be driven out unto the outmost [parts ] of (note :)Even to the worlds end .(:note ) heaven , from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee , and from thence will he And bring you into your country . fetch thee : * And the Lord thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed , &amp ; thou shalt possesse it , and he will shewe thee fauour , and will multiplie thee aboue thy fathers . * And the LORD thy God will (note :)God will purge all your wicked affections , a thing that is not in your own power to do .(:note ) circumcise thine heart , and the heart of thy seed , to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart , and with all thy soul , that thou mayest live . * And the Lorde thy God will lay all these curses vpon thine enemies , and on them , that hate thee , and that persecute thee . * * And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand , in the fruit of thy body , and in the fruit of thy cattle , and in the fruit of thy land , for good : for the LORD will again (note :)He does not mean that God is subject to these passions , to rejoice , or to be sad : but he uses this manner of speech to declare the love that he has for us .(:note ) rejoice over thee for good , as he rejoiced over thy fathers : * Because thou shalt obey the voyce of the Lord thy God , in keeping his comandements , and his ordinances , which are written in the booke of this Law , when thou shalt returne vnto the Lord thy God with all thine heart &amp ; with al thy soule . * For this commandment which I command thee this day , it [is ] (note :)The law is so evident that no one can pretend ignorance .(:note ) not hidden from thee , neither [is ] it far off . * It is not in heauen , that thou shouldest say , Who shall go vp for vs to heauen , &amp ; bring it vs , and cause vs to heare it , that we may doe it ? * Neither [is ] it beyond the (note :)By heaven and the sea he means places most far distant .(:note ) sea , that thou shouldest say , Who shall go over the sea for us , and bring it unto us , that we may hear it , and do it ? * But the (note :)Even the law and the gospel .(:note ) word [is ] very nigh unto thee , in thy mouth , and in thy heart , that thou mayest By faith in Christ . do it . * Beholde , I haue set before thee this day life and good , death and euill , * In that I command thee this day (note :)So that to love and obey God , is only life and happiness .(:note ) to love the LORD thy God , to walk in his ways , and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments , that thou mayest He adds these promises to signify that it is for our profit that we love him , and not for his . live and multiply : and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it . * But if thine heart turne away , so that thou wilt not obey , but shalt be seduced and worship other gods , and serue them , * I pronounce vnto you this day , that ye shal surely perish , ye shall not prolong your dayes in the lande , whither thou passest ouer Iorden to possesse it . * I call heaven and earth to record this day against you , [that ] I have set before you life and death , blessing and cursing : therefore (note :)That is , love and obey God ; which is not in man 's power , but only God 's Spirit works it in his elect .(:note ) choose life , that both thou and thy seed may live : * By louing the Lorde thy God , by obeying his voyce , and by cleauing vnto him : for he is thy life , and the length of thy dayes : that thou mayest dwell in the lande which the Lorde sware vnto thy fathers , Abraham , Izhak , and Iaakob , to giue them .

---