MHCC 27: The God With Whom We Have To Do

Matthew Henry writes on Lev. 10.1 (the deaths of Nadab and Abihu):

For (as bishop Hall well observes here) "It is a dangerous thing, in the service of God, to decline from his own institutions; we have to do with a God who is wise to prescribe his own worship, just to require what he has prescribed, and powerful to revenge what he has not prescribed."

Bishop Joseph Hall, Contemplations on the Historical Passages of the Old and New Testaments, p. 67:

If God had enjoined ordinary fire, they had sinned to look for celestial. Now he commanded only the fire which he sent; they sinned in sending up incense in that fire which he commanded not. It is a dangerous thing, in the service of God, to decline from his own institutions. We have to do with a power which is wise to prescribe his own worship, just to require what he hath prescribed, powerful to revenge that which he hath not required.