Exodus

But God is described with seven eyes (Zechariah 3:9), to show that he sees all the plots and stratagems of the enemies, and when they deal proudly, he can be above them. Come, says Pharaoh, let us deal wisely (Exodus 1:10), and he never played the fool more, than when he thought…

The showers of blood have made her more fruitful. Julian. (Exodus 1:10): Come let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply. And that way they took to suppress them, made them multiply (Verse 12).

He raises his Church by bringing it low. The blood of the martyrs has watered the Church, and made it more fruitful (Exodus 1:12). The more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied: The Church is like that plant Gregory Nazianzen speaks of, [illegible], it lives by dying, a…

In general, Their hiding of the child was this: They kept him close, and unknown to the Egyptians for three months space; because the King had given commandment and charge to all his people, that they should drown every man-child born among the Hebrews. Exodus 1.22. In this acti…

1. In the increase of it within its own bounds. When the Israelites were most oppressed in Egypt, the more they multiplied (Exodus 1:20). When the dragon's fury did most swell against the woman, she brought forth a man-child (Revelation 12:1, 3, 4).

For that God gave those promises to Abraham without any regard to any preceding obedience is more fully acknowledged than to need proofs. Regarding this origin of the name of the Hebrews, those among the Jews who agree with us are: Josephus, Antiq., lib. i. cap. vi.; the Threefo…

We shall first open the words a little, and then speak to some doctrines from them, reserving the uses to the close of all. 1. Where it is said, He was oppressed, the word signifies to exact; and we find it three ways applied in Scripture: 1. To the exacting of tribute, as (2 Ki…

For in speaking, there should be a conformity, and consent, between the tongue, and the mind; which is not, when any lie is uttered. Secondly, it is objected, that the Egyptian Midwives, saved the male children of the Israelites: and Rahab the spies, by lying (Exodus 1:19; Joshu…

Others, by a new commandment, understand another diverse or different commandment; for Christ in the beginning of the chapter, had given them a commandment to flee pride, to be humble, to live at peace, and concord one with another: and then he says, But I give you a new command…

1. How clear is it to every mans observation, that the kindnesses and benefits any have done to the Lords people, have been rewarded with full measure into their bosoms? The Egyptian Midwives ressed to obey Pharaoh's inhumane command, and saved the Male Children of Israel: for t…

Their eye is evill, because God is good. Israel's increase is Pharaoh's trouble (Exodus 1:10). When Nehemiah comes to build the walls of Jerusalem, it grieved the enemy exceedingly, that one was come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel (Nehemiah 4:10).

The word which we translate increased, signifies not an ordinary increase, but such an increase as breaks the bounds; it signifies so to increase in such abundance, as that the former place where those things were, cannot contain nor hold them, but they must seek some new place,…

It is also a fault in this kind, to put servants to such toiling works as are fitter for beasts than men: or to oppress them with too much work, as the Egyptians oppressed the Israelites. Let God's hearing the cry of those servants so oppressed, and revenging their oppressors fo…

I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians. 5. If the Lord of Hosts be on our side, he can make the Churches affliction a means of her Augmentation, Exodus 1:12. The more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied.

9. He who Fears God had rather displease man than God. Exodus 1:17. The Midwives Feared God, and did not as the King commanded, but saved the Men-children alive.

There is their agreement to put Christ to death. In the Old Testament Pharaoh and his nobles (Exodus 1:10): Come on, [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that when there falls out any war, they join also to our enemi…

2. The officious lie, for the help and relief of others. Many instances of this we have in Scripture: Thus Rebekah teaches Jacob to lie that he might gain the blessing (Genesis 27), and the Egyptian Midwives saved the male children of the Israelites, by feigning they were delive…

Nehemiah did not convert the public treasures to his private use (Nehemiah 5:15), "so did not I, for I fear God." This grace, when it is hazardous to be faithful to men, makes us to slight the danger (Exodus 1:17), "The Midwives feared God, and did not as the King of Egypt comma…

Surely the wisdom, counsel and understanding of the creature can do nothing without him, nothing against him; not without him, for it is dependent: whatever the creature has, it comes from him; otherwise our understanding is but ignorance, our counsel rashness, our wisdom folly.…

9. Wisdom lies in a diligent endeavor to improve grace by temptation. As the Israelites were multiplied by being oppressed; it is said, The more they were afflicted, the more they grew; so a true Israelite, the more he is tempted, the more is his grace increased; as trees are th…

He ceases not until he sees his desire upon his [reconstructed: enemies], until he has his will of him. And if we view the expression of the Scripture, we shall see how hatred vents itself against such as be enemies, whose destruction it intends, partly by [reconstructed: force]…

No small portion of that fixed hatred, and hostility of the old Serpent, has ever since been discovered against the young ones of Christ's little flock. The multiplication of the Children of Israel, is the occasion why Pharaoh deals so wisely as we read; endeavouring first by th…

Not so much as our tears but they are bottled. Men may forget us, as Pharaoh did Joseph (Exodus 1), and the Shechemites Gideon (Judges 9:17), but God will not; our reward is sure, though not so speedy, as we desire; God here assures us of reward: the time he determines not. 3. D…

Christ's service is freedom; therefore the Apostle calls it a law of liberty (James 1:25). To serve God, to love God, to enjoy God, is the sweetest liberty in the world; Christ does not, as Pharaoh make his people serve with rigor (Exodus 1:13), but he lays upon them the constra…

Then the judge called to the jury, (who all this while stood by to hear and observe,) Gentlemen of the jury, you see this man about whom so great an uproar has been made in this town; you have also heard what these worthy gentlemen have witnessed against him; also, you have hear…

First, by force: and secondly, by fraud and deceit. So when the Egyptians became enemies to the children of Israel, and managed an enmity against them (Exodus 1:10), Pharaoh says, Let us deal wisely, or rather cunningly and subtly with this people; for so Stephen with respect to…

Steven tells us, that the King of Egypt dealt subtly or deceitfully with their kindred (Acts 7:19). How he did it we may see (Exodus 1); he did not at first fall to killing and slaying of them, but says, verse 10, Come, let us deal wisely; beginning to oppress them. This brings…

How many poor creatures, that think themselves wiser than Charchan, and Dedan, and all the children of the East, do spend and consume their days and time, in such ways as this, laboring night and day to set up, what God will pull down, and what he has said shall fall. Come on, l…

If the devil bids a man lie or cheat, he does not refuse; and which is worst, men are enslaved, and they willingly obey this tyrant; other slaves are forced against their will. Israel sighed by reason of their bondage (Exodus 2:23). But sinners are willing to be slaves, they wil…

Question. What is this [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], this filiation or Adoption? Answer. Adoption is the taking a stranger into the relation of a son and heir: So Moses was the adopted son of King Pharaoh's daughter (Exodus 2:10). And Esther was the adopted child of her cousin Mo…

Thus all sin's commands are unlawful, we cannot obey sin's law but by breaking God's law. 4. Other slaves are forced against their will: Israel groaned under slavery (Exodus 2:23). But sinners are content to be under the command of sin, they are willing to be slaves, they love t…

Thirdly, if it be for the safety of his life in a good cause. So Moses, Exodus 2:14-15, fled into the land of Midian, and there stayed, when Pharaoh sought his life: And Christ himself fled with his Father and Mother into Egypt, from the fury of Herod, Matthew 1. The like may be…

The Text says of him first of all, That when he was come to age, he refused to be called the son of Pharaohs daughter. How Moses became her son, we may read at large, Exodus 2: where it is said, that she having found Moses in the basket, preserved him alive, and brought him up a…

In the third signification we find the word (Isaiah 3), where the Lord says, that he would take away from Israel the prudent and the ancient, vezaken; that is, the worthies among them, and such as were respected for wisdom. The same word, (and peradventure in the same sense) is…

Most of the remarkable deliverances and restorations of the Church of God, that we have account of in the Scripture, were in answer to prayer. So was the redemption of the Church of God from the Egyptian bondage (Exodus 2:23 and 3:7). The great restoration of the Church in the l…

And he is all the more to be detested for this, that this trifler set out to defile the sacred oracles of God. Targum Onkelos has the Hebrew word for "Hebrew"; and at Exodus 2:6, it renders the Hebrew word for "Hebrews" as "Jews"; and at Deuteronomy 15:12, the phrase "your broth…

From there arises that fortitude; though the world rejects us as the scum of the world: for God holds us precious in his sight, in regard our cause is his own. Let us then with Moses, esteem the rebuke of Christ above all the riches of Egypt (Exodus 2:11; Hebrews 11:26). Let us…

Then is God wont to repent himself for his professing People, when their Strength is gone, and there is none shut up or left, and when they are brought to see that their false Gods cannot help them, and that the Rock in whom they trusted is vain; Deuteronomy 32:36, 37. Before Go…

Some knowledge of the true God, was retained as it should seem until now among some of them, being received by tradition from their fathers. Moses' father in law, was a priest of this country (Exodus 2:15, 16), not altogether unacquainted with Jehovah (Exodus 18), and was himsel…

As for your cavil at the oath ex officio, since you will needs draw it in by head and shoulders; however little it concerns us, I return you this answer — That, if any of our profession have in the pressing of it exceeded the lawful bounds, I excuse him not, I defend him not; le…

And doubtless such a one, and no other, was intended by Abraham's Servant for a Wife to Isaac when he prayed, that She [in non-Latin alphabet] which came forth to the water, might answer his token that he had fixed on. Again, it is used (Exodus 2:8) where Moses' Sister, who call…

We call it by the same name with the great vessel wherein Noah, and the seed of all living creatures were preserved. But their names are far distant in the original both in sound and signification, this was [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩], Aaron, a chest, it may be from [⟨in non-Latin…

If Christ as our high Priest have received the elect from the Father, "Yours they were, and you gave them to me"; and as Redeemer entrusted to bring them in, he must send the Gospel to them as Mediator, and intercede, that Apostles, Evangelists, Pastors, Teachers may be gifted w…

Meekness suffers the word of admonition, and takes it patiently and thankfully, not only from the hand of God that sends it, but from the hand of our friend that brings it. We must not be like the reprobate Sodomites (Genesis 19:9), or that pert Hebrew (Exodus 2:14), that flew i…

Indeed the mother herself was desirous to do it, and therefore appointed her daughter to watch who should take it up. These two circumstances imply that it pertains to a mother to nurse her children (Exodus 2:7, etc.). 5. The Apostle lays this down as a note of a good woman, who…

If a good servant does by occasion slip, and commit a fault, his master ought in wisdom either to take no notice of it: or with some mild admonition pass it over: and not deal with him as with a lewd, graceless servant. 4. When such servants (their covenanted time being expired)…

Something like a pity arising in his heart upon the sight of it; which the Scripture frequently ascribes to God, and we can best understand, as we consider the divine perfections shining forth in the human nature of Christ. (Exodus 2:24) He heard their groaning; and (Isaiah 63:4…

Secondly, we are accountable for our Houses, if they do not serve God. As the daughter of Pharaoh said to the mother of Moses, in Exodus 2:9: Take this child and nurse it for me, and I will give you your wages. Thus does the Lord say to us: Take these children, take these young…

Others hide their sins, like one who shuts up his shop windows but follows his trade within doors. Many deal with their sins as Moses's mother dealt with him — she hid him in the ark of bulrushes as if she had left him; but her eye was still upon him, and in the end she became h…

O how happy were England if it had more peacemakers! Abraham was a peacemaker (Genesis 13:8); Moses was a peacemaker (Exodus 2:13). And that ever-to-be-honored Emperor Constantine, when he called the bishops together at the first Council of Nicaea to end church controversies, an…

Weeping for sin is a sign of the new birth; as soon as the child is born, it weeps. Exodus 2:6: And behold, the baby wept. To weep sincerely for sin is a good sign we are born of God.

The same with that of Abraham (Deuteronomy 8:18): that he may establish his Covenant, which he swore to your fathers, as it is this day. When he is to deliver them out of Egypt (Exodus 2:24): and God heard their groaning, and remembered his Covenant with Abraham and Isaac and Ja…

Now the people and Levites, and house of David were never so multiplied in the Jews, after the deliverance from Babylon, and therefore must be extended to the New Testament. And if God establish David's seed forever (Psalm 89:4) and the seed of his people shall possess the gates…

4. Death will dry up a believer's tears, Revelation 7. 17. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; weeping is nothing but a cloud of sorrow gathered in the heart, dropping into water. A Christian often has none to keep him company, but his own griefs and sorrows; he s…

There lies in you some leaven of hypocrisy, that must needs be purged out, some root of bitterness, that must needs be weeded up, some thorns of covetousness, pride, vainglory, that must needs be cut down. Lo, my brother, you are come out of Egypt (Exodus 2), you have gone a gre…

(1 Timothy 6:16) Whom no man has seen, nor can see. When Moses and the Elders of Israel are said to have seen God, and Jacob to have seen him face to face (Exodus 2:9; Genesis 32:30), it is meant of an Angel covered with divine glory and majesty, as we shall see if we compare th…

Jacob the Patriarch fled from the presence of his brother Esau into Haran, to Laban (Genesis 27), and again, from there to the land of his fathers (Genesis 31). Moses, after he had slain the Egyptian, fled out of Egypt into Midian, where he lived 40 years (Exodus 2). And this wa…

In the Moral Law God himself gives a charge, God spoke all these words; therefore with what veneration should we attend? Moses was to put off his shoes from his feet (in token of reverence,) when God was about to speak to him (Exodus 3:5-6). 3. If God spoke all these words of th…

He is Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last (Revelation 1:8). No creature can write itself Alpha, that is only a flower of the crown of heaven (Exodus 3:14): I am that I am; namely, he who exists from and to eternity. Use 1. Here is thunder and lightning to the wicked; God is…

Three times I was beaten with rods; as if you should see a scullion whip the king's son. God beholds it (Exodus 3:7). I know their sorrows.

If a man were on the top of a high tower or theatre, he might from there see all the people below: God is in Heaven as in a tower or theatre, and he sees all the transactions of men. The wicked make wounds in the backs of the righteous, and then pour in vinegar; God writes down…

14. Vlt. There is kindness in affliction, in that it is a means to make us happy (Job 5:17): Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. This seems strange to flesh and blood that affliction should make one happy; when Moses saw the bush burning and not consumed, I will (says he…

Q. How else does the nature of God shew that there can be no more but one God? A. It is the nature of God to have his being of himself, and so give being to whatever else has being; for so much is signified by the word Jehovah (Exodus 3:14 & 6:3 & 15:3). Q. And how does this pro…

In these words is laid down a second reason, whereby is proved, that these Patriarchs died in the faith, seeking their country in heaven. The reason is drawn from the testimony of God himself, recorded by Moses in the book of Exodus, where God saith, He is the God of their Fathe…

1. Moses was the Internuntius between God and the people in this great transaction. On God's part he was immediately called to this employment (Exodus 3). And on the part of the people he was chosen and desired by them to transact all things between God and them, in the making a…

Quest. 3. The next question is, who is meant by Michael the Arch-Angel. Michael is the name of his person, and Arch-Angel of his office; Michael signifies, he is strong God, or who is like the strong God; and therefore some apply it to Jesus Christ, who in many places of Scriptu…

Objection 2. Exodus 3:5: God said to Moses, Stand far off and put off your shoes, for the place is holy. Now if holy places must be reverenced, then much more holy images, as the cross of Christ and such like.

1. Where God was pleased to afford the visible and extraordinary appearances and manifestations of his glory to the very eyes of his servants, such places were holy during the time of those manifestations. As when the Lord appeared to Moses in the burning bush (Exodus 3:5), the…

This was what He first made known to them when He first made it known to them, when He adopted the entire nation as His peculiar people and church — Exodus 3. For although the name YHWH had been known to all the faithful from the foundation of the world, God had never used it in…

Your Lord. This word Jehovah notes out his being eternal, infinite, beginning and ending of all things (Exodus 3:14; Revelation 1:8). By this it appeareth, this law appertaineth to all, because he is the Lord of all.

The name of God is his memorial among men, which being in his titles, most properly is given to them, whether drawn from his nature, as Jehovah the Lord, or his properties, just, holy, merciful, &c. The God of Abraham, Jacob, &c. (Exodus 3:15). Hence, because the Lord in excelle…

Position 5. Free grace is the loveliest piece in heaven or earth; it makes us partakers of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4). And though the creature graced of God keeps an infinite distance from God, and is not "Goded" nor "Christed," as some do blasphemously say, yet it is consi…

He now confirms the former sentence, and shows that the cause of this famine and barrenness shall be, in regard that thorns and briars shall grow upon the land; that is to say, the fields shall be laid fallow and barren, whereas before they were fat and fruitful. Now this must n…

Answer: I answer, there are two sorts of signs, one goes before, and leads us by the hand as it were to the thing promised, the other comes after and confirms it, that it may stick fast in our memories, never to be erased. As for example, when the Lord brought Israel out of Egyp…

First, she thinks she stands by her own power: secondly, she makes herself believe, that the rest of the world are not worthy to be compared with her: thirdly, she promises herself a rest unchangeable. For the first, none can say truly I am, but God only, to whom it belongs prop…

For there is here a close comparison between their deliverance out of Egypt, and this out of Babylon. For they fled by night out of Egypt, feigning as if they had only meant to have gone three days' journey to offer sacrifice to God (Exodus 3:5 and 8:27). Afterward, they went fo…

He calls them mercies of David, because this covenant which was now so solemnly confirmed, was made in David's hand. True it is that the Lord made the covenant first with Abraham (Genesis 15:5 and 17:7), and afterwards confirmed it by Moses (Exodus 3:15), and lastly he establish…

Besides, he did not aim at collecting all the passages of Scripture, as we see that the apostles do not always make use of the same proofs on the same subject. And yet we must not imagine that there were no good reasons why Christ seized on this passage (Exodus 3:6) in preferenc…

Hence they are apt to think the lowest room belongs to them: and their inward disposition naturally leads them to obey that precept of our Savior, Luke 14:10. It is not natural to them to take it upon them to do the part of teachers; but on the contrary, they are disposed to thi…

If we judge by that rule, we must conclude, the more apt and powerful the means are, the more successful and prosperous they must needs be; and where they are inept, weak, and contemptible, nothing can be expected from them: thus reason layes it according to the rules of nature;…

And for this end and purpose it is, that the Holy Ghost has affixed those notes of attention to the narratives of the works of Providence in Scripture: all which do invite and call men to a due and deep observation of them. So in that great and celebrated work of Providence, in…

Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he reveals his secrets to his servants the Prophets (Amos 3:7). When he is to send Moses for the deliverance of his people, he appears to him in a burning unconsumed bush (Exodus 3:2), a sign manifesting the presence of his power, to pres…

(Exodus 3:2-3) And he looked, and behold the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed; and Moses said, I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. IT is a common saying, and common sayings are generally founded on matter of fact, that i…

1. In, and by its institution and erection; he made, framed, set up, and appointed that Church state, and all the worship of God therein observed. He it was who appeared to Moses in the Wilderness (Exodus 3:5; Acts 7:32, 33), and who gave them the Law on Mount Sinai (Exodus 20;…

Who it was that appeared. Exodus 3:2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 14. God that appeared.

The thing itself in its existence it is true cannot be made so a sign; but it may in the promise and prediction of it. And many instances we have of things promised for signs, which were not to exist in themselves, until after the accomplishment of the things whereof they were s…

§ 31 The place they came to, is called the Wilderness of Sinai, v. 2. and so was the Mountain also it self whereon the glorious majesty of God appeared, v. 20. It was also called Horeb (Exodus 3:1): He came to the Mountain of God even to Horeb, where they were to serve God, v. 1…

It is a proverbial speech among us, What the eye sees not, the heart grieves not. And when the Lord would show how he was moved with the sufferings and knew the sorrows of his people in Egypt, he doubles it upon this sense, I have seen, I have seen, or I have surely seen the aff…

I have cryed unto you Jehovah. God gave out that name to his people to confirm their faith in the stability of his promises; Exodus 3. He who is BEING himself, will assuredly give being and subsistance to his promises. being to deal with God, about the promises of grace, he make…

Now we may see what reason there was for the words of the text, "The moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall endure forever and ever, and my salvation from generation to generation." Now we may see abundant reason…

This redemption was by Jesus Christ, as is evident from this, that it was wrought by him that appeared to Moses in the bush; for that was the person that sent Moses to redeem that people. But that was Christ, as is evident, because he is called the angel of the Lord, Exodus 3:2-…

S. 68. 41. Exodus 3:5. If all either places or times were in respect of God alike, therefore was it said to Moses by particular designation, This very place wherein you stand is holy ground? Why does the prophet David choose out of all the days of the year but one of which he sp…

1. Concl. Often God reveals himself. 1. To Moses waiting on his herding (Exodus 3), he appears to him in the bush: he reveals Christ to the Disciples while they are mending their nets: the Angels declare to the shepheards the birth of Christ while they attend their flocks, yet i…

If Christ as our high Priest have received the elect from the Father, "Yours they were, and you gave them to me"; and as Redeemer entrusted to bring them in, he must send the Gospel to them as Mediator, and intercede, that Apostles, Evangelists, Pastors, Teachers may be gifted w…

Exodus 3:13-14. And Moses said to God, Behold when I come to the children of Israel, and shall say to them, the God of your fathers has sent me to you, and shall say to me, what is his name; what shall I say to them? And God said to Moses, I AM, THAT I AM: And he said; thus you…

Exodus 3:13-14. And Moses said to God, Behold when I come to the children of Israel, and shall say to them, the God of your fathers has sent me to you, and shall say to me, what is his name; what shall I say to them? And God said to Moses, I AM, THAT I AM, &c.

Exodus 3:13-14. And Moses said to God, Behold when I come to the children of Israel, and shall say to them, the God of your fathers has sent me to you, and shall say to me, what is his name; what shall I say to them? And God said to Moses, I AM, THAT I AM, &c.

Exodus 3:13-14. And Moses said to God, Behold when I come to the children of Israel, and shall say to them, the God of your fathers has sent me to you, and shall say to me, what is his name; what shall I say to them? And God said to Moses, I AM, THAT I AM, &c.

Exodus 3:13-14. And Moses said to God, Behold when I come to the children of Israel, and shall say to them, the God of your fathers has sent me to you, and they shall say to me, what is his name; what shall I say to them?

Exodus 3:13-14. And Moses said to God, Behold when I come to the children of Israel, and shall say to them, the God of your fathers has sent me to you, and shall say to me, what is his name; what shall I say to them? And God said to Moses, I AM, THAT I AM, etc.

Exodus 3:13-14. And Moses said to God, Behold when I come to the children of Israel, and shall say to them, the God of your fathers has sent me to you, and they shall say to me, what is his name; what shall I say to them? And God said to Moses, I AM, THAT I AM, etc.

Exodus 3:13-14. And Moses said to God, Behold when I come to the children of Israel, and shall say to them, the God of your fathers has sent me to you, and they shall say to me, what is his name; what shall I say to them? And God said to Moses, I AM, THAT I AM, etc.

Exodus 3:13-14. And Moses said to God, Behold when I come to the children of Israel, and shall say to them, the God of your fathers has sent me to you, and they shall say to me, what is his name; what shall I say to them? And God said to Moses, I AM, THAT I AM, etc.

Exodus 3:13-15. 13 Moses said to God; behold, when I come to the children of Israel, and shall say to them; The God of your Fathers has sent me to you, and they shall say to me, What is his Name? what shall I say to them? 14 And God said to Moses, I AM THAT I AM. And he said, Th…

Exodus 3:13-15. 13 And Moses said to God: behold, when I come to the children of Israel, and shall say to them, The God of your Fathers has sent me to you, and they shall say to me, What is his Name? what shall I say to them? 14 And God said to Moses, I AM THAT I AM. And he said…

Exodus 3:13-15. 13 And Moses said to God; behold, when I come to the children of Israel, and shall say to them; The God of your Fathers has sent me to you, and they shall say to me, What is his Name? what shall I say to them? 14 And God said to Moses, I AM THAT I AM. And he said…

Exodus 3:13-15. 13 And Moses said to GOD; behold, when I come to the children of Israel, and shall say to them; The GOD of your fathers has sent me to you, and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say to them?

This Rod originally was that wherewith Moses fed the sheep of his Father-in-Law Jethro, in the wilderness, which he had in his hand when God called to him out of the Bush. And thereon God ordained it to be the token of the putting forth of his power in the working of miracles, h…

[〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], is to give light or knowledge by teaching; the same with [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] which therefore is so translated oft-times by the Greeks. As by Aquila (Exodus 4:12; Psalm 119:33; Proverbs 4:4; Isaiah 27:11) as Drustus observes. And it is so by t…

Plants that grow out of the Sun send up a longer stalk, but the fruit is worse: some Christians pitch all their care upon the growth of love, and take no pains to grow in knowledge; but this is not right, we should always follow on to know the Lord (Hosea 6:3). We read that Chri…

And visit their sins. God visits either in Mercies or Judgments, and in the godly visiting, it is to be understood concerning those things that seem'd before to be neglected, as in the 21. of Genesis, God visited Sarah when God seem'd to have neglected her: and so in Exodus 4. h…

Your faith toward God (1 Peter 1:21; Deuteronomy 1:32; John 3:12; Genesis 15:6; Daniel 6:23; Romans 4:3; Galatians 2:16; 2 Timothy 1:12). The word, promises, and Prophets and Apostles, are all creatures, and but media fidei, the means of saving faith: they are objectum quo (John…

And this has bin an vsuall dealing of God, with his own seruants. When Moses was called to deliver the Israelites, and was in the way, the Lord, for a defect in his family, comes against him; to destroy him, Exod 4:24. Da uid is annointed king of Israel: and withall Saul is rais…

For there is neither precept, nor fitting example for it in the word of God. The example of Zipporah is alleged (Exodus 4:28), who circumcised her child. Answer.

Let us therefore renounce all opinion of merit which is not to be found in us, that so we may wholly attribute all to God's free grace, who shows us no mean or common favor, when he vouchsafes to entitle us precious. In which respect he also calls us his firstborn (Exodus 4:22),…

And therefore it is well termed the power of God, indeed rather God himself. For so he said to Moses (Exodus 4): I will be in your mouth. And in (Psalm 81): Open your mouth wide: that is, show forth boldly, speak out, be hungry and I will fill it, I myself being present with you…

And not content simply to call them sons, sometimes he calls them his first begotten, sometimes his darlings. In Exodus the Lord says thus, Israel is my first begotten son, let my son go that he may serve me (Exodus 4:22). I am become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first…

That he would grant us, that we being delivered out of the Hands of our Enemies, might serve him without Fear, in Holiness and Righteousness before him, all the Days of our Lives. God often speaks of holy Practice, as the End of that great typical Redemption, the Redemption from…

Abigail was a discreet and vertuous Wman, but very unsuitably matched to a churlish Nabal; see 1 Samuel 25:25 What a temptation to the neglect of a known duty, prevail'd upon the renowned Moses, by the means of Zipporah his Wife? Exodus 4. 24, 25. David had his scoffing Michal,…

Hence they have a long story in their Midrash, or mystical exposition of the Pentateuch, on the last section of Deuteronomy, about Samael's coming to take away the life of Moses; whom he repelled and drove away with the Rod that had the Shem Hamphorash written in it. And the lik…

Thus some affirm that Saint Paul used sundry Expressions, (and they instance in 1 Corinthians 4:3, Colossians 2:18) that were proper to the Cilicians his Country-men, and not so proper as to the purity of that Language wherein he wrote; but as the first of the Expressions they i…

Secondly, for the families or principal houses of the fathers there were [in non-Latin alphabet], the elders who presided over them. These Moses and Aaron gathered together at their first coming into Egypt (Exodus 4:29). And these, as I said before, being the rulers of the first…

Lest Satan should cavil that God had touched him but lightly, he puts him into Satan's power and lets him do it himself, who would do it thoroughly. The hand (as we before noted) is put for power, and when anything is put into the hand, it is put into the power or disposition of…

And lastly, others detract from themselves out of a too bashful modesty, or to avoid some troublesome and unpleasing employments which they are called to. Thus we find Moses (Exodus 4:10) making many excuses, that he was not eloquent, but of slow tongue, and a slow speech; and a…

31. (1 Corinthians 12:27) They which belong to the mystical body of our Savior Christ, and be in number as the stars of heaven, divided successively by reason of their mortal condition into many generations, are notwithstanding coupled every one to Christ their head, and all to…

4. The actings of God in all created effects, especially his influences of grace are letten out immediately, both immediatione virtutis, & immediatione suppositi, by immeate concurring of his power and vertue, and by the personal (as it were) concurrence of himself, so the Lord…

Armor of proof shall be sure to be shot at. It should seem that his wife was none of the best humored women; for what a passion was she in, about the circumcising of her son, when she reproached him as a bloody husband, and we do not read of one word that he replied, but let her…

Moses had a privy sore which he was loath to disclose; and therefore when God would have sent him into Egypt, he pleads other things — insufficiency, want of elocution, that he was a stammerer, that he had not utterance. Yes, but his carnal fear was the main: therefore see how G…

As to the inward case, it is God that gives a spirit of courage and fortitude, and a mouth and wisdom which all the adversaries shall not be able to gainsay or resist (Luke 21:15). He will give it us in that hour, what we shall say, so God encourages Moses when he pleads his slo…

What shall I say? Moses was unwilling to do what God bade, on this very score in (Exodus 4:10): I am not eloquent. But the reply of God was, Go, and I will teach you what you shall say.

2. They are also in some measure acquainted with their own sinful infirmities and temptations. God is pleased to manage his treaty with sinners about the things which concern their peace, by men of like infirmities with themselves; and he is wont to make such as he sends upon th…

Usually when the Lord intends us some signal mercy, he fits us for it by some eminent trial. As Moses's hand was first leprous before it worked salvation (Exodus 4:6), so God may let his people be stricken with the cursings and revilings of men before he showers down some blessi…

Defect 2 A second Defect in the confession of sin to God is this, when men in prayer do confess many sins to God, yet do leave out their master and predominant sins: many men are large in confession, yet do leave out their master sins. Moses, though a good man, yet was faulty in…

Now adoption is two-fold, 1. External, whereby the Lord takes a people by outward covenant and dispensation to be his sons, and thus all the Jews were God's firstborn (Exodus 4:22), and to them did belong the adoption (Romans 9:4-5). And hence their children were accounted sons,…

6. It is against God's anger and displeasure at the sins of his own children, for God is really angry at his own children's sins, and why then does he not punish them for their sins? (Exodus 4:14) The anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses. (Deuteronomy 1:37) Also the Lord…

As he has framed all things by his wisdom, so he continues them, by his providence in excellent order; as is at large declared in that golden Psalms 104. And this is not bounded to any particular places, or things, but his eyes are in every place beholding the evil, and the good…

(10) We never read of a miracle wrought by God, but what was evident, and conspicuous to all, and evidently seen to be such. As when Moses his rod was turned into a serpent, and became a rod again (Exodus 4:2, 3). Such were the wonders of Egypt.

Q. 1. What is God's actual providence? A. The effectual working of his power, and Almighty act of his will, whereby he sustains, governs, and disposes of all things, men, and their actions, to the ends which he has ordained for them (Exodus 4:11; Job 5:10, 11, 12; Job 9:5, 6; Ps…

Q. 1. What is God's actual providence? A. The effectual working of his power, and almighty act of his will, whereby he sustains, governs, and disposes of all things, men, and their actions, to the ends which he has ordained for them (Exodus 4:11; Job 5:10, 11, 12 & 9:5, 6; Psalm…

God's will and ours are like the wind and tide when they are contrary; God wills one thing, we will another; God calls us to be crucified to the world, by nature we love the world; God calls us to forgive our enemies, by nature we bear malice in our heart; God's will and ours ar…

But let us come to temptations that are of a more particular and private experience: We murmur either for what we want, or for what we have lost, or for what we affect. First for what we want, as soon as we are straitened, we complain presently, this is not so bad as when we mur…

The reason they were without hope, was because they were without God, they denied a settled providence, and acknowledged a blind chance, and therefore could have no sound hope; so some understand it of denial of God's government. It might well give occasion to people to utter Ph…

In this we should delight and grow as the chiefest knowledge (Jeremiah 9:23, 24). Here is forbidden, first atheism, to persuade our heart there is no such true God in heaven (Psalm 14:1; Exodus 5:2); mockers of him and his works (2 Peter 3:4, 5, etc.); those that oppose themselv…

So when the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, were they humbled? In fact, their murmuring against Moses and Aaron (Exodus 5:20-22) testifies their pride: and in that miraculous deliverance, and greatest danger, when they were between Satan and the deep sea, they were not humbled…

In his laws he appoints our duty, in his providence he appoints their trials; to refuse either, is to question his sovereignty (Psalm 12:4): Who have said, With our tongues will we prevail, our lips are our own, who is Lord over us. (Exodus 5:2) And Pharaoh said, who is the Lord…

If things continue at one rate with us, we think our prayers are lost, and our hopes perished from the Lord: much more when things grow worse and worse, and our darkness and trouble encreases, as usually it does just before the break of day and change of our condition, then we c…

Thirdly, [in non-Latin alphabet] or priests, it may be in every private household, the first born, which are mentioned, and so called before the constitution of the Aaronical priesthood (Exodus 19:21). Besides these, there were officers who attended the service of the whole peop…

It is added, they hear not the voice of the oppressor. The word which we translate an oppressor, signifies by violence to compel one to work or to pay a debt; so the taskmasters, (Exodus 5) are said to compel the people with violence to go on about the work. The same word signif…

No, it's presently quenched. An unbroken Tyrant void of the spirit, when he heard that charge, Let my people go; They are my servants (says the Tyrant) not your people (Exodus 5:2). Who is the Lord that I should obey his voice, and let Israel go?

He who shows mercy on whom he will, and hardens whom he will, and that by a strong mighty will which no man can resist, he can find fault with no man, though he sin and harden his own heart; for his absolute sovereign will is far above me and my strength; but so does the Lord, s…

Expediency and inexpediency were great motives to him, to forbear things which were otherwise lawful: yet little is this regarded by many: for (1 Corinthians 10:33). 1. Many command things to the very utmost of their servants' strength, if not above it, (as Pharaoh) or else thin…

He doubles the burden. (Exodus 5:17) You are idle, etc. So that out of bondage of soul, they would not hearken to Moses.

God does not only give us counsel as a friend, but commands us as a sovereign; and so the second notion whereby the evil of sin is set forth, is that of disobedience and rebellion; and so it is a great injury done to God, because it is a depreciation and contempt of his authorit…

But why are the persecutors and the injurious called the proud? Answer 1. Because wicked men shake off the yoke of God, and will not be subject to their Maker, and therefore desist not from troubling his People (Exodus 5:2). Who is the Lord that I should obey his voice, and let…

2. Sin is contrary to all the names and attributes of God; it sets itself in opposition to them all. (1) It deposes the sovereignty of God, as much as in it lies; it will not that the King of Kings should be on the throne, and govern this world which he has made: it was by this…

The heir, as he is a child or babe, differs nothing from a servant, but is under tutors and governors; so we (says the apostle) were in bondage, etc. To be under tutors, is all one as to be under a schoolmaster, and that's to be in a condition of bondage: Many go to school with…

This is the guise of every graceless heart in the commission of sin; so Pharaoh — who is the Lord? I know not the Lord, nor will I let Israel go (Exodus 5:2). In the time of their prosperity see how the Jews turn their backs and shake off the authority of the Lord: we are Lords…

Pharaoh soon bethought him what consequence might follow upon this, and cunningly labors to prevent by doubling their task: Ye are idle, ye are idle, therefore ye say, Let us go, and do sacrifice to the Lord. Go thorefore and work, Exodus 5:17, 18. As if he had said, Have you so…

(6) And vain stoutness to dare God in his own quarters and fight him (Exodus 14:8, 23; Exodus 23:8, 13; Isaiah 36:10-11, 36-37), if it were in his own seas as Pharaoh and the Egyptians would do. 13. There is a wicked hardening of the heart, when men make the Lord his word and mi…

Lastly, I say, that though a man is sure of victory, and that his cause is never so good, and that he goes on a good ground, yet God may in his wisdom so dispose of the matter, that he may lose the victory for a time, as we see the Israelites, in a good cause were foiled twice b…

The law setting upon him in this condition by all the ways forementioned, brings him into great trouble and perplexity, fear and terror, but delivers him not at all. So that it is with the soul, as it was with the Israelites when Moses had delivered his message to Pharaoh, they…

We can mourn as doves, but not pray or praise God. We are so discomposed that we are not fit to hearken to any good counsel (Exodus 6:9). Israel were so full of grief under their present burdens, that they minded not what Moses said, though he came with a message from God to the…

'You have always suspected,' says carnal reason, 'that you were a child of wrath and that you and God were enemies; but now you find it put out of question, and that from God's own mouth, who speaks grievous things against you; you have it also under his own hand, for lo he writ…

The third direction I give to such is that they keep and lend one ear as well to hear and consider what makes for their comfort as to what may make against them. This direction meets with a great infirmity of such as are in distress, who through Satan's temptations have their he…

In opposition to all these gods, and renunciation of them, Melchisedec professed himself the priest of the most High God; as Paul preached at Athens the unknown God in opposition to all their known [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩], or idols whom they supposed themselves acquainted with…

Therefore the Apostle on this occasion mentions him by his name, He who was promised of old that he should come, upon whose coming the faith of the Church was built, by whom and at whose coming they expected the last revelation of the will of God, and consequently a change in th…

She will admit no comfort, her disease is curable by no other means but the restoration of her children; give her them again and she will be quiet, else you speak into the air, she regards not whatever you say. Thus Israel in the cruel bondage in Egypt, Moses brings them the gla…

Not that the day of Judgment shall shortly approach and come soon after the Ascension of Christ, but because that after this preaching of the Gospel of Christ, there should be none other: And that we should not look for any further revelation, or more manifestation of grace, tha…

And they principally respected these three heads. First, That they should possess the Land of Canaan, and there enjoy that worship which he had prescribed to them (see Exodus 6:4; chapter 34:10, 11; Leviticus 26:8, 9; Deuteronomy 18:18; chapter 29:13; Psalm 105:10, 11). Secondly…

7. Adherence to God (Deuteronomy 10:20). 8. To swear by the name of God (Exodus 6:13; Deuteronomy 10:20). 9. To walk in the ways of God (Deuteronomy 28:9).

Neither does God call us to trust in any name of his however declared, or revealed, unless he gives it us in an especial manner, by way of covenant to rest upon. So he speaks, Exodus 6:3. I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and to Jacob () in the name of God Almighty, but by my…

This is the first expression, whereby God did ever show himself in his Essence. God has before made himself known by his All-sufficiency, (Exodus 6:3). I appeared to Abraham; to Isaac, and to Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH, was I not known to them.

The Saints Purgatory is in this life. But there are two things may bear up their Spirits. 1. Every Groan of theirs goes to Gods Heart, Exodus 6:7. I have heard the Groanings of the Children of Israel.

A person fainting under afflictions and troubles, is wholly unable to [reconstructed: receive] any means to support him. So here, when men's thoughts are hurried with apprehension of evil, which in the most dreadful manner are presented to their view, and their hearts possessed…

Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, whose faith God tried above most of his Saints before or since, for not one of those great things which were promised to them, did they live to see performed in their days; and how does God make known himself to them for their support, but by displaying…

Now the people and Levites, and house of David were never so multiplied in the Jews, after the deliverance from Babylon, and therefore must be extended to the New Testament. And if God establish David's seed forever (Psalm 89:4) and the seed of his people shall possess the gates…

For godly sorrow is always mixed with — indeed proceeds from — faith, which, in the apprehension of mercy, yields matter of joy to dilute the bitterness of our tears. But if we have no hearts to pray, if our sorrow makes us spiritually both dumb, so that we cannot speak to God,…

Eccles. 11:2. Give a portion to seven and also to eight, that is, distribute your charity to many; and which is nearest to this (Job 40:5), Once have I spoken, but I will not answer: yea twice, but I will proceed no further; that is, I have had several discourses with my friends…

Conceive of this thus: God in Christ is the complete object of faith under a double notion; first as sufficient, in being all we want to us; secondly, as efficient, in communicating all to us, and doing all for us. In the first respect, he is Elshaddai, in his promise; in the se…

By his works of creation, and government of the world, of redemption, etc. Thus the Lord revealed himself to Moses (Exodus 6:14), I AM has sent me to you: that is, one which has his being in himself, and of himself, that gives being to all creatures by creation, and continues th…

Q. 5. What are the names of God? A. Glorious titles, which he has given himself, to hold forth his excellencies to us, with some perfections, whereby he will reveal himself. (Exodus 3:14, 15; Exodus 6:3; Exodus 34:6, 7; Genesis 17:1.) Q. 6. What are the attributes of God?

Abraham prayed for Abimelech, Genesis 20:17-18, and, God healed him and his family of barrenness. At Moses' prayer, God's judgments were taken from Egypt: Exodus 7:12, 13, 30, and his wrath appeased toward his people, Exodus 32:11, 14. And some think that Stephen's prayer at his…

And the scriptures elsewhere, use the like phrases of God. (Exodus 7:3) God is said to harden Pharaoh's heart. (2 Samuel 24:1) The Lord moved David to number the people.

Thirdly, similitude is a great hindrance. Exodus 7:22, Pharaoh's heart was hardened because the Magicians did the same miracles that Moses and Aaron did; so similitude hinders men from embracing the ways of Christ, and God. Men seeing Papists' austerity like our mortification, t…

And the Scriptures elsewhere, use the like phrases of God. (Exodus 7:3) God is said to harden Pharaoh's heart. (2 Samuel 24:1) The Lord moved David to number the people.

Again, the devil can delude the outward senses, as the hearing, and the sight. Thus Jannes and Jambres turned their rods into serpents, before Pharaoh, and brought frogs, by deceiving the eye, and not in truth (Exodus 7 and 8). Thus the witch of Endor made a counterfeit of Samue…

Witchcraft: The word [illegible] properly signifies poisoning: but here it is fitly translated witchcraft: because all poisoning is comprehended under murder which follows. And the Magicians of Egypt (Exodus 7) are called [illegible] in the translation of the Seventy: as also th…

The former is expressed (Exodus 28:1): And take you to you Aaron your Brother and his Sons, that they may minister to me in the Priests Office. Aaron was the elder brother of Moses, born three years before him (Exodus 7:7), and was now eighty four or eighty five years of age, wh…

The word "destroy" signifies to swallow up or to devour: you have it (Genesis 41:4), where it is said, that the seven lean ears and seven lean kine did devour or eat up the seven full ears and the seven fat kine. And (Exodus 7:12) the text says, that Moses his rod did swallow up…

For the full discovery of the first, I shall consider it in that eminent instance, wherein of old he did grant his presence to his people. The bottom of that stupendous undertaking of the Israelites in leaving Egypt, and journeying through the wilderness into Canaan, lay in the…

- 1. Hardness and blindness. - 2. Unbelief. - 3. Deadness. - 4. Security. - 5. Irreligious profaneness and Atheism. - 6. Inconstancy. - 7. Deceitfulness. - 8. Pride. - 9. Worldly-mindedness. - 10. Fiery zeal. - 11. Uncleanness. - 12. Malice and hatred. - 13. Worldly sorrow. - 14…

God so withdraws his influence that in the same act, the man is unexcusably willing to want it. He is deservedly cold, who joyfully and willingly yields to the pulling away of his coat; here that is true, an injury is not done to a man who receives it as a favor: Volenti non fit…

Run down religion? In the name of my great master, I defy all the powers of hell and earth to run it down: they may sooner run down the flowing tide, or the sun when he goes forth in his strength, than run down the least of the dictates of eternal truth, not one jot or tittle of…

(6) And vain stoutness to dare God in his own quarters and fight him (Exodus 14:8, 23; Exodus 23:8, 13; Isaiah 36:10-11, 36-37), if it were in his own seas as Pharaoh and the Egyptians would do. 13. There is a wicked hardening of the heart, when men make the Lord his word and mi…

14. And upon this account there is required a deadening of our hearts to shipping and trading with diverse mighty nations, as we see in the case of Tyre (Ezekiel 27), of Babylon (Revelation 18:11-13; Jeremiah 51). So are we to be mortified to fair houses (Isaiah 5:8), stately ci…

But this were most horrible blasphemy, to match the devil with the Son of God, and his finite power with the power of the Godhead, by which miracles are worked. And the truth is, Satan can work no true miracles; neither does the text import that the magicians did that which they…

In the Old Testament we read of Balaam (Numbers 23), who though he be called a Prophet, because he was so reputed of men, yet indeed he was a notorious Witch, both by profession and practice, and would have shown his cunning in that kind upon the Israelites, if God had not [reco…

For the Greeks do call young men by the name of [in non-Latin alphabet], and the Latins by the name of [pueri], boys, or children. The eighth allegation: Exodus 7 — it is said (v. 19) that all the waters in Egypt were turned into blood, by Moses and Aaron; and yet v. 22 it is sa…

By what reasons are they confuted? (1) Because, the Scripture says, God blinds their eyes, and hardens their hearts, even actively, and judicially (John 12:40; Exodus 7:3; Deuteronomy 2:30; Romans 9:18). (2.) Because, God is said to punish one sin, with another (Romans 1:24, 26,…

Objection. But is it not said, that God hardened Pharaoh's heart, here's more than God's bare permitting of sin? Answer. God does not infuse evil into men, only he withdraws the influence of his graces, and then the heart hardens of itself, even as light being withdrawn, darknes…

Q. What else may be a further proof that there is a God? A. That there is a God is manifestly declared by the strange and wonderful plagues and judgments, that sometimes are inflicted upon notorious sinners upon earth (Exodus 8:19 & 9:16; Psalm 9:16 & 58:10-11 & 79:10). Q. What…

Fourthly, false experiments hinder us much; some experiments of the works of God, that should draw us nearer to him, if we make false use of them, make us farther from him; as if God afflict and restore again, or keep us from affliction, our hearts are hardened. Exodus 8:15, whe…

Pharaoh was willing to consent to that; but would have it done without his parting with the people: Go sacrifice to your God in the Land, says he, Exodus 8:25. So many sinners are for contriving to serve God, and enjoy their lusts too.

Lions destroy the strange nations in Samaria (2 Kings 17:25). Frogs, lice, boils, hail, rain, thunder, lightning, destroy the land of Egypt (Exodus 8, 9, 10). Locusts are his mighty army to punish Israel (Joel 2:25).

So that if any especial sort of men are intended in this expression, it is not Israel, but other men. And indeed this word is commonly used to denote mankind in general; as Genesis 6:3, chapter 9:6, Exodus 8:18, chapter 9:10, chapter 13:2, and universally, where ever it is used,…

In this we have, 1. The mean applied and made use of. 2. The manner of application. (For that the worker is the Beloved himself, is clear) The mean in his hand, which in Scripture signifies three things, when attributed to God, 1. His Omnipotence, whereby he does what he pleases…

- 1. Hardness and blindness. - 2. Unbelief. - 3. Deadness. - 4. Security. - 5. Irreligious profaneness and Atheism. - 6. Inconstancy. - 7. Deceitfulness. - 8. Pride. - 9. Worldly-mindedness. - 10. Fiery zeal. - 11. Uncleanness. - 12. Malice and hatred. - 13. Worldly sorrow. - 14…

God so withdraws his influence that in the same act, the man is unexcusably willing to want it. He is deservedly cold, who joyfully and willingly yields to the pulling away of his coat; here that is true, an injury is not done to a man who receives it as a favor: Volenti non fit…

The Devil is very jealous of the first beam of light which breaks into the heart, and of every ordinance which conveys it; therefore sets corruptions at work, that it may appear to be a vain hope of ever escaping his clutches: So men are tired, and give over, and think it is to…

1. Rational, Hosts of men: these are under Gods command and conduct, they stir not without his Warrant: the Lord has the managing of all Martial affairs: not a stroke is struck, but God orders it: not a Bullet flies but God directs it. 2. Irrational, God can raise an Army of Fli…

And we serve God when we render to Him his appointed worship. This was intended in (Exodus 8:1): Let my people go, that they may serve me. We serve Him when we observe the ordinances of God, when we adore him according to the rules of His Word in His House, and wait upon him in…

There has ever been as great a contestation among people about religion, as about any thing. Exodus 8:25, 26. Pharaoh bade Moses sacrifice in the land: but Moses said it is not meet so to do, for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians: lo, shall we sacrifice the abo…

'Tis with long accustomed sinners, as with those who have sate long under a Government, they rather like to be as they are, (though but ill on it) then think of a change, or like those who in a journey have gone out of their way all the day, will rather take any new way, overhed…

(6) And vain stoutness to dare God in his own quarters and fight him (Exodus 14:8, 23; Exodus 23:8, 13; Isaiah 36:10-11, 36-37), if it were in his own seas as Pharaoh and the Egyptians would do. 13. There is a wicked hardening of the heart, when men make the Lord his word and mi…

Natural causes work more strongly under opposition, the fire burns most vehemently in winter frost, and the internal heat of the body is most mighty for concoction, when the coldness of the air is most piercing without, faith sees God most piercingly at midnight in Job, when rot…

The Magicians of Egypt did some wonders in show like to the miracles wrought by Moses and Aaron, and that for a time, by changing a rod into a serpent, and water into blood, and by bringing frogs through the sleight and power of the devil. But when it pleased God, to terminate t…

For they could not by all their power and skill, preserve themselves from the plagues of Egypt, as the botch and other judgments (Exodus 9:11), which was a more easy thing, than to make or change a creature. In fact, they were not able to bring forth lice by their enchantment, w…

Now mark the issue of all: when Pharaoh saw that he had rest given him, he hardened his heart and listened not to them, as the Lord had said. This is the ordinary and common repentance that most men practice in the world (Exodus 8:8; Exodus 9:27; Exodus 10:16; Exodus 8:15). Desp…

Thirdly, sometimes God so far leaves men to themselves, as only to propound to them good objects, yet such as he knows they will make an ill use of, sometimes his patience and long suffering (Romans 2:4, 5; Ecclesiastes 8:11). Pharaoh, when he saw that he had rest, he hardened h…

And for those who mock and scoff at it in others, what do they but strike the Prophets and Apostles through their loins, whom they scoff at. The time may come when they would be glad of their prayers, whom in their prosperity they mocked, even as Pharaoh was glad of the prayers…

Even the hairs of our head are numbered, he clothes the lilies and grass of the field which is to be cast into the oven (Luke 12:27, 28). Behold his knowledge, and care of them, again he used frogs, and lice, for the punishment of the Egyptians (Exodus 8), with a gourd, and a wo…

For in the Apostle's times, and long after, magistrates were persecutors of the Church of God, and hindered the members of Christ to live in peace and godliness (1 Timothy 2:1-2). (9) Because, Moses cried to the Lord in behalf of Pharaoh (Exodus 8:12), Abraham prayed to God for…

This wrath is very dismal; it is this wrath of God that embitters afflictions in this life: when sickness comes attended with God's wrath, it puts conscience into an agony. The mingling the fire with the hail made it so terrible (Exodus 9:24); so mingling God's wrath with afflic…

Hypocrites pray more against temporal evils than spiritual. Pharaoh prayed more to have the plague of hail and thunder removed, than his hard heart should be removed (Exodus 9:28). The Israelites prayed, Tolle Serpentes, Take away the serpents from us more than to have their sin…

To rise up, or to be raised up, is used indefinitely concerning any one that attempts any new work, or is made eminent for any end good or bad. In the latter sense God is said to raise up Pharaoh to show his power in him, that he might magnify his glorious power in his punishmen…

3. God leaves them to follow the course of their own hearts: he does not incline and compel their wills, or infuse evil to them, only suffers them to follow the carnal bent, and corrupt ambition of their own hearts (Hosea 4:17), let him alone (1 Kings 22:22), Go forth and do so…

Can that Traitor be accounted happy that is fed in prison by the Prince with better dishes than many a loyal subject has at his table, but only to keep him alive for his Trial, and a public example of justice? God raises some for greater falls: Miserable was the felicity of Phar…

When the matter bears a clear exception, and other Scriptures expound it, then surely Christ's dying for all must be expounded as his giving himself a ransom for many (Matthew 20:28, compared with 1 Timothy 2:6). So the law says all do that which the most part do; men's will doe…

In that the false Apostles are saide to be ielous, or zealous, we see how nature can counterfeit [〈◊〉] grace of God: and that which the child of God does by [〈◊〉] that the naturall man can doe by nature. Thus Pharao fa[〈…〉] repentance, Exod 9:27. and Ahab, that sold himselfe to…

It is evident that there are Counterfeits of all Kinds of gracious Affections; as of Love to God, and Love to the Brethren, as has been just now observed: So of godly Sorrow for Sin, as in Pharaoh, Saul, and Ahab, and the Children of Israel in the Wilderness; Exodus 9:27, 1 Samu…

But from time to time he broke his promises, when he saw there was respite. When God filled Egypt with thunder and lightning, and the fire ran along the ground, then Pharaoh is brought to confess his sin with seeming humility, and to have a great resolution to let the people go,…

And v. 18. he is expressly called the Son of man, whom you made strong for your self; and hereunto does Aben Ezra refer the word in the foregoing verse. And for that expression, let your hand be upon the man of your Right hand; he observes, whenever Jad the hand, that is the han…

The grammarians express it, sometimes more generally, a filthy scab; sometimes more particularly, an ulcer, a boil, sometimes a leprosy, it is indeed any foul disease breaking out upon the body. The same word is used (Exodus 9:10), where it is said, that God smote the Egyptians…

If you do well, shall you not be accepted? So the Lord speaks to Pharaoh (Exodus 9:17): As yet exaltest you yourself against my people, that you will not let them go? Deuteronomy 32:6. Do you thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise?

As he did it upon the old Roman world (Revelation 6:16), and this also he does two ways. 1. By calling out here and there an eminent opposer, and making him an example to all the world, so he dealt with Pharaoh, for this cause have I raised you up (Exodus 9:16). So he does to th…

Faithfulness is to us, and for our good. Pharaoh could own justice (Exodus 9:27): The Lord is righteous, but I and my people are wicked. But it's a higher thing to own faithfulness; that supposes faith, as the other does conviction.

What promises and resolves did Pharaoh make against that sin of detaining God's people? Says he, I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice to the Lord; and again, I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer (Exodus 9:28). And yet Saul and Pharaoh both perished in…

The soul comes easily to give way to the authority of the truth, that would take any sinful lust away. To the like purpose is that of Job (Job 23:16) when the armies of God's indignation had encamped against him, and the terrors of the Lord had drunk up his spirit; says he, God…

Had God brought Israel out of Egypt in the time of those Kings which knew Joseph, most likely they might have had a friendly departure and an easie deliverance, but God reserves this for the reigne of that proud Pharaoh, who shall cruelly oppress them, and venture his Kingdom, b…

Now Moses shows that the Egyptian Enchanters could not do a lesser thing than the turning of rods into true serpents, or waters into blood. For they could not by all their power and skill, preserve themselves from the plagues of Egypt, as the botch and other judgments (Exodus 9:…

'Tis vain to confess, we have done those things which we ought not to have done, and continue still in doing so. Pharaoh confessed he had sinned, (Exodus 9:27). But when the thunder ceased, he fell to his sin again, verse 33.

Now mark the issue of all: when Pharaoh saw that he had rest given him, he hardened his heart and listened not to them, as the Lord had said. This is the ordinary and common repentance that most men practice in the world (Exodus 8:8; Exodus 9:27; Exodus 10:16; Exodus 8:15). Desp…

Again consider this, that though we read of wicked men that have made great confession of sin to God, yet we never read in the Scripture that wicked men ever made conscience to confess sin to God in secret. Pharaoh (you know the story) confest his sin to Moses and to Aaron, but…

God's will stands in the people's way, bidding them return, they answer: There is no hope but we will walk after our own devices. Hell, vengeance, omnipotency, crossed Pharaoh's will, but it would neither bow nor break (Exodus 9:27). But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart, that h…

The consideration hereof, how would it humble a man's soul in the sight of God? There is no means in the world so effectual to break the heart of a man kindly, as this is; it was the last means God used with Pharaoh (Exodus 9:16-17). I have raised you up, says God, to show my po…

Either of these answers may satisfy, but specially the latter. The ninth allegation: Exodus 9:6 — Moses says, that all the beasts in Egypt died of the murren, and yet v. 25, in the seventh plague, it is said, the beasts were killed with thunder, and hail, and lightning, both whi…

Beneficium postulat officium: The deepest springs yield the sweetest water: and hearts deeply sensible of God's deliverances yield the sweetest praises. Moses tells Pharaoh, when he was going out of Egypt, We will go with our sheep and our cattle (Exodus 10:9). Why so?

Pride and lust darken the glory of the soul: A sinner's heart is a dark conclave, it looks blacker than hell. 3. A natural man is under the darkness of misery; he is exposed to divine vengeance; and the sadness of this darkness is, that men are not sensible of it; they are blind…

Therefore the wicked man, being troubled only with the sting and smart of sin — pull that sting out, take that load off, and he is well enough, as cheerful and pleasant as ever. It being present ease he seeks, he confesses his sin and does anything for the present to come out of…

But malefactors flee for fear of due punishment. Moses departed with courage and boldness, and therefore fled not as a malefactor: for he feared not the King, as appears plainly in the History; for, though Pharaoh had said unto him, Exodus 10.28 Get you gone, see you see my face…

And shall not we mourn for God the Sun of the intellectual world? Pharaoh was most affrighted with the plague of darkness (Exodus 10:4). Yes, the devils themselves are sensible of the loss of the light of God's countenance.

Take Moses in his own case, and his conduct toward men, as they had respect to himself, and then he was a meek man, soon persuaded. Yet the same Moses, when he saw the matter concerned the cause of God, he is so stiff and immovable, as that he will not yield one jot — he will no…

Distributing to the necessities of the Saints. The two latter sorts, (being principally meant in this place) are not to be borne by dissembling of them, or yeelding to them▪ much lesse by bolstering men vp in them, or by partaking with thē; For albeit the adulterer and vncleane…

Verse 3. I clothe the heavens with darkness, and make a sack their covering. He also mentions the thick darkness which was spread over the whole land of Egypt for the space of three days (Exodus 10:22), for then the heavens were in a manner clothed with mourning weeds, because a…

But God respects none of all these, he deals in all things with indifference, be the persons never so high of calling. So did he in Egypt slay the child as well of the king, as of the poorest shepherd (Exodus 10). And therefore the Apostle here warns us that we looking for the l…

So do many hypocrites with respect to their sins. Afterwards Pharaoh consented to let the Men go, if they would leave the Women and Children; Exodus 10:8, 9, 10. And then after that, when God's hand was yet harder upon him, he consented that they should go, even Women and Childr…

If God call Israel out of Egypt to serve him, shall Pharaoh assign who, and how they shall go, first men only, then all without their cattle? No, says Moses, we will go as God calls (Exodus 10:26). Was not one main end of the late tumults, to rob God's people of their privileges…

We must charge it on him who was the contriver and director of all this mischief; Satan, Prince of the air, raised up this mighty wind. Winds are said sometimes to come from God; as (Exodus 10:13) the Lord brought an East wind upon the land of Egypt that it was covered with locu…

Great services require great strength, that we may neither be weary of, nor weary in the Lord's work, we must lay in much, that we may lay out much for God, we know not what God will call us to use. When Israel was to go out of Egypt, Moses would take the cattle, and not leave a…

Does the Spirit of God convince the consciences of his people, of the evil of sin (Romans 7:9)? Hypocrites have their convictions too (Exodus 10:16): Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you. Thus was…

It speaks much grace in Josiah (2 Kings 22:19) to feel and suffer, with softness and tenderness of a meekened and a tamed heart, the smart and pain of the influences of the threatening law. And it is prevalency of grace for Hezekiah (Isaiah 39) to stoop to the like and to say, g…

Indeed, Lord, and if ever my Conscience, which by rebellion is now grown silent, should be in judgment awakened in this life, Oh what an Hell should I have within me! how would it thunder and roar upon me, and surround me with terrors! Your word assures me, that no length of tim…

The second scruple about singers is, whether women may sing as well as men. For in this point there be some that deal with us, as Pharaoh dealt with the Israelites, who though he was at first utterly unwilling that any of them should go to sacrifice to the Lord in the wilderness…

I told you before that in conviction, when the heart is thoroughly convicted, it lies still under the work of God, but here the heart opposes the word of God. (Exodus 10:28) says Pharaoh to Moses, "Get out of my sight — the day you see my face you shall die." Moses says, "I will…

That he reared up a wall of separation between Jew and Gentile (Ephesians 2:11, 14). That light is in Goshen, and darkness in all the parts of Egypt besides (Exodus 10:22-23). That to the Jews were committed the oracles of God (Romans 3:1).

If God has the mattins, he looks for the vigils, and thus he is content the day should be divided. Does conscience presse a reformation and change of the sinners course, rather than faile, he'll grant that also: yet as Pharaoh when he yielded they should go, he meant their littl…

The multiplication of the Children of Israel, is the occasion why Pharaoh deals so wisely as we read; endeavouring first by the Midwives, secretly to destroy the male Children: and after that, more openly by an [illegible] to drown them in his Egyptian waters; for which whatever…

Never feare the equity of what God sets you upon; no excuses of disability or any other impediment, ought to take place, the Lord can and will supply all such defects. This was Moses case (Exodus 10:14): Oh Lord (says hee) I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since you hav…

Now mark the issue of all: when Pharaoh saw that he had rest given him, he hardened his heart and listened not to them, as the Lord had said. This is the ordinary and common repentance that most men practice in the world (Exodus 8:8; Exodus 9:27; Exodus 10:16; Exodus 8:15). Desp…

When Christ, knocking, took his last good-night with this word: "he that is filthy, let him be filthy still," and said he would never come again. I grant, an ill conscience can speak prophecy (Exodus 10:28-29). So Pharaoh did prophesy, and Cain also (Genesis 4:13-14).

And in like manner the text before alleged, must not be taken generally to include all without exception, but indefinitely for many or the most part of the cattle that were in the land of Egypt. The tenth allegation: Exodus 10:22 — we read that one of the plagues was a palpable…

This manner of speech is found often in other places, as when it is said, that God went forth for the salvation of his people, even for the salvation with his anointed (Habakkuk 3:13). Also that he went through Egypt, and led them in the wilderness like a flock (Exodus 11:4; Psa…

And therefore (as Job speaks of the sea: Job 38:11) He [reconstructed: sets] the bounds and compass of their course which they shall not pass thus far and no further: So to the Devil he tells [reconstructed: him] punctually how far he shall proceed, he is in your hand only save…

This shows the voice of God speaking in it; it was foretold by the prophet, a virgin shall conceive (Isaiah 7:14), and the Messiah shall be cut off (Daniel 9:26). The Scripture foretells things that should fall out many ages and centuries after; as how long Israel should serve i…

Resp. 1. Because of the strangeness of the deliverance. God delivered his people Israel by strange signs and wonders, by sending plague after plague upon Pharaoh, blasting the fruits of the earth, killing all the firstborn in Egypt (Exodus 12:29). And when Israel marched out of…

He turned their heart to hate his people. The more they hated and oppressed Israel, the more God plagued the Egyptians, and the gladder they were to let Israel go (Exodus 12:33). The Egyptians were urgent upon Israel that they might send them out of the land in haste.

As for me and my house we will serve the Lord: let us make our houses Bethel places, where God's name is called upon (Colossians 4:15). Salute Nymphas, and the church that is in his house: let the parent endeavor that his children may honor God, and the master that his servants…

Response 1. It is a duty imposed; let him examine himself. The Passover was not to be eaten raw (Exodus 12:19). To come to such an ordinance slightly, without examination, is to come in an undue manner, and is like eating the Passover raw.

In the Powder-Treason he made the traitors to be their own betrayers: God can do his work by the enemy's hand. God made the Egyptians send away the people of Israel laden with jewels (Exodus 12:36). The Church is the apple of God's eye, and the eyelid of his providence does dail…

Think with yourselves how great a mercy it is: it is one of the richest jewels in the cabinet of the new covenant (Psalm 32:1): "Blessed is he whose iniquity is forgiven" — in the Hebrew it is Ashre, meaning "blessednesses." And think with yourselves the unparalleled misery of s…

Before, when this Church consisted of her own people, her smell was as that of Lebanon (v. 4), and now by the access of the Gentiles it shall not be corrupt. Indeed when the Israelites came out of Egypt, the mingled of the Gentiles with them, drew them away to murmuring and lust…

And (3) By their celebration is he glorified in the world: And therefore, (4) As he has made blessed promises to his people, to grant them his presence and to bless them in their use: So (5) Being the tokens of the marriage relation that is between him and them, with respect to…

Neither would God allow any stranger, any one not of the Church so instituted by him, to celebrate any part of his instituted worship, until he was solemnly admitted into that Church as a member thereof. "All the congregation of Israel shall keep it, and when a stranger shall so…

But God has altered and changed them at sundry reasons, according to the counsel of his own will, so as he saw necessary for his own glory, and the edification of his Church. See (Genesis 2:16, 17; Genesis 17:10, 11; Exodus 12:3, 4, 5; Exodus 20; chapter 25:9; Hebrews 1:1; Hebre…

Qu. 8. How many we sanctify the name of God in the use of Gospel institutions? Answ. 1. By a holy reverence of his sovereign authority appointing of them. 2. A holy regard to his special presence in them. 3. Faith in his promises annexed to them. 4. Delight in his will, wisdom,…

What is the general nature of sacraments? They are divine instructions annexed to the word, for the teaching of spiritual things (Genesis 17; Exodus 12; Matthew 26). Who is the author of sacraments?

Adam's family was GOD's Church, and therein was first notable peace: but when GOD accepted Abel's sacrifice, and refused Cain's, then persecution began, and Cain slew his brother Abel. Abraham is called the Father of the faithful, and his family in those days, was the true Churc…

When went Moses out of Egypt? The time is directly set down, Exodus 12.41, Even the self same day when the promise of God was expired: for when the four hundred and thirty years were expired, then went all the host of the Lord out of Egypt, neither before nor after, but the very…

When Sodom must be destroyed, righteous Lot and his family, must be drawn out; nay, the Angel can do nothing till he be safe, Genesis 19:16, 22. When the destroying Angel went over the land of Egypt, and destroyed the firstborn in every house of the Egyptians (the Israelites dwe…

But this blood was a confirmatory sign of it, a token between God and the people of their mutual engagements in that covenant. So the Paschal Lamb was called God's Passover, because it was a sign and token of God's passing over the houses of the Israelites when he destroyed the…

And what is represented in the type, but is really, subjectively and properly found only in the antitype, may be affirmed of the type as such. So it is in all sacramental institutions; as the Paschal Lamb was called expressly God's Passover (Exodus 12:11), when it was only a ple…

For, the Lord does so often, and earnestly command holiness and purity to that people, and so often and severely reproves the contrary, and that not only in the offenders themselves, but also in them that suffered it, and this not only in Ceremonial matters, but also in sins aga…

Before God sends his judgments on Jerusalem, an angel is sent to mark them in the foreheads that mourn for the abominations of the people (Ezekiel 9:4). And this privilege none can have but he whose heart is sprinkled with the blood of Christ (Exodus 12:23 with 1 Corinthians 5:7…

3. Such a church-state was constituted and appointed under the Old Testament, founded in and on an especial covenant between God and the people (Exodus 24). To this Church every one that would please God, and walk before him, was bound to join himself, by the ways and means that…

But we are hasty; he wants no affection to us — his delights were with the sons of men before they were created (Proverbs 8:31). And certainly now he is so deeply interested in us, as having bought us with his blood — he desires to enjoy what he has purchased: 'tis not want of l…

1. Either he will make his Enemies friendly to his people. Exod 12. 35. The children of Israel borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and the Lord gave his people favour in the eyes of the Egyptians. God can make wolves to suckle his lambs: Or,

How shall we prove it lawful to apply the seal of God's Covenant to Infants? Or to admit women to eat of the holy things; for the Scriptures of the New Testament do speak little in these cases; only the Scriptures of the Old Testament do give direction, and light about them (Lev…

The Elders and Priests are joined together both in the New Testament, as (Matthew 26:59) the chief Priests and Elders; so in other places before cited: and likewise in the Old Testament (Exodus 24:1), Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab and [illegible], and seventy of the…

They who are of another judgement object to us: First, our Savior's precept (Matthew 18:17), where he bids us not tell the Eldership, but tell the Church. The answer is: by the Church he means the representative body of the Church, even as that which was spoken to the Elders of…

And it is plain that the name of the Congregation, or Church, is given to the Elders, for that which is said of the Elders, (Deuteronomy 19:12; Joshua 20:4) is said of the Congregation, (Numbers 35:24; Joshua 20:6). So (Exodus 12:3) compared with verse 21. This if he will not ta…

For Abraham received the promise when he was 76 years old, or at the beginning of that year, when having already departed from Haran he had arrived in the land of Canaan. From the giving of this promise, It came to pass at the end of four hundred and thirty years, that on that v…

But in truth, that one might become a partaker of all the privileges of that church, circumcision alone was required — so the express testimonies of Holy Scripture teach. For the law reads as follows (Exodus 12:48): "If a stranger sojourns with you and wishes to keep the Passove…

They are for continual daily instruction. That which respects the public ministry. Exodus 12:25-26. Let it be therefore, when you shall come into the land which the Lord shall give to you, as he has said, and shall observe this worship. Let it be (I say) when your children ask y…

The promise is marvelously sweet and strong, you may handle the matter so, that as you have instrumentally given them natural life, you may procure them spiritual life, they came out of your loins dead in sin, and they will grow in sin more and more, more unsavory, and more unpr…

When God delivered his people after a long captivity, he delivered them with glory, and some kind of triumph, when he turned the Egyptian captivity, they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver and jewels of gold and raiment. And the Lord gave the people favor in the sight of…

Mark here how the promises of God lie as void, dead, and of none effect, till the particular time of their accomplishment. God promises Jacob that his posterity shall be a great nation after 430 years: for which time they remain in thrall and bondage; but the very night after th…

God promised that after 430 years, the Israelites should be delivered out of Egypt, presently when the time was expired, nothing could hinder the promise. Read (Exodus 12:41). Therefore our duty is, to rest on God's promises in all times, both in life and death.

But our Prophet tells us, that we shall not need to fear missing of the way when we follow God, while he goes before us; seeing it pleases him to take this office upon him. It is very likely also, that he alludes to the history of the first deliverance, because God then led his…

For he uses not their ministry, as if he stood in need of their help, but rather to support our infirmity, as we have said before: yet it is most probable, and answers best to the Prophet's words, that one Angel alone had commission to do this service. Even as in the ancient del…

It is as much then as if he had said, Upon those which shall bear the signs and marks of their deliverance. It may be also that he alludes to that place of Exodus: where it is said, that the houses which the destroying Angel had marked, were not hurt (Exodus 12:23). For as then…

Now having pulled off their mask of holiness, to wit, their glorying in the name of Israel, (as in the first verse) he imposes upon them a more proper name, and flatly calls them rebels. By the womb, I understand not their first estate, soon after they were separated to be the L…

For they fled by night out of Egypt, feigning as if they had only meant to have gone three days' journey to offer sacrifice to God (Exodus 3:5 and 8:27). Afterward, they went forth hastily and with tumult, as it was enjoined them (Exodus 12:31), and then Pharaoh pursued them, th…

But some childishly descant here upon the sign of the Cross: others refer it to the preaching of the Gospel: and both of them, as I take it, are wide from the mark. For he rather seems to allude to that which was done at the going forth and deliverance of the people: as Moses de…

23. As it is written in the Law This was another exercise of piety which was discharged by Joseph and Mary. The Lord commanded, that all the males should be dedicated to him, in remembrance of their deliverance; because when the angel slew all the first-born of Egypt, (Exodus 12…

It is first inquired, Why does the day which preceded the sacrificing of the lamb receive the name of the day of unleavened bread? For the Law did not forbid the use of leaven till the lamb was eaten, (Exodus 12:18.) But this difficulty may be speedily removed, for the phrase re…

After the same sort he here also leads us into the Scriptures, where as he says: You were redeemed with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb undefiled and without spot. For here does he expound that which is read in the Prophets and Moses: as that in Isaiah 53, He was brou…

That true Faith, by which Persons rely on the Righteousness of Christ, and the Work that he hath done for them, and do truly feed and live upon him, is evermore accompanied with such a Spirit of Earnestness in the Christian Work and Course. Which was typified of old, by the Mann…

In like manner, we find the evils done to Gods people have been repaid, by a just retribution to their enemies. Pharaoh and the Egyptians were cruel enemies to Gods Israel, and designed the ruine of their poor innocent babes; and God repaid it, in smiting all the first-born of E…

Now nothing can be more precise, certain and punctual, than is the performance of mercy at the time and season which God has appointed, how long soever it be, or how many obstacles soever lye in the way of it. There was a time prefixed by God himself for the performance of that…

As a time to break down, so a time to build up: an acceptable time, a day of salvation. It came to pass, at the end of 430 years, even the self same day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the Lord went out of Egypt (Exodus 12:41). As a woman with child goes not beyond her ap…

There were therefore twenty seven days between this fictitious institution of the Sabbath, and the first solemn observation of it which was at their station in Alush, as is generally supposed, certainly in the Wilderness of Sin, after they had left Mara and Elim, and the coast o…

Thus God tells Abraham, that his seed should sojourn in a strange land four hundred years (Genesis 15:13), which Stephen repeats (Acts 7:6). After this, Moses with some difference in the years themselves, affirms, that their sojourning in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years…

End and use of it. Time of the Israelites sojourning in Egypt, Genesis 11:13, Exodus 12:40, 41, Acts 7:6, Galatians 3:17, reconciled. The beginning and ending of the 430 years.

Lastly, to a cloud of witnesses. They are compared to a cloud (as I take it) by allusion to the cloud which directed and led the Israelites in the wilderness: for, when they came from Egypt, and were 40 years in the Desert of Arabia; all that while, they were directed by a pilla…

I leave this to the judgment of all who have ever seriously used the Hebrew language in the study of sacred letters. Rabbi Bechai, on section Noah (Exodus 13:17), brings forward an excellent testimony from the book Bahir to this end — namely: The points with the letters of the l…

They are for continual daily instruction. That which respects the public ministry. Exodus 12:25-26. Let it be therefore, when you shall come into the land which the Lord shall give to you, as he has said, and shall observe this worship. Let it be (I say) when your children ask y…

My presence, that is, my Angel, spoken of before, called the angel of his presence (Isaiah 63:9): In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. This Angel is called Jehovah (Exodus 13:21): And the Lord went before them, by day in a pillar of…

For why should they enjoy that comfort which they had unkindly refused to give to others? He takes the mid-day here for extreme heat: and this similitude is often found in the scriptures, to wit, that the Lord was as a cloud at high noon, and as a pillar of fire by night (Exodus…

If the faithful then at any time have desired that their faith might be confirmed by signs, we must not by and by follow them therein; because it was a thing very rare: as to Gideon, who being taken from the flail to govern the people, he gave two signs which he asked, to the en…

For I take not assembly for congregation, but for the place where men meet. Now to the end he might describe and set forth a full blessing, he alludes to that which Moses recites; namely, that when the Lord would deliver his people from the bondage of Egypt, he sent a pillar of…

I answer, Ans. that however he mentions none but Abraham here, yet under him he meant to call to mind other examples of his goodness, which their forefathers had tasted of since, that from both, they might conceive hope of deliverance. Abraham was not only delivered out of Chald…

But especially when he has shown so certain and so excellent testimonies of his continual care over us. He brought Israel out of Egypt, upon condition they should never forget such a deliverance (Exodus 13:9). The Prophet now sets the same God before their eyes, showing that not…

He carried them up (says Moses, Deuteronomy 32:13) to the high places of the earth, when they passed through the wilderness. Also he says, that the Lord went before the Israelites, when they departed out of Egypt (Exodus 13:21). Here we see then what singular love the Lord bears…

For they fled by night out of Egypt, feigning as if they had only meant to have gone three days' journey to offer sacrifice to God (Exodus 3:5 and 8:27). Afterward, they went forth hastily and with tumult, as it was enjoined them (Exodus 12:31), and then Pharaoh pursued them, th…

Faith truly exercised in bringing the soul into an actual subjection to the authority of Christ in the observance of this Day, and directing the thoughts to a contemplation of the Rest that he entered into after his works, with the Rest that he has procured for us to enter into…

And this night fell in directly upon the expiration of the 430 years before limited, verse 40, 41. For the time of the year, it was in the month [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] Abib, as the Hebrews call the month of the spring, which in those Eastern parts gave blades to the corn, a…

40. That the tenth of every clean beast be separated to the Lord (Leviticus 27:32). 41. That every first-born Male be sanctified and offered to the Lord (Exodus 13:2; Deuteronomy 15:19). 42. That every first-born of man be redeemed with a certain price (Numbers 18:15).

Secondly, the appearance of his glory which they enjoyed on extraordinary occasions. The first, with the first use of it is mentioned (Exodus 13:21, 22): And the Lord went before them by day in the pillar of a cloud, to lead them in the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to g…

Whatever he does in religion, he does to purpose. Under the law, God rejected the snail and the ass (Leviticus 11:30; Exodus 13:13). And under the gospel, he allows no sluggish lazy professor (1 Timothy 5:11, 13).

2. Quest. Why is it then said the first, when no other commandments with promise follow? Answ. This particle (first) has not always reference to some other following, but is often simply taken, to show that none was before it: so is the word firstborn used in the law: and so Chr…

1. There is an excellency in the firstborn, as is evident by Jacob's speech to his eldest son, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power (Genesis 49:3). And thereupon God took the firstborn as peculia…

So the seal was brought, and he set his mark upon them, that they might be known in the places where they were yet to go. Now the seal was the contents and sum of the passover which the children of Israel did eat (Exodus 13:8-10), when they came out of the land of Egypt; and the…

Fourthly, by Urim and Thummim (Numbers 27:21; 1 Samuel 30:7-8). Fifthly, by signs (Genesis 32:24; Exodus 13:21). Sixthly, by audible voice (Exodus 20:1; Genesis 22:15).

The Lord has made all things for himself; that is, for his glory. As a king has excise out of commodities, God will have his glory out of every thing; he will have glory out of the wicked, the glory of his justice; they will not give him glory, but he will get his glory upon the…

with a look. That is all it needs cost God to destroy his enemies, a look, a cast of his eye (Exodus 14:24). The Lord looked into the host of the Egyptians, through the pillar of fire, and troubled their host.

Come, says Pharaoh, let us deal wisely (Exodus 1:10), and he never played the fool more, than when he thought to deal wisely. In the morning watch the Lord looked to the host of the Egyptians, by the pillar of fire, and troubled their host (Exodus 14:24). How may this be as sap…

To say, Hallowed be your Name, yet not to bring honor to God's Name, it is to take his Name in vain. 4. Such as do not hallow God's Name, and bring revenues of honor to him, God will get his honor upon them (Exodus 14:17). I'll get me honor upon Pharaoh.

Riches are golden snares. If a man were to climb up a steep rock, and had weights tied to his legs, it would hinder him from his ascent: Too many golden weights will hinder us from climbing that steep rock which leads to heaven; (Exodus 14:3) They are entangled in the land, the…

When Christ's kingdom comes the bodies of the saints that slept in the dust shall be raised in honor, and made like Christ's glorious body; then shall your souls like diamonds sparkle with holiness; you shall never have a sinful thought more, you shall be as holy as the angels,…

The Spouse (in the Canticles) which is the Church of God, or a true Christian soul, whether you will (for it is true both in the general, and particular) Canticles 3:2-3, She seeks Christ everywhere, in the streets and open places, but she finds him not; then she goes to the wat…

But, within a while, the family was so great in the Land, that he was fain to go down into Egypt, to sojourn there. And, there the Lord blessed him exceedingly, and enriched him so greatly, that he became a mighty Prince, able to encounter with the Kings of those nations in batt…

Moses departed with courage and boldness, and therefore fled not as a malefactor: for he feared not the King, as appears plainly in the History; for, though Pharaoh had said unto him, Exodus 10.28 Get you gone, see you see my face no more: for when you come in my sight, you shal…

When the three children were cast into the fiery furnace, God was with them, and took away the natural force from the fire: Daniel 3:27. When the Israelites were to pass through the sea, or else die (a hard shift) God was with them, and made the sea give place to his children, a…

And here their faith is commended unto us by a wonderful strange action, which they did, through the power and goodness of God: namely, by their passing through the Red Sea; not by passing over it: for, that might have been by Art; but through it: which is above nature and Art,…

Now the reasons which some papists bring to the contrary to prove that we may believe in the creatures, and in the church, are of no moment. First they allege the phrase of scripture, (Exodus 14:31) They believed in God, and in Moses. (1 Samuel 27:12) And Achish believed in Davi…

The prayer of the righteous has stopped the sun in its full career (Joshua 10:13). It has divided the waters (Exodus 14:15). Overcome armies (Exodus 17:11).

God could have secured Christ from Herod's fury, by a miraculous stroke from heaven upon his enemy, but he orders Joseph and Mary's flight into Egypt as a means of his preservation. God rebukes Moses for praying, and not using the means in continuing the people's march (Exodus 1…

With groans in the heart. (Exodus 14:15) The Lord said to Moses, Why cry you? Yet there is no mention made that Moses spoke any word at all: the Lord no doubt, accepted the inward mourning and desire of his heart for a cry.

And the reason of this is, 1. Because there is nothing that is not saving, but a natural man may have it; now, this doctrinal faith is not saving, and so a natural man may have it — yea, the devils believe and tremble; and James does not dispute with these to whom he writes on t…

So when the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, were they humbled? In fact, their murmuring against Moses and Aaron (Exodus 5:20-22) testifies their pride: and in that miraculous deliverance, and greatest danger, when they were between Satan and the deep sea, they were not humbled…

And though they were forbidden to gather it on the Sabbath day, having on the evening before enough for two days, and it was told them they should find none on the Sabbath day, yet they must try. Where need is, there a man may commit himself to the providence of God, and rely up…

When Moses stoode at the redde sea, in great danger, hauing the sea before him, and Pharaohs charriots behind him, no doubt he lifted vp his heart to God, but we read not of any thing that he said, and yet the Lord says, Why criest you to me? Exod 14:15. When Iehosaphat was in g…

Now he alludes to the first deliverance of the Church when it was brought out of Egypt. For when it pleased God to give them passage, he dried up the sea by the violence and force of the winds (Exodus 14:21). I grant that God needed not the help of winds, because he was able to…

This doctrine ought to be common to all the faithful, for Satan invents nothing else but how to trouble and vex them, and to cause them to fall from that happy estate in which they are. Moses long since gave this admonition, stand you still, and the Lord shall fight for you (Exo…

The Prophet now sets the same God before their eyes, showing that nothing could withstand him, which by his power he overcame not, when he took his people's salvation in hand. For then he made a way for them in the sea (Exodus 14:21), and guided them through the tempestuous and…

And no doubt he puts them in mind of that time in which their fathers were ready to perish in the desert for want of food; in which necessity, God gave them manna from heaven the space of forty years (Exodus 16:35). Also in speaking of the shadow against the heat, it is certain…

At his rebuke he says the sea is dried up, as if he had terrified it, in rebuking of it. For by his commandment the waters parted in two to give his people passage (Exodus 14:21). And Jordan fled back (Joshua 3:16; Psalm 114:5), so as the fishes being destitute of water, died an…

He speaks not here generally but alleges that work of wonder, so often mentioned heretofore: for in that redemption of their fathers, he gave hope of eternal salvation to all their posterity. He therefore rightly affirms himself to be that God, who long since divided the sea (Ex…

So that in many Providences, they are able to discern a very clear answer to their prayers, and are sure they have the petitions they asked of him, 1 John 5:15 Thus when the Sea divided it self, just upon Israels cry to Heaven, Exodus 14:10 When so signal a victory is given to A…

Fire consumes persecuting Ahaziah's companies (2 Kings 1:10, 11). The water drowns Pharaoh and his chariots (Exodus 14:28). Earth swallows up Korah, with his fellow rebels (Numbers 16:32).

As we know in ourselves: a man meditates, he conceives such and such things, he forms them all in his spirit under some words into such notions; and he can put forth these by desires, though he does not speak. And so we are said often in Scripture to speak to God in our hearts,…

The second use of this pillar was, to give them protection and defence in all their way. So (Exodus 14:19, 20, 24) this protected them from the Egyptians, and from there God troubled their enemies; out of the pillar, that is from his especial presence. This use of it is insisted…

Verse 32; (Job 42:3) Therefore have I uttered that I understood not, things too wonderful for me, that I knew not. 3. Beware of murmuring and angry and fretting words against God; (Exodus 14:11) Were there no graves in Egypt? (Exodus 15:24; Exodus 16:2; Numbers 14:2, 27) and muc…

He graciously inclines the will and hearts of men (Deuteronomy 30:6; Jeremiah 32:39, 40; Ezekiel 36:27) as the saints pray (Psalms 119:33, 34, 36, 88; Psalms 86:11; Canticles 1. & 4). He hardens the heart, and blinds the mind, as in his judgment he pleases (Job 12:16; Ezekiel 14…

17. The sad freatings and wrestlings at the providence of God incapacitates men for influences of grace: three times Psalm 78. the people are said to tempt the Lord, and especially in asking meat for their lust, v. 18. can he provide flesh for his people? v. 20. and the Spirit o…

They tempted him, and provoked him; but, when? At the red Sea, and in the wilderness (Psalm 78:17; Exodus 14; Psalm 106:7). It was untimeous sinning in such straits, when their very month was come, so as they could not fly from his hand.

They have the Prince of the power of the Air, and all his armies, all the forces he can make against them. Though his power is nothing but tyranny, and usurpation, yet because once they were under his yoke, he bestirs himself to pursue them, when they are led forth from their ca…

It is not the loud noise of words, which is best heard in heaven; but the fervent affectionate cries of the saints are those of the heart, rather than of the tongue. Exodus 14:17 — it is said, Moses cried to the Lord: we do not read of the words he uttered; his cry was with the…

Through the bright Mirror of his own essence he has a ful Idea of all things. He knows the Intrigues of States, the Stratagems of his Enemies, Exodus 14:24. Future Contingencies fall within his Cognizance.

How easily can God chastise Rebels? Exodus 14:24. In the morning-watch God looked to the host of the Egyptians through the Pillar of fire, and troubled their host.

There is a twofold salvation: temporal and eternal. 1. Temporal salvation is deliverance from temporal dangers (Exodus 14:13): "Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord." 2. Eternal deliverance from hell and wrath, together with that positive blessedness which is called ete…

1. For that temporal deliverance which God gives, or has promised to give to his people. So it is taken, (Exodus 14:13) Stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord that he will show you today: that is, the wonderful deliverance which he will work for you. So (Lamentations 3:2…

Second, when men are sorry for the good which they have done. Pharaoh grieved that he had let the children of Israel go (Exodus 14:5). Many are so devilish that they are troubled they have prayed so much and heard so many sermons; they repent of their repentance.

(5) It's wicked stoutness to rest upon your own righteousness and refuse to treat with God (Isaiah 46:12-13). (6) And vain stoutness to dare God in his own quarters and fight him (Exodus 14:8, 23; Exodus 23:8, 13; Isaiah 36:10-11, 36-37), if it were in his own seas as Pharaoh an…

The Scripture is plentiful in examples of this kind. Of this sort, was the dividing of the red sea, and making it dry land by a mighty east wind, that the children of Israel might pass through it (Exodus 14:21). For though the east wind be natural of great force to move the wate…

That which makes salvation to be salvation is that God has a finger of power, and an influence of free grace in it. O but this puts the luster, sweetness and smell of Heaven on it, that it is the salvation of the Lord (Exodus 14:13). In regard of irresistible efficacy and succes…

Romans 8:26: the Spirit helps our infirmities with sighs and groans that cannot be expressed. Exodus 14:15: Why do you cry to me? And crying implies earnestness.

For removing things hurtful, and delivering us out of troubles, God has expressly said, I will deliver you. There shall no evil come to you: the angels have charge over you, to keep you in all your ways, lest you dash the foot, etc. Here then the use of Faith is this, that if we…

§. 124. Of continual Ejaculations. Our hearts ought every moment to be ready, and prepared to be lifted up to God: even when we have not opportunity of time and place to utter any prayer with our mouths, in heart we must pray, as Moses and Nehemiah (Exodus 14:5; Nehemiah 2:4). T…

For it stirrs up the heart, to praier and invocation of the name of God (Zach. 12:10), yes it causeth a man to crie and call earnestly to God, in the time of distresse, with a sense and feeling of his owne miseries; and with deepe sighes and groanes, which cannot be uttered, to…

II. Our prayer must proceed from an earnest desire of that grace which we want: and this desire is indeed prayer itself. Moses uttering never a word, but groaning in the spirit to God, in the behalf of the Israelites, is said, to cry to the Lord (Exodus 14:15). We know not (says…

The church has more with her than against her; she has Immanuel on her side, even that great King to whom all knees must bend. Christ is called a Man of War (Exodus 15:3); he understands all the policies of warfare; he is described with seven eyes, and seven horns (Revelation 5:…

What cannot omnipotent power do? The Lord is a man of war (Exodus 15:3). He has a mighty arm (Psalm 89:13).

The next attribute is God's holiness (Exodus 15:11): "Glorious in holiness" — Nedar Bakkodesh. Holiness is the most sparkling jewel of his crown; it's the name by which God is known (Psalm 111:9): "Holy and reverend is his name."

And have put on the new man, which is renewed [illegible] — after the image of him that created him. He who has God for his Father resembles God in holiness: Holiness is the glory of the Godhead (Exodus 15:11). The holiness of God is the intrinsic purity of his essence.

That which makes God glorious, must needs make us so. Holiness is the most sparkling jewel in the Godhead (Exodus 15:11): Glorious in holiness. Sanctification is the first fruit of the Spirit; it is Heaven begun in the soul.

God counts holiness his glory, and the most sparkling jewel of his crown. (Exodus 15:11) Glorious in holiness. Here is a meditation fit for our first entrance into a Sabbath, God's holiness: the contemplation of this would work in us such a frame of heart as is suitable to a hol…

Chrysostom says, where dancing is, there the devil is: I speak chiefly of mixed dancing. And whereas we read of dances in Scripture (Exodus 15), those were sober and modest. They were not mixed dances, but pious and religious, being usually accompanied with singing praises to Go…

How many injuries and affronts did he put up? The people of Israel dealt unkindly with him, they murmured against him at the waters of Marah (the water was not so bitter as their spirits,) but he fell to prayer for them (Exodus 15:24). He cried to the Lord, and the Lord showed h…

2. It was the pledge and means of God's residence or dwelling among them, which expresseth the peculiar manner of his presence mentioned in general before. The Tabernacle was God's house; nor did he promise at any time to dwell among them but with respect thereunto (Exodus 15:17…

This is the most sparkling jewel of his crown. Glorious in Holiness (Exodus 15:11). God is first transcendently holy.

When Christ was upon the Cross, in the height of his love, he was devising what he should do for his Church to make her honorable and glorious, and he pitched upon sanctification as the fittest blessing that he could bestow upon us: every distinct society must have some distinct…

1. When we will walk on in a way contrary to checks of providence, when we will run against the will of God manifested in his providence, we do deny his government, and refuse subjection to him, when we will be peremptory in our resolves against the declaration of God's will by…

But what are you, you are sour in the taste of God, what delight can God take in your unsavory and rotten corrupted spirits? Oh! it's a comfortable thing when a child is able to say, as (Exodus 15:2), My God, and my father's God, God was my Father's God, and delighted in my Fath…

So (Deuteronomy 10:20): "You shall fear the Lord your God, and serve him." Christ expounds it (Luke 4:8) exclusively: "You shall serve only the Lord," because it is the prerogative of God to be worshipped, as it is a prerogative of grace to be the ransomed and redeemed of God (D…

So have the Lord Jesus Christ by worshiping of him; and you have him fully (Psalm 45:10-11). He is the Lord your God, and worship him; implying, that as God has set over his Son to us, to be our Lord, so we must receive, accept, and worship him; this is that which Moses and the…

When their hearts are most joyful, and they go about duties most willingly, yet then most awfully; for take you a Christian when he comes unwillingly, his heart is not much affected with fear and trembling, but then he is most awful when his heart is in the best frame towards ho…

Elsewhere we have them in transports admiring his holiness. Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods! (Exodus 15:11) Who is like you glorious in holiness!

See Psalm 18. Title, and v. 1, 2, 3. So Moses and the people with him, Exodus 15. when God had delivered them from Pharaoh, how do they exalt him in a song of thanksgiving, which for the elegancy and spirituality of it, is made an Emblem of the doxologies given to God in glory b…

The measure thereof is longer than the Earth, and broader than the Sea. 2 Chron. 2:6 The Heaven and Heaven of Heavens cannot contain him. Exodus 15:11 He is glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders. When the Scripture speaks of him comparatively, see how it expres…

They trembled, [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], moved themselves, were moved, that is shaken with fear and trembling, as though they were ready to run from the appearance of the mighty God with his people. The story of it, you have in the book of Numbers: as it was prophetically for…

And these things will the more clearly appear, if we consider the dealing of God with that people about the Sabbath from first to last. §. 7 The Jews, some of them at least, as was before discoursed, would have not only the first revelation of the Sabbath to them, or the renovat…

(1) Of the Original of the Sabbath; the importance of this Disquisition (2) Opinion of some of the Jewish Masters about the Original of the Sabbath that it began in Mara. (3) The Station in Mara and the Occurrences thereof; Tacitus noted, Exodus 15:25, 26. Jews Exposition of it.

The appearance here is of a man, v. 13. A man of war, as God is called (Exodus 15:3), armed with his sword drawn in his hand, as a token of the business he came about. At first sight Joshua apprehends him to be a man only, which occasioned his enquiry, are you for us or for our…

The former were those temporary, occasional, instructive Ordinances which God gave them at their entrance into the Wilderness, before they came to receive the Law on Sinai. The first mentioned of this nature is (Exodus 15:23, 24, 25, 26). And when they came to Marah, they could…

After their coming up out of Aegypt, during their abode in the Wilderness, Moses presided over them with all manner of authority, as their law-giver, king and judge. He judged and determined all their causes, as is frequently affirmed, and that alone, until by the advice of Jeth…

In Leviticus and Numbers, other outward preparations are commanded, as the abstaining from all things that were unclean, they must not touch anything that was unclean; and then sometimes they were not only to wash their clothes, but to change their clothes: you have the expressi…

While it is called A Song of Songs, it is compared with, and preferred to, all other songs: and we conceive the comparison is not only between this and human songs; but, 1. It is compared with, and preferred to, all these which Solomon wrote, and it is preferable to all these 10…

In this we have, 1. The mean applied and made use of. 2. The manner of application. (For that the worker is the Beloved himself, is clear) The mean in his hand, which in Scripture signifies three things, when attributed to God, 1. His Omnipotence, whereby he does what he pleases…

4. That the care and love of Christ to them, in reference to all these, may appear, that they may know upon what grounds to comfort themselves in every condition, and may have this song, as a little magazine, for direction, and consolation in every condition. Therefore this song…

And how weak will they all appear together at the day of judgment! Thus we may apply those words in the song of Moses, Exodus 15:6. "Thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy."

3. Beware of murmuring and angry and fretting words against God; (Exodus 14:11) Were there no graves in Egypt? (Exodus 15:24; Exodus 16:2; Numbers 14:2, 27) and much more. It is dreadful to contend with the Almighty; and for so small a thing as a drink of water, and for a piece…

17. The sad freatings and wrestlings at the providence of God incapacitates men for influences of grace: three times Psalm 78. the people are said to tempt the Lord, and especially in asking meat for their lust, v. 18. can he provide flesh for his people? v. 20. and the Spirit o…

All these things they suppose they can do of themselves, because they can and ought to perform the outward works, wherein the duties intended do consist. Hereby Christ is left out of the whole design, who when all is done, is the Lord that healeth us (Exodus 15:26). And there is…

They which worship the sun, among the heathens, they used a flying-horse, as a thing most suitable to the swift motions of the sun. Well then, they that will glorify and honor God with a glory due to his name, must sanctify him as well as honor him: why? for God is glorious in h…

Think of Gods Omnisciency: he makes a Curious and Critical descant upon all our Actions, and enters them down into his day-book. Think of Gods Holiness, which is the most sparkling Jewel of his Crown, Exodus 15:11. Think of Gods Mercy: this makes all his other Attributes sweet.

See Hosea 2:18, 22. 2. By acting contrary to their ordinary course and nature; for waters to stand on a heap (Exodus 15:8), fire not to burn (Daniel 3), are unwonted and contranatural things, and they do this to witness against the contranaturalness of sin, and both these were w…

It is said to weary him, when men do but say that evil is good in his sight (Malachi 2:17). This is the thing God glories in, that he is holy, yes, glorious in holiness (Exodus 15:11). And holiness is the attribute, which frees God from not only evil itself, but from all appeara…

In like sort, as singing of Psalms is an ordinance, so reading the Psalms in order to singing, is allowable also. Answer 3. It is mentioned in Scripture, that the children of Israel did all join in singing the Song of Moses at the Red Sea (Exodus 15:1). Now it is not credible, t…

The Song of those who had gotten victory over the beast (Revelation 15) is said to be the Song of Moses and of the Lamb, ver. 3. And surely the matter of Moses' Song (Exodus 15) might justly yield fit matter for the like doxology (or thanksgiving) upon the like occasion: as the…

The Apostle then requires the same subjection in the woman, which the Law had put upon them: no more. Now it is certain, the Law, yes the Lawgiver Moses did permit Miriam and the women that went out after her to sing forth the praises of the Lord, as well as the men, and to answ…

Object. 1. Against the singing of all sorts of men in the Congregation, carnal as well as Christian, is taken from the examples of Song set forth in Scripture, which both in the Old Testament, and in the New, were only performed by the Church and Church-members. As the Song of M…

And as Man He is the manifestative image of God; there is more of God to be seen in that holy thing, the human nature of Jesus Christ the Son of God, than in all angels and men. It is said of God that He is glorious in holiness (Exodus 15:11). His holiness is His chief glory.

How many injuries did he bear! When the people of Israel murmured against him, instead of falling into a rage, he fell to prayer for them (Exodus 15:24-25). The text says they murmured at the waters of Marah; surely the waters were not so bitter as the spirits of the people.

First, there is a primitive purity which is in God originally and essentially, as light is in the sun. Holiness is the glory of the Godhead (Exodus 15:11); God is the pattern and prototype of all holiness. Second, there is a created purity; holiness is in the angels, and was onc…

I shall show: first, that Christ is a physician; second, why he is a physician; third, that he is the only physician; fourth, how he heals his patients; fifth, that he is the best physician. That Christ is a physician — it is one of his titles (Exodus 15:26): I am the Lord who h…

The Lord has affirmed, that not only every one that opposes, but all that do not serve this house, shall be utterly destroyed (Isaiah 60:12). There you have the spoil of Pharaoh, and all his host, gathered on the shore of the Red Sea, and dedicated in this house (Exodus 15). The…

It is one thing to profess God, another thing to resemble him. A godly man is like God in Holiness: Holiness is the most orient Pearl of the King of Heavens Crown, Exodus 15:11. Glorious in Holiness. Gods power makes him Mighty, his mercy makes him lovely, but his holiness makes…

He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us, he will subdue our iniquities, and will cast all our sins into the depths of the Sea. It is an allusion to Gods great Judgement on Pharaoh and the Egyptian Host; when they pursued the Israelites, they came to the Red Sea, and…

God threatens to cut short his power, that he should not execute his intendment (chap. 19:28), which he performs accordingly, by taking away the lives of his soldiers (ver. 35), without whom it was impossible that his conceived sin should be brought forth. This providential disp…

So (Psalm 30:7): You turned away your face, and I was troubled — [in non-Latin alphabet] Niuhal — I was troubled like a withered flower that loses sap and vigor. So (Exodus 15:15): the dukes of Edom — [in non-Latin alphabet] Niuhaln — were amazed; yet at that time David prayed,…

He that converts any time of the Sabbath to worldly business, is a worse thief than he who robs on the highway; for such a thief does but rob man, but this thief robs God, he robs him of his day. The Lord forbade manna to be gathered on the Sabbath (Exodus 16). One would think t…

4. We do God's will as the angels in Heaven, when we do God's will fervently, sine remissione (Romans 12:11): Fervent in spirit serving God; ⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩, a metaphor from water when it seethes and boils over; so our affections should boil over in zeal [◊] fervency; th…

(1.) The golden pot that had Manna. When the Manna first fell, every one was commanded to gather an Omer, for his own eating (Exodus 16:16). Hereon God appointed that a pot should be provided, which should hold an Omer, to be filled with Manna to be laid up before the Lord for t…

Some presumptuous persons that never learned obedience, are always unsatisfied; 'twas observed of Egypt, that it was Loquax est ingeniosa in contumeliam praefectorum provincia, si quis forte vitaverit culpam, contumeliam non [illegible]git; many such ungoverned spirits there are…

Now the word in the Hebrew is, The estimation shall be to the mouth of the seed, that is, according to the proportion of the seed so shall the estimation be. And so you have it in (Exodus 16:16) Gather every man according to what he shall eat. It is the same here, To the mouth o…

There is a humor in men; we are very desirous to try conclusions, condemning things common, and are fond about strange novelties. It was told the Israelites as plain as could be, that they should not reserve Manna till the morning, and they need not to have reserved it, they had…

In regard the Jews saw no way open to return home, and that there lay between many great and vast wildernesses, the Prophet alleges God's power, from which he propounds some examples, that so the Jews might be dispossessed of all fear and doubts. He would have them then to consi…

The Prophet confirms that which was said in the former verse; to wit, that God has provision ready to sustain the Jews in the way; so as no necessaries shall be wanting to them. And no doubt he puts them in mind of that time in which their fathers were ready to perish in the des…

The things that put it to the proof whether men will prefer God to other things in practice, are the difficulties of religion, or those things which occur that make the practice of duty difficult and cross to other principles besides the love of God; because in them, God and oth…

The having of poor always among us, and of us, according to our Savior's prediction (Matthew 26:11), and the promise of God (Deuteronomy 15:11), serves for the trial of themselves and others, of their own content, with Christ alone, with submission to the all-disposing sovereign…

(9) Names of a Sacred Day of Rest. [in non-Latin alphabet]. (Genesis 2:3. Hebrews 4:4.) (10) [in non-Latin alphabet]. (Genesis 2:3. Exodus 16:23. Chap. 35. 2. Lamentations 1:7.) Saturn called [in non-Latin alphabet]; and [in non-Latin alphabet] by the Jews, and why. The word dou…

(7) Jews sense of the Original of the Sabbath rejected. (8) The first appropriation of the Law of the Sabbath to that people, Exodus 16. (9) Their mistakes about its Observation.

For the determination of the day in the hebdomadal revolution, was added in the Law Decalogical, to the Law of Nature. And this was with respect to, and in the confirmation of that ordinance which gave them the seventh day Sabbath in a peculiar manner; that is the seventh day af…

God knows our frame, and remembers that we are dust; as also, that, that dust, is more discomposed, and weakly compacted in some than others. As thus the people gathered Manna of old, some more, some less, [illegible] every man according to his appetite, yet he that gathered muc…

I see therefore no Difficulty in these things. The fourth Commandment does not contain only the moral equity that some time should always be set apart to the celebration of the worship of God; nor only the Original Instruction given us by the Law of Creation, and the Covenant Ob…

As still their wants and murmurings lay at the bottom, and were the occasion of those reliefs, whereby the spiritual mercies of the Church by Christ were typed out. In this condition God sends them Manna (Exodus 16:14, 15). In the morning the dew lay round about the host.

1. That no work be done on the Sabbath (Exodus 20:10). 2. That none go out, or beyond the bounds of the City on the Sabbath (Exodus 16:29). 3. That no punishment be inflicted on the Sabbath (Exodus 35:3).

"But if you will not hearken to me to hallow the Sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched." Indeed, God was so exacting about this, that he descends to a particular prohibition of seve…

3. Beware of murmuring and angry and fretting words against God; (Exodus 14:11) Were there no graves in Egypt? (Exodus 15:24; Exodus 16:2; Numbers 14:2, 27) and much more. It is dreadful to contend with the Almighty; and for so small a thing as a drink of water, and for a piece…

17. The sad freatings and wrestlings at the providence of God incapacitates men for influences of grace: three times Psalm 78. the people are said to tempt the Lord, and especially in asking meat for their lust, v. 18. can he provide flesh for his people? v. 20. and the Spirit o…

When he purposed to bring a famine on the world, he sent a man beforehand to lay up provision for his Church (Genesis 45:7). When his Church was in a barren and dry wilderness, he gave them bread from heaven, water out of the rock, and kept their clothing from growing old, and t…

Carnal wishes for death arise either (1.) out of violent anger and a pet against providence, as Jonah 4:8: the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said it is better for me to die than live. The children of Israel murmured when they…

4th Commandment: Remember the Sabbath day, etc. He breaks this commandment: who labors in the servile works of his ordinary calling (Nehemiah 13:15); who travels abroad on his ordinary business (Exodus 16:24); who keeps fairs and markets on this day (Nehemiah 13:15); who works h…

First, the Jew might not on the Sabbath go forth, or take a journey any whither, for any matter or business of his own. For of this, there was a special commandment given (Exodus 16:29): Tarry every man in his place: let no man go out of his place the seventh day, namely, to do…

Moses in sundry places, is said to be angry, and the occasions of his anger were great, as appears in the particulars. First, because some of the Israelites, against God's commandement, had reserved Manna till the next day (Exodus 16:20). Again, he was angry, because the Israeli…

For this very end did God, by express word, give to Adam every herb bearing seed which was upon the earth, and every tree wherein was the fruit of a tree bearing seed for his meat, that he might receive it as God had given it to him from his own hand (Genesis 1:29). Thus Moses s…

And this very thing seems to be typified of old by the corrupting of the manna. Some of the children of Israel, because they had gathered a store of manna, trusted in it, there being, as they supposed, sufficient in the store they had gathered and laid up, without humbly looking…

(1) Because, the fourth Command, which appoints one day of seven to be set apart for God, is a positive, and moral Command, as to substance; seeing it was given to Adam in his integrity, before ever there was need of any Types, and Ceremonies shadowing forth Christ (Genesis 2:2-…

Old Latimer was much strengthened and comforted by hearing Mr. Bilnyes' confession of faith. We read that when Moses' hands were heavy, and he was ready to let them fall, Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands (Exodus 17:12). A Christian who is ready to faint under temptation, and le…

He cried to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, they were made sweet. When they wanted water they fell to chiding with Moses (Exodus 17:3): Why have you brought us out of Egypt to kill us with thirst? As if they had said, if we die w…

It has divided the waters (Exodus 14:15). Overcome armies (Exodus 17:11). Cast out devils (Matthew 17:21).

But afterwards the Lord was pleased to speak to his Church both by Word and writing: his Word was necessary for further revealing and clearing up the doctrine of Salvation; and writing was necessary, because when precepts were multiplied, it was needful for men's memories that t…

There is no time or condition in the life of a Christian which will permit an intermission of this work. It is in the keeping watch over our hearts as it was in the keeping up of Moses's hands while Israel and Amalek were fighting below (Exodus 17:12). No sooner do Moses's hands…

A reflection upon what God has done should be joined with our desires of what we would have God to do for us. When Moses was praying upon the top, while Israel was fighting with Amalek at the foot of the hill, he had the rod of God in his hand (Exodus 17:9). That miraculous rod…

If we must not tempt God, then it does not become Christ to tempt his Father's Providence for a new proof of his sonship and care over him. Therefore the devil's temptation was neither good nor profitable, to put either his sonship, or the care of God's Providence to this trial:…

We have also told you before that they were from age to age to feel the fruit of this redemption, that the Lord by a continual progress might still be acknowledged the protector of that people whom he had so redeemed at the first. Our Prophet's meaning is then, that the Lord wil…

And yet the Prophet condemns not only the men of his age, but those also of the ages before. For we see that under the conduct of Moses himself, they rebelled and murmured against God (Exodus 17:2; Numbers 20:3). Hence it came, that God who tenderly loved them, as it is in verse…

Baxter's saints Rest, p. 768. Thus Moses by divine direction wrote a memorial of that victory obtained over Amalek as the fruit and return of prayer, and built there an Altar with this Inscription Jehovah Nissi, The Lord my Banner, Exodus 17. 14, 15. Thus Mordecai and Hester too…

Now this the Lord did twice. 1 (Exodus 17:6), when the people were in Rephidim, in the first year after their coming from Egypt, they fainted in their journeys for want of water, and (according to the wonted custom of that rebellious people) complained, with murmuring. So they e…

See (John 6:31, 32, 48, 49, 51; Revelation 2:17). A third signal preparation for the Law on the like occasion, and to the same purpose § 27 with the former, is repeated, (Exodus 17:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7). And all the Congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilder…

4. That the Israelites remember what Amalek did to them (Deuteronomy 25:15, 16). 5. That the memory of Amalek be blotted out from under Heaven (Exodus 17:14). 6. That War be undertaken and managed according to the Law (Deuteronomy 20:1).

The Amalekites shewed their Spight to Israel two ways. 1. They did lye in ambush; and as Israel passed by, fell upon their rear, and cut off the feeble in their army, 1 Samuel 15:2. 2. They did openly give Battel to them, and would have hindred them from going into Canaan, Exodu…

For although it happens that the faithful suffer many things from the wicked, and are as it were oppressed by them, it will nevertheless one day come about that those impious persecutors will render an account to God for all those things. Let that famous history in Exodus 17 be…

There must be no fainting, whatever discouragements happen. As there was a great deal of work to hold up Moses's hands in Israel's conflict with Amalek (Exodus 17:11-12): as long as he held up the rod of God, Israel prevailed — but Moses's hands were heavy; a sign of many infirm…

4. They are called proud, because of their insolent carriage towards the Lord's people, partly in their laws and injunctions, requiring to give them more honor, respect and obedience, than in conscience can be afforded them; as Haman would have Mordecai to devote himself to him…

But if yet the notion of those noxious corruptions cannot be utterly destroyed, but sins live, and are mighty abroad, and remain in the heart: this hatred is beyond all hope and possibility of reconciliation, admits no terms of peace, no condition of agreement that can be devise…

But they could not provoke him to passion, but to petition. Another time when they wanted water, they fell a-chiding with Moses (Exodus 17:3): Why is it that you have brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children with thirst? As if they said, If we die, we will lay our…

(James 4:3) You ask and have not, because you ask amiss, to spend it on your lusts (John 12:27-28; Psalm 145:18): this is to ask in truth, to act for a spiritual end; to make it our utmost end, arises from a special, peculiar, supernatural presence of the Spirit of life: and con…

What a Silence has been in the Heaven of many Churches, for this last half hour? How many that began with the Lord in that Work, did never Sacrifice at the Altar of Jehovah Nissi: nor considered that the Lord has sworn to have War with such Amalekites as are there, from Generati…

Read also (Deuteronomy 25:17-20). Remember what Amalek did to you in the day when you came out of Egypt, how he spoiled those that were feeble and weak with you, therefore blot out his remembrance from under Heaven (Exodus 17:16). All things fell out to them in types; Amalek was…

What is the matter? Why, the enemy had pursued his soul, and his spirit was like to quail within him; and so in some deep afflictions, then, Is the Lord among us or not? (Exodus 17:7). When plagued more than other men, then we seek to God right early; and when we come to good du…

Note the benefit hereof (2 Chronicles 13:14, etc.). Thus while Joshua and the people were fighting with the Amalekites, Moses stood lifting up his hand, and Aaron and Hur stayed his hand: this was an outward figure of their inward powerful prayer (Exodus 17:9, etc.). When Moses…

Now because some may haply say, that these examples of God and Christ, are too perfect for man to follow, who cannot imitate God in all things? therefore besides them, consider further the examples of some of the servants of God. Moses, when the people murmured at him, did not a…

But it may be observed that if any appeared to oppose God's work in those great temporal deliverances; or if there were any of his professing people, that on such occasions lay still, and stood at a distance, and did not arise and acknowledge God in his work, and appear to promo…

Sixthly, by audible voice (Exodus 20:1; Genesis 22:15). All which do end in writing (Exodus 17:14), which is a most sure and infallible way of the Lord's revealing his will to his people. Question 4.

Secondly, hence we may learn, that Magistrates which are to govern the people, ought to be men of courage in performing the duties of their calling. When too heavy a burden lay on Moses, in judging all the congregation himself; Jethro his father in law bids him provide among all…

It is sinful to sit down at meat, without thoughts of God. You shall see it is said (Exodus 18:12) that the Elders of Israel did eat bread with Moses his father in law before the Lord; that is, in his presence: when you are eating bread, you are before the Lord; as the eyes of a…

When the enemies of the Church are in combination, like thorns full of prickles folded together, then shall they be consumed like stubble that is dry (Nahum 1:10). God loves to defeat pride (Exodus 18:11): in the thing wherein they dealt proudly, he was above them. God waits but…

They may threaten great things to us, but God threatens greater. See (Exodus 18:11): Now I know that God is greater than all gods, for in the thing in which they dealt proudly God was above them. There is a greater being we have to depend upon.

There was a similar reason for these seventy. We know that Moses, finding himself insufficient for the burden, took seventy judges to be associated with him in governing the people, (Exodus 18:22; 24:1.) But when the Jews returned from the Babylonish captivity, they had a counci…

Some knowledge of the true God, was retained as it should seem until now among some of them, being received by tradition from their fathers. Moses' father in law, was a priest of this country (Exodus 2:15, 16), not altogether unacquainted with Jehovah (Exodus 18), and was himsel…

There is the same mistake in the last difference assigned. Moses did not so receive the Spirit of Prophecy, as that he could at his own pleasure reveal those things which were not discoverable but by that Spirit; or speak out the mind of God infallibly in any thing for the use o…

In which also, as the Jews say, he set a pattern to future judges, as determining the lesser causes speedily, but those wherein blood was concerned, not without stay and much deliberation. § 16 In the Wilderness the body of the people was cast into a new distribution, of thousan…

But the name is first expressed (Genesis 8:20), where both the matter and nature also of it is set down; Noah builded an altar, and took of every clean beast (Bullocks, Sheep and Goats) and of every clean fowl (Turtles and Pigeons) (this God had instructed him in) [〈 in non-Lati…

Then further, the word Elohim, is used in Scripture, not only for the true God, for God himself: but it is applied sometimes to Angels, and sometimes to Idols, to Devil gods, to false gods. (Exodus 18:11). Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods, namely, than all the I…

For, because kings cannot be omnipresent, nor omniscient, it is therefore necessary that they should hear with other men's ears, and see with other men's eyes, and act with other men's hands; and therefore they ought to make choice of such as are men of known fidelity and wisdom…

Carnal fear is an enemy to Religion. The Fear of God frights it away; it causes Courage, Exodus 18:21. Able men, such as Fear God: some Translations render it, Men of Courage.

The love of the world will make him altogether unfit for magistracy, ministry, the master of a family, or any such relation. In magistracy, who are the men that are qualified for that office (Exodus 18:22)? Such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness.

The greatness of his power is hereby discovered, and that he has laid salvation upon one that is mighty, that when all the power of darkness has proceeded to his highest pitch, when the subtleties of hell and all the venom of the corrupt heart of man furthered by all advantages,…

And by the way least this place may be thought to favor the Priests enquiring by Vrim, for the resolving of the controversie, because tis said, Then both the men between whom the controversie is, shall stand before the Lord, before the Priests and the Iudges, I shall to what I h…

It made Martha forget that one thing necessary, being encumbered with many things (Luke 10:4) — this breeds care which distracts the mind (so the word signifies, as dividing it), and so causes wandering thoughts nothing more, so that the mind is not itself. For this weakens it,…

And that so he might learn to fear the Lord his God, and not to exalt himself above his brothers. Now if kings whose heads and hands are most full of business, continually employed from morning to night (Exodus 18). If they be to read in the word all the days of their lives, how…

For thus Abraham after he had received the Angels into his tent, and prepared meat for them, served himself by them under the tree, giving attendance, while they did eat (Genesis 18:8). In like manner, when Moses sat in judgment, the people are said to have stood about him, from…

(3.) Because God only is true and infallible, and all men are liars (Romans 3:4; Hebrews 6:18). He is of incomprehensible wisdom (Psalm 147:5), of great goodness (Exodus 18:9; Romans 11:12; Psalm 34:8), of absolute power and dominion (Genesis 17:1; Psalm 50:1-2), of infallible t…

(4) Because, there is a particular example of a Synod, which had the power of Jurisdiction, and which consisted, and was made up of members, out of diverse Classical Conventions: For when the question about circumcision, and the keeping of Moses' Law, which troubled the churches…

If the enemies destroy the Church, it must be at a time when it is neither night nor day, for Christ keeps it day and night. Christ is said to carry his Church as the eagle her young ones upon her wings (Exodus 19:4). The arrow must first hit the eagle before it can hurt the you…

2. God adopts us to a state of dignity: God makes us heirs of promise; God installs us into honor (Isaiah 43:4): Since you were precious in my sight, you have been honorable. The adopted are God's treasure (Exodus 19:5), his jewels (Malachi 3:17), his firstborn (Hebrews 12:23).…

Question. What are the great arguments or incentives to obedience? Response 1. Obedience makes us precious to God; we shall be his favorites (Exodus 19:15). If you will obey my voice, you shall be a peculiar treasure to me above all people; you shall be my portion, my jewels, th…

God did put glory upon it in the manner of the promulgation of it. 1. The people before the Moral Law was delivered, were to wash their clothes (Exodus 19:10), whereby as by a type God required the sanctifying of their ears and hearts to receive the Law. 2. There were bounds set…

The gospel tells us of reigning, but first of suffering (2 Timothy 2:12). 2. It informs us that affliction is not always the sign of God's anger: Israel the apple of God's eye, a peculiar treasure to him above all people (Exodus 19:5). Yet these were in the house of bondage: we…

(3.) Having dressed our bodies, we must dress our souls for the hearing of the Word. As the people of Israel were to wash themselves before the Law was delivered to them (Exodus 19:10), so we must wash and cleanse our souls, and that is by reading, meditation and prayer. 1. By r…

(3.) That infect souls, namely by their scandalous lives. (Exodus 19:22) Let the priests which come near to the Lord sanctify themselves. Ministers who by their places are nearer to God, should be holier than others.

We read that the wicked are to be set at Christ's feet (Psalm 110), not at his table. (Matthew 7:6; Exodus 19:12) Quest. 7. How may we receive the Supper of the Lord worthily, that so it may become effectual to us?

And as these are all distinct in themselves, having several formal reasons of them, so they all concur to complete that effectual vocation or calling that is required to constitute persons members of the Church. For besides that this is signified by the typical holiness of the C…

In the special consent and agreement of all the members of it, to walk together in the observation of the same Ordinances numerically; hence its constitution and distinction from other Churches does proceed. Exodus 19:5, 8. Chapter 24:3, 7.

This difference the Apostle expresseth from the Prophet Jeremiah in the 9th verse of this Chapter, where it must be more fully spoken to. In brief, the first Covenant was made at the time that God brought the children of Israel out of Egypt, and took its date from the third mont…

From the things we have observed, it is fully evident both what was the Covenant that God made, and who were the Fathers with whom it was made. The Covenant intended it is none other but that made at Sinai, in the third month after the coming of the People out of Egypt (Exodus 1…

(1) As to the foundation, and substance of the whole in the Decalogue. He spoke it himself on the Mount, in the way and manner declared (Exodus 19:20). (2) As to the following judgments, statutes, and rites, directive of their walking before God, according to the former fundamen…

On God's part he was immediately called to this employment (Exodus 3). And on the part of the people he was chosen and desired by them to transact all things between God and them, in the making and confirmation of this covenant, because they were not able to bear the effects of…

He has taken them out of the world as out of the wild forest, and enclosed them to himself by a decree; or, (as the Greek carries it) they are a purchased people; the righteous are the purchase of Christ's blood, he will not lose his purchase. 11. God calls them a kingdom of pri…

O think solemnly upon that Scripture (Psalm 89:7): 'God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all that are round about him.' Why did God descend in thunderings and lightnings and dark clouds upon Sinai (Exodus 19:16-18)? Why did the…

So to Joshua (chapter 5:15). Hence Mount Sinai might not be touched (Exodus 19). And upon this account the mount where Christ was transfigured is called the holy mount (2 Peter 1:18), but this holiness continued only while that extraordinary presence continued, there is no more…

Therefore God principally next to himself loves his church. The whole earth is his, but the church is his treasure (Exodus 19:5). If you will keep my covenant, then shall you be a peculiar treasure to me above all people, for all the earth is mine — Segullah such a treasure, tha…

The Covenant taken thus is either the Covenant of Works, or the Covenant of Grace: and again the Covenant may be considered, first as it is personal, private and particular, between God and one particular soul, making Covenant with God, and God with him, either at his first conv…

The Elders and Priests are joined together both in the New Testament, as (Matthew 26:59) the chief Priests and Elders; so in other places before cited: and likewise in the Old Testament (Exodus 24:1), Come up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab and [illegible], and seventy of the…

We say when Cherries come at first, that they are Ladies meat, or Longing meat: Now the Lord is pleased to condescend so much to express his love to his people, as the love of a longing woman to Cherries or other fruit, when they come first of all; as a woman has a longing after…

Oh it is a sad expression, what Israel! a vessel employed and received to empty out excrements! [1. Israel were a people precious and honorable in the eyes of God (Isaiah 43:4). [2. An holy people to the Lord (Deuteronomy 14:2). [3. They were God's peculiar people above all nati…

You should also consider that other word (Romans 9:20): Who are you that reply against God? or expostulates with Him, Shall the thing formed, say to him that formed it, why have you made me thus? It's good to inquire and to seek to know the use the Lord calls for of this doctrin…

As melted, dissolved, and fallen in a swoon in Christ (Song of Solomon 5:6), and therefore needs in that swoon, to be recovered with the flagons of the wine and apples of his consolations (Song of Solomon 2:4). Nor can Jesus Christ but tenderly, lovingly, and compassionately dea…

1. Signs and wonders done in one age and time for the confirmation of the true religion, should suffice all ages and times afterward; and it is a tempting God to ask more signs and wonders, for the confirmation of that truth, which is sufficiently confirmed already, if there be…

This is altogether unknown to hypocrites, to the popish Sophisters and Schooldivines, and to all that walk in the opinion of the righteousness of the law, or of their own righteousness. But to the end that God might bridle and beat down this monster and this mad beast (I mean th…

For it is so tender a thing, that for a small sin it is so troubled and terrified, that it utterly despairs, unless it be raised up again. Therefore the law in its proper use has more strength and riches, than heaven and earth is able to contain: insomuch that one letter or one…

The Israelites say at Mount Sinai, that they will doe all things which the Lord shall command them. Exod 19:8. The young Prince said, that he had kept all the commandementsfrom his youth.

This favor then was continued to his successors, and in respect of the promise, God had a special care over the welfare of this people, as also Saint Paul says (Romans 9:4), that to them were given the covenants, the promises, and the law. For which cause this seed was called a…

As if he should say, Up until now the Lord has chosen you for his heritage only: but hereafter he will endow you with more excellent gifts, for he will make you Priests. Now however all the people were a kingdom of Priests (Exodus 19:6), yet we know that the Tribe of Levi only e…

As if he should say: Lord, if you would come down, the people would tremble at your presence, your adversaries would forthwith melt away. But I think it to be more natural, as I have translated it: for it is very sure that the Prophet alludes here to Mount Sinai (Exodus 19:20),…

But now all are indifferently received. Some expound this place generally, that the Gentiles shall be priests: that is to say, shall offer themselves to God; for so the scriptures in many places calls all by the name of a royal priesthood: (Exodus 19:6), (1 Peter 2:9), (Revelati…

Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice. They ought to profess a willingness of heart to embrace religion with all its difficulties, and to walk…

And the sound of a Trumpet, and a voice of words, which they that heard entreated that the Word should not be spoke to them any more; for they could not endure that which was commanded, and if so much as a Beast touch the Mountain it shall be stoned or thrust through with a dart…

As, 1. It was spoken immediately by the voice of God, in the hearing of all the people (Exodus 19), whereas all the other laws, whether ceremonial or judicial, were given peculiarly to Moses, and by him declared to the rest of the people. What weight is laid hereon, see Exodus 1…

And in the vision of Isaiah, chapter 6:1, they say it was [in non-Latin alphabet], so Kimchi, [in non-Latin alphabet], so Rashi; [in non-Latin alphabet], so the Targum. And they affirm, that it was the same which came down and appeared on Mount Sinai (Exodus 19:20), where those…

God that appeared. Exodus 19:20, 21, 22. Who gave the Law.

And these I call the remote preparations of the people for the receiving of the Law, consisting in three revelations of the grace of God in Christ, happening and granted to them, in the three months' space, which they spent between the Red Sea and their coming to the Wilderness…

And these, as I said before, being the rulers of the first families, were probably in number seventy; from where afterwards was the constitution of seventy elders for rule (Exodus 24:1). Thirdly, [in non-Latin alphabet] or priests, it may be in every private household, the first…

The preparation to the sacrifice, was a cleansing or a sanctifying of them. So (Exodus 19:20), when the people were to be prepared to receive the law, the Lord says to Moses, Go to the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, that is, prepare the people, or warn the people…

Such was the appearance that he gave of his glory in the giving of the law, whereby he will judge the world, and condemn the transgressors of it, who obtain not an acquitment in the blood of Jesus Christ. See the description of it in Exodus 19:16, 18. So terrible was the sight h…

Secondly, the mount on which God appeared was to be fenced and railed in, with a strict prohibition that none should presume to pass the bounds there set them, nor approach to touch the holy mount, under the penalty of death. So we have it (Exodus 19:12), which intimates to us t…

God being a Spirit, has no mouth nor tongue properly as men have, who have bodies, and therefore his way of speaking is not like ours (though sometimes he has created a voice in as articulate sound as if it had proceeded from the mouth of man to declare his will) but there are s…

O let it never seem a light thing in our eyes, that we grow within his blessed enclosure. How sweet a promise is that (Exodus 19:5), 'You shall be to me a peculiar treasure above all people; for all the earth is mine.'

They were such miracles, as had a reality in them; false miracles stand only in appearance, they have only a shadow and not the substance, they have no solidity in them, as the miracles that enchanters do, they are but [illegible], as we call them; they are only appearances, and…

This was food for the souls of believers, in these and on the like occasions, did the whole Church lift up their voice in that holy cry, Make hast our Beloved, and be you like to a Roe, or to a young Hart on the Mountain of Spices. OF the same nature was his Glorious Appearance…

The waters were dark indeed, but they were quiet, when the Spirit of God moved upon them, and out of them produced a beautiful world. This calm and sedate frame does very much qualify and dispose us for the reception and entertainment of divine visits, and sets bounds to the mou…

Here it has been represented to us by a building, a spiritual temple, and by a priesthood conform to it. The former is confirmed, and illustrated by testimonies of Scripture in the preceding verses, in this the latter, in these words: though it is not expressly cited, yet it is…

He careth for you. God to shew his tender anxiousness towards Israel, bare them as upon Eagles wings, Exodus 19:4. The Eagle carries her young ones upon her wing to defend them; the Arrow must first shoot through the Old Eagle, before it can touch her Young ones.

Use 2. To believe the commandments with a lively faith; we should be tender of disobeying God's law. The law may be considered as a covenant of works, or, as a rule of life: as a covenant of works, so it is satisfied by Christ for those that have an interest in him; and serves t…

Exodus 20:1-2. And God spoke all these words saying, I am the Lord your God, etc. Quest. What is the Preface to the Ten Commandments?

Exodus 20:2 I am the Lord your God, &c. 2. The preface itself, which consists of three parts: 1. I am the Lord your God: 2. Which have brought you out of the land of Egypt: 3. Out of the house of bondage.

(Exodus 20:1) I am the Lord, your God, etc. To all such as can make out this covenant-union, it exhorts to several things.

Exodus 20:2. Out of the House of Bondage. Egypt and the House of Bondage are the same, only they are expressed under a different notion.

Exodus 20:2 Who brought you out of the House of Bondage. We may consider these words, Who brought you out of the House of Bondage, either 1. Literally, or 2. Spiritually and mystically.

Exodus 20:2. Out of the House of Bondage. 2. These words are to be understood mystically and spiritually.

Exodus 20:3. You shall have no other gods before me, etc. Before I come to the commandment, I shall premise some things about the moral law: answer questions, rules.

Exodus 20:3. You shall have no other Gods before me, etc. Quest. Why does the Commandment run in the second person singular, You] why does not God say, You shall have no other Gods, but You?

Exodus 20:3 You shall have no other gods before me. 2. That we must have no other God: You shall have no other God before me.

Exodus 20:4 You shall not make to you any graven image, etc. In the First Commandment is forbidden the worshipping a false God, in this, the worshipping the true God in a false manner.

Exodus 20:6. Showing Mercy to Thousands, etc. This is another argument against image-worship, because such as do not provoke God with their images, he is merciful to them, and will entail mercy upon their posterity, showing mercy to thousands.

(Exodus 20:6) Of them that love me, &c. 1. God's mercy is for them that love him.

Exodus 20:6 And keep my Commandments. Love and obedience, like two sisters, must go hand in hand: indeed this is a good evidence of our loving God (John 14:21): If you love me, keep my Commandments.

(Exodus 20:7) You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless, etc. This commandment has two parts; first, a negative expressed, that we must not take God's name in vain, namely, cast any reflection or dishonor upon God's name.

Exodus 20:2 The Land of Egypt, etc. The second part of preface.

Exodus 20:5. For I the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation, of them that hate me. 1. I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God.] The first reason why Israel must not worship graven images, is bec…

To understand worldly affairs, there is the wisdom of the serpent; yet not neglect the soul, there is the innocency of the dove. God has said, Six days shall you labor (Exodus 20:9). Religion did never grant a patent to idleness: There is a lawful care to be had about secular th…

Exodus 20:8. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work.

Exodus 20:9-10. Six days shall you labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God; in it you shall do no manner of work, etc. Six days shall you labor — God would not have any live out of a calling; religion seals no warrant for idleness.

Exodus 20:10. 4. Having thus dressed your souls in a morning, for the further sanctification of the Sabbath, address yourselves to the hearing of the word preached.

Exodus 20:8. Remember the Sabbath-day to keep it holy, etc. 2. If you would hear the word aright, lay aside those things which may render the word preached ineffectual.

Exodus 20:8 Remember to keep the Sabbath-day holy. Use 1. See here a Christian's duty: to keep the Sabbath-day holy.

Exodus 20:12. Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God gives you. Having done with the First Table, I am next to speak of the duties of the Second Table.

Exodus 20:12. Honor your Father— Use 1. If we are to honor our fathers on earth, then much more our Father in Heaven.

Quest. Which is the Sixth Commandment? Resp. Exodus 20:13. You shall not kill. In this Commandment, (1.) is a sin forbidden, namely, murder. You shall not kill. (2.) A duty implied, to preserve our own life, and the life of others.

Exodus 20:12. You shall not kill. (3.) We must not injure another's soul.

Exodus 20:13. You shall not kill. 2. The second duty implied is that we should do all the good we can to ourselves and others.

Exodus 20:14. You shall not commit adultery. God is [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩], a pure holy Spirit, and has an infinite antipathy against all uncleanness.

Exodus 20:15. You shall not steal. As the holiness of God sets him against uncleanness, You shall not commit adultery, so the justice of God sets him against rapine and robbery, You shall not steal.

Exodus 20:16.You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. The tongue, which at first was made to be an organ of God's praise, is now become an instrument of unrighteousness.

Exodus 20:17. You shall not covet your neighbor's house, you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's. This commandment forbids, (1.) covetousness in general, You shall not cov…

Exodus 20:17. You shall not covet your Neighbor's house, you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, etc. I am in the next place to resolve a question, how we may do to cure this itch of covetousness?

Let us pray, Lead us not into temptation. Still bear in mind that Scripture (Exodus 20:13). You shall not kill.

And the comeliness and beauty of Gospel worship, consisteth in its relation to God by Jesus Christ, as the merciful high-Priest over his house, with the glorious administration of the spirit therein. The order also of it lies in the due and regular observation of all that Christ…

And (3) By their celebration is he glorified in the world: And therefore, (4) As he has made blessed promises to his people, to grant them his presence and to bless them in their use: So (5) Being the tokens of the marriage relation that is between him and them, with respect to…

For when God of old erected his worship, and enjoined the solemn observation of it, he also appointed a Church as his institution for the due celebration of it. That was, the people of Israel solemnly taken into a Church relation with him by covenant, wherein they took upon them…

It supposes, it declares, that of ourselves we are ignorant how God is, how he ought to be worshipped (Isaiah 8:20). Moreover it manifests him to be a jealous God, exercising that holy property of his nature in an especial manner about his worship; rejecting and despising every…

But God has altered and changed them at sundry reasons, according to the counsel of his own will, so as he saw necessary for his own glory, and the edification of his Church. See (Genesis 2:16, 17; Genesis 17:10, 11; Exodus 12:3, 4, 5; Exodus 20; chapter 25:9; Hebrews 1:1; Hebre…

Qu. 8. How many we sanctify the name of God in the use of Gospel institutions? Answ. 1. By a holy reverence of his sovereign authority appointing of them. 2. A holy regard to his special presence in them. 3. Faith in his promises annexed to them. 4. Delight in his will, wisdom,…

And this is common to all men: for every man may bless another, that is, pray to God for a blessing upon another; but especially it belongs to Parents thus to bless their children, by praying to God for a blessing upon them. And therefore the Commandment goes thus, Honor your fa…

This was his wrath and curse; and these were declared in the publishing of the Law on mount Sinai with the terrible appearances and dreadful voices that accompanied. This made the people stand afar off (Exodus 20:21), as an emblem of their condition with respect to the Law. (2)…

And Grotius speaks much to the same purpose. But this description of a Mediator is wholly applicable to Moses, and suited to his office in giving of the Law (see Exodus 20:19; Deuteronomy 15:27, 28). What is said by them does indeed immediately belong to the mediatory office of…

For so it is said, that the Law was given by the Disposition of Angels in the hand of a Mediator (Galatians 3:19). That is, of Moses; whom the People desired to be the internuncius between God and them (Exodus 20:19; Deuteronomy 5:24; Chap. 18. 16). Answ. (1.) Moses may be said…

Reason 2. (Exodus 20:8) And show mercy upon thousands in them that love me, and keep my commandments. Hence I reason thus: where reward is given upon mercy, there is no merit: but reward is given of mercy to them that fulfill the law: therefore no merit.

We on the contrary hold it unlawful for us to make any image in any way to represent the true God, or to make an image of anything in way of religion to worship God, much less the creature thereby. For the second commandment says plainly in Exodus 20:4: You shall not make for yo…

The Ark and Mercy Seat stood in the Sanctum Sanctorum, at the west end of the Temple, not the East, and the Jewish Synagogues both anciently, and now were built round, or in an oval manner: neither is there any law, or canon of the Church or state of England, for the building of…

For all additions are corruptive, being so directly contrary to this Command. If you lift up your tool upon the Altar, you have polluted it (Exodus 20:25). To polish, is to pollute.

And according to which Joshua did, in Joshua 8:30, and hence in Joshua 22:11. Now for the altar of God, I shall first show you a little the meaning of them, and then the reason why God would have but this one altar, in Exodus 20:24, there is an injunction of God for the altar of…

Consider only this: that they added a tenth commandment to the ten commandments of God, namely their own particular crime. The Decalogue is set forth in two places, Exodus 20, when the law was first given, and Deuteronomy 5, when it is solemnly repeated; in both places they inse…

Hence that saying of Aben-Ezra, in the Balance of the Holy Language: Whatever exposition shall not be according to the rationale of the accents, do not acquiesce in it, nor give ear to it. He has similar statements in other places; I will add only what he has in his Commentary o…

In the Old Law, had a man killed another unawares, he might take sanctuary; but if he had killed him willingly, though he did fly to the sanctuary, the holiness of the place was not to defend him. (Exodus 21:14) If a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor to slay him with gui…

And in this respect the Priesthood was given before the law. For although the moral law was given in the audience of the people before on the Mount, and an explication was given of it to Moses, as it was to be applied to the government of that people in judiciary proceedings, co…

God alone by virtue of his sovereignty, could dispense with the execution of this sentence of the Law, as he did in the case of David (2 Samuel 12:13), but as to the people, they were prohibited on any account to dispense with it, or forbear the execution of it (Numbers 35:31).…

For I do not judge there is any allusion in the expression, to the law of boring the ear of the servant that refused to make use of his liberty at the year of release. Nor is the word, used in that case, [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] but [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] (Exodus 21:6).…

This is presumptuous murder, his heart was in it, nor can it be said to be done ignorantly. There is another clear scripture, which proves that if persons fall out, and in the strife one shall strike the other a deadly blow, life shall go for life (see Exodus 21:14, 21, 22). But…

And so did Eli consent to the vileness of his sons, because though he reproved them he did not restrain them. There is a law (Exodus 21:29): If an ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it has been testified to his owner, and he has not kept him in, but that he has…

A soldier shoots an arrow at random, and God guides it to be the executioner of Ahab for his sin; which death was foretold by Micaiah (v. 17, 28). God gives us a certain rule to judge of such contingencies (Exodus 21:13): And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into hi…

In which sense the word Elders is taken (Genesis 50:7), as Tostatus and Rivetus expound that place. In the same manner we say of Deuteronomy 19:12, and in that case it is further to be remembered that the cities of refuge had a kind of a sacred designation and use, for the altar…

Proper to each. [Exodus 21:10. If he shall take another to himself, let him not diminish her food, her clothing, and benevolence due to her. Titus 2:3. Likewise to the old women, that they wear such apparel as may become holiness, not slanderers, not given to much wine, but teac…

7. God no more wills all, and every man to be saved, and come to believe; so they will all, and every one believe; than he wills all and every one to be damned; so they believe not and refuse the Gospel: the one will is as universal as the other. 8. It is no justice, that the ra…

By his example we are taught to make satisfaction for all injuries and hurts done to others, and that to the utmost. He that steals, according to the quality of his theft, must restore either twofold, or fourfold (Exodus 22:7); he that maims a man must pay for his healing, and f…

This law is a necessary fence to the fifth commandment, and upholds the honor that is due to parents. Example 5. He that strikes a man so that he dies, shall die the death (Exodus 21:12). To this law there is no exception made, but one, and that is, when a man is killed unawares.

And this shows, that the children in respect of their bodies, are the goods of their parents. In this respect, the Jews were permitted to sell their children (Exodus 21:7). And so sacred a thing was the authority of the parent, that he which rebelliously despised the same, was p…

Againe, if all sinne committed voluntarily, and willingly, were simply inexpiable, euery mans case were damnable. And though the word [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], signifie willingly, as Aristotle takes it, Eth. l. 3. c. 2. yet sometime it signifis, spitefully, and malitiously, a…

That which is commonly called the Moral Law, the Scripture terms [in non-Latin alphabet] (Exodus 34:28) the words of the Covenant, the ten words; from where is the Greek [in non-Latin alphabet], or the Law of ten words, or precepts: all which in their substance are moral, and un…

But who can imagine, what should move the LXX to render [in non-Latin alphabet] a word of a known signification and univocal, by [in non-Latin alphabet], when they had translated it an hundred and fifty times, that is constantly elsewhere, by [in non-Latin alphabet] and [in non-…

So that to do a thing for nothing is to do a thing without wages, without price. And there is the same interpretation of the word in Exodus 21:11, where Moses, speaking of the maid who was taken into the family and was not married, says, "If he does not do these three to her, th…

And certainly it is but fit and meet that we should give them the best and the most obliging language, who have taught us to speak; and to please them with our words, who have instructed us how to form them. Indeed, that rude and boisterous language which many of the sons of Bel…

But here we must look to it, that we be employed about lawful things; otherwise, if we be doing that which is unjustifiable, which accidentally proves to be the death of another, this cannot be excused from murder; and I am sure God exacts the same punishment for it. And therefo…

If there is a curse for him that smites his neighbor secretly (Deuteronomy 27:24), then he is double cursed that kills him. If a man had [reconstructed: slain] another unawares, he might take sanctuary, and fly to the altar: but if he had done it willingly, the holiness of the p…

Here was his greatest humiliation and suffering, by which principally he made satisfaction to the justice of God for the sins of men. First, his life was sold by one of his own disciples for thirty pieces of silver, which was the price of the life of a servant, as you may see in…

4. They ought not to marry while the time of their covenant for service lasts, unless their master gives consent to that. The law of God sets forth the lawful marriages of servants thus: "If his master has given him a wife" — by which is implied that if a servant marries, it mus…

Answer. No, not without the free consent of the servants themselves: for marriages must be made with the free consent of the parties that are married. Objection. The law implies that a master has power to give his servant a wife, for it shows whose those children shall be that a…

He is like the Servant under the Law. Exodus 21:5. I love my Master, I will not go out free.

The law of God condemned pits for tame beasts. (Exodus 21:33-34) If a man open a pit, or dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or ass fall therein: the owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money to the owners of them. Though it was lawful for hunters to take wild beast…

Adam was, and so were we the children of God by creation, God was our Father, who made us, and woe to him that strives with (and fights against) his Maker (Isaiah 43:9); it is woeful sinning against God as a Maker; Oh how unnatural it is to sin against our parents! So heinous wa…

In like sort, let me say, Come, squander away your time, even contrive to get the dead commodity off your hands; but know you that in the day, when God shall judge the world, all this time of yours must be accounted for. It was the law of old, in (Exodus 21:18), If one man smite…

So it is with many a sluggish [illegible], he is content to perish rather than do anything to deliver himself, he blesses himself in his misery and so is a devoted slave to the Devil. As (Exodus 21:6), if when the servant had his liberty to go out free, he said plainly I love my…

For example, when adultery was punished with death, fornication was punished with fifty shekels of silver, and with paying of money according to the dowry of virgins (Exodus 22:16, 17, compared with Deuteronomy 22:22, 28, 29). So, when stealing of men was death, stealing of oxen…

3. The substance and equity of the judicial law remains in that Christ and his Apostles make use of, transfer and prove by some judicial laws divers things under the New Testament. Christ makes use of a judicial law concerning punishment (Matthew 5:38, 39), an eye for an eye, an…

(Matthew 5:38): Eye for eye, tooth for tooth. (Exodus 21:24, 23): You shall give life for life. Give that piece of money for you and me (Matthew 17).

Being justified , so the LXX. render the Hebrew particle ; without price, without merit, without cause; and sometimes it is used for without end, that is, what is done in vain; as is used by the apostle, Galatians 2:21. without price or reward, Genesis 29:15. Exodus 21:22. 2 kin…

For what can you more ascribe to chance, than when a broken bough falling from a tree kills a wayfaring man passing by it? But the Lord says far otherwise, who confesses that he has delivered him into the hand of the slayer (Exodus 21:13). Likewise, who does not leave the happen…

No, but before he began, he foreknew and foretold the end. Go (said he to Moses) and declare to him my will, but I will harden his heart, that he obey not (Exodus 21). So when he stirs up Ezekiel, he warns him beforehand that he sends him to a rebellious and stubborn people, to…

6th Commandment: You shall not kill. He breaks this commandment: who bears malice to another (1 John 3:15); who is given to hastiness (Matthew 5:22); who uses inward fretting and grudging (James 3:14); who is froward of nature, hard to please (Romans 1:31); who is full of rancor…

Again, such beggars are thieves and robbers, because they steal their labor from the Church and Commonwealth, which is as profitable, as land and treasure. In the old Law, if two men strived together, and the one had wounded the other; the offender was enjoined, not only to pay…

How many contingencies did [illegible], his piercing eye run through, to foresee the crowning of Esther, for the deliverance of his people. In a word; known to God are all his works: now what can possibly be imagined to be more contingent, than the killing of a man by the fall o…

See Matthew 27:1 compared with Acts 2:23 and chap. 4:27, 28; Luke 24:26; John 19:34, 36. For the necessity of other events, see Exodus 21:17; Job 14:5; Matthew 19:7, &c. | Lib. Arbit. God's sustaining of all things is not an affirmative act of his power but a negative act of his…

Do they oblige any other now, further than the general equity thereof may require? No (Exodus 21:1 to the last verse; Exodus 22:1-29; Genesis 49:10; 1 Corinthians 9:8-10; 1 Peter 2:13-14; Matthew 5:17, 38-39). Well then, do not some err — though otherwise orthodox — who maintain…

(4) Because if the Magistrate shall neglect to inflict due punishment, the Lord himself will be avenged on that Magistrate. (1 Kings 20:42; Numbers 25:4.) (5) Because he that strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death. (Exodus 21:12.) (6) Because all that take th…

3. To commit the sin of theft against checks of conscience, and examples of God's justice; this is like the dye to the wool, it does dye the sin of a crimson color. 4. To rob the widow and orphan (Exodus 22:22). You shall not afflict the widow or fatherless: Peccatum clamans: If…

Now if men had not had a sense and understanding of the nature, lawfulness, and obligation from the light of nature of an oath, this would have been of no use nor signification to them. It is true that God did expressly institute the rite and use of swearing in judgment among hi…

His malice, in that, whereas he cannot overturn God himself, yet he labors to disturb the order which he has set down in the creation, and especially the image of God in the most excellent creatures on earth, that they may be in the same miserable condition with himself. His fra…

IV. Whoever he was, no one can doubt that he gave a notable specimen of defection from the principles of evangelical theology. Now from this impious mixture — which was the source and origin of the ecclesiastical defection that occurred first after the entrance of sin (Genesis 6…

None so merciful as those who have been once miserable; and they who have not only known misery but felt it, do more readily relieve and succor others. God bids Israel to pity strangers (Exodus 22:21): You shall neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him, for you were strangers in…

By his example we are taught to make satisfaction for all injuries and hurts done to others, and that to the utmost. He that steals, according to the quality of his theft, must restore either twofold, or fourfold (Exodus 22:7); he that maims a man must pay for his healing, and f…

Here note by the way, that they which have been born, baptized, and brought up among us, and yet afterward become Mass-priests, and seek maliciously and obstinately, without ceasing to seduce our people, deserve in this respect, to be put to death. Example 2. You shall not suffe…

In Numbers 30:6, the father may make void the vow of the child pertaining to God's worship: much more a matrimonial promise. If a young man defile a maid, and this be found, in equity he is to be compelled to marry her (Deuteronomy 22:28), yet by God's law this may not be, excep…

Faciamque ut quiescas; sive efficiam ut ipse tibi sit lenis & benignus; neque te ducat per rigidum, sed placide & clementer. This Angel, if we speak exactly, is the Angel the Redeemer, concerning whom it is written, my Name is in him (Exodus 22:21); that Angel who said to Jacob,…

11. That an Hebrew servant be well rewarded at the end of his service (Deuteronomy 15:14). 12. That we lend freely to the poor and needy (Exodus 22:25). 13. That the pledge be restored to the owner (Deuteronomy 24:13).

This is a sin that God has threatened with many severe curses and punishments. First, the temporal punishment which the Scripture awards to it, is a fourfold, and sometimes a fivefold restitution, as you may see (Exodus 22:1). And therefore Zacchaeus, when he was converted, offe…

Not by his permission only, but by his ordinance and appointment. And whereas a great and conspicuous part of the image of God consists in his sovereignty and dominion, he has so expressly stamped this image of his upon them, that for their likeness to him in it, he gives them t…

Neither indeed is it at all necessary, that the laws of every nation should be conformed to the laws which the Jews lived under; for doubtless each state has its liberty to frame such constitutions as may best serve to obtain the ends of government. And therefore although the pu…

But if the assault be sudden, and no way of escape visible, we may lawfully take away the life of him who unjustly seeks to take ours; for this is not a design to kill him, but to preserve ourselves. Indeed we find (Exodus 22:2) that God allows the killing of a thief, if he brea…

This law was not proper to the Jews only; but as a branch of the moral law it is pressed upon Christians (1 Corinthians 7:36-37). To this may be added the judicial law (if it be to be accounted merely judicial) of a parent's power in giving his daughter, or refusing to give her…

If we have eclipsed the good name of others, we are bound to ask them forgiveness; if we have wronged them in their estate by unjust or fraudulent dealing, we must make them some compensation. Thus Zacchaeus (Luke 19:8): if I have taken anything from any man by false accusation,…

The magistrate's duty qua magistrate in matters of religion proved, and yet with a difference of the Christian and heathen magistrate's power in such matters. p. 42, 43, 44 The commands in the Old Testament for magistrates punishing in matters of the first Table, as Exodus 22:13…

Let us but look into the Scriptures for the violation of other commands of God, as in the 6th, 7th and 8th Commandments, and we shall find that where the higher degrees and violations had greater punishments, the others went not scot-free. For example, when adultery was punished…

17. THESIS. Besides all the proofs in the Old Testament of Magistrates power de facto in matters of Religion, with commands given to them to look to see the true Religion settled in their Countries (which I have given in former Theses) there are many express commands given by Go…

1. Because the Lord so threatened Adam, as he remained free and absolute either to inflict the punishment, or to provide an Evangelical remedy, even as Solomon, (1 Kings 2:37) says to Shimei (in the day you pass over the brook Kidron, you shall surely die) that is, you shall be…

5. It necessarily must follow, if it be sin to eat, because the non-converted have no spiritual right in Christ, to bread, the converted may spoil by their grounds, all the non-converted, of their goods, houses, gold, gardens, vineyards, lands, and upon the same ground, for the…

Exodus 22:18 You shall not suffer a witch to live. This text contains one of the Judicial laws of Moses touching the punishment of witchcraft: which argument I have chosen to entreat of, for these causes:

If you delay your repentance till then, perhaps this will be your bitter cry when you shall feel your departing soul going into the other world. And you that are young, remember what the Scripture says, You shall not delay to offer the first of your ripe fruits (Exodus 22:29). I…

The law of God forbids to steal. What penalty was appointed for thefts in the civil state of the Jews, is to be seen in Exodus (Exodus 22:1). The most ancient laws of other nations punished theft with recompense of double: the laws that followed afterward, made difference betwee…

Now, it is the law of nature and nations, that a man may defend his life and health, in some cases, upon just occasion. Secondly, this is God's law (Exodus 22:2): If a thief be found breaking up a house, and be smitten that he die, no blood shall be shed for him. Abraham was a s…

Luke 6:35: Lend, looking for nothing again. Exodus 22:25: If you lend money to the poor with you, you shall not be a usurer to him, you shall not oppress him with usury. Thirdly, by remitting due debt, in case of men's decay and extreme poverty.

Do they oblige any other now, further than the general equity thereof may require? No (Exodus 21:1 to the last verse; Exodus 22:1-29; Genesis 49:10; 1 Corinthians 9:8-10; 1 Peter 2:13-14; Matthew 5:17, 38-39). Well then, do not some err — though otherwise orthodox — who maintain…

If then such magistrates ought to be honored upon that account, much more Christian magistrates. (5) Because, if we be obliged not to speak evil of dignities (2 Peter 2:11), nor revile the gods (Exodus 22:8), we are obliged to honor dignities, for where a sin is forbidden, the c…

2. There is but one omnipotent power. If there be two omnipotents, then we must always suppose a contest between these two; that which one would do, the other power being equal would oppose, and so all things would be brought into a confusion. If a ship should have two pilots of…

1. They make him better, and are lodestones to draw him nearer to God. 2. He has his Father's blessing with them: a little blessed is sweet (Exodus 23:25). He shall bless your bread and your water.

That we may be content with daily bread — that which God in his providence carves out to us — and not covet or murmur, let me propose these things. 1. God can bless a little (Exodus 23:24): He will bless your bread and your water. A blessing put sweetness into the least morsel o…

And God accordingly appointed them ordinances to be observed by the whole congregation of them together at the same time, in the same place. "Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God" (Exodus 23:17). "Three times in a year all your males shall…

Behold, says he of him, my servant whom I uphold, mine Elect in whom my Soul delights, or is well pleased, [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩] (Matthew 3:17). When he undertook this office, and said, Lo I come to do your Will, O God, the Soul of God rested in him (Exodus 23:21; John 5:20,…

Our knowledge in this life is imperfect. Exodus 23: Moses may not see God's face, but his hinder parts. 1 Corinthians 13:12: We may see God as men do, through spectacles in his word, sacraments, and creatures.

This is Charity to souls when we see men in the gall of bitterness, and we labour by counsel, admonition, reproof, to pull them out of their natural estate as the Angel did Lot out of Sodom; Genesis 19. 6. God made a Law, Exodus 23. 5. that whoever did see his enemy's ass lying…

Quest. 3. The next question is, who is meant by Michael the Arch-Angel. Michael is the name of his person, and Arch-Angel of his office; Michael signifies, he is strong God, or who is like the strong God; and therefore some apply it to Jesus Christ, who in many places of Scriptu…

Here (say they) is a prayer made to angels. Answer: By the angel is meant Christ, who is called the angel of the covenant (Malachi 3:1) and the angel that guided Israel in the wilderness (1 Corinthians 10:9 compared with Exodus 23:20). Objection 2.

There is one kind of singularity you must always maintain, namely the singularity of a holy life (Ephesians 4:17). This I say therefore, and testify, in the Lord, that you henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk: and (Exodus 23:2) you shall not follow a multitude to do evil.…

Our knowledge in this life is imperfect. Moses may not see God's face, but his hinder parts (Exodus 23). We may see God as men do, through spectacles, in his word, sacraments and creatures (1 Corinthians 13:12).

To the first ripe fruits, to the first of your years, to you that are young ones: We prize highly Nettle buds when they bud out first; Oh! so graciousness when it buds out in youth at first, Oh how pleasing is it to God! In (Exodus 23:19) God would have the first of the first fr…

And as it was related to that, it was its eastern boundary. It is so spoken of (Genesis 15:18; Exodus 23:31; Deuteronomy 1:7 and 11:24; Joshua 1:4; 2 Samuel 8:3; 1 Chronicles 18:3; 1 Kings 4:21; Ezra 4:20). Agreeable to this diverse respect or relation of this river, under which…

Use 2: It gives a great commendation to the grace of God in Christ Jesus; it makes grace wonderfully glorious, that takes the sinner at this nick, and in this pinch. We shall not dispute here; nor is it needful, nor edifying, whether God might have forgiven sin freely, without a…

[Son, remember you in your lifetime you received your good things, and Lazarus evil, etc.] says Abraham to the soul of Dives in hell (Luke 16:25). [Remember me when you come into your Kingdom] said the good thief to Christ; And (Revelation 1) I am he (says Christ) that was dead,…

God bids Israel to pity strangers (Exodus 22:21): You shall neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him, for you were strangers in the Land of Egypt. They knew what it was to be exposed to the envy and hatred of the neighbors in the land where they sojourned (Exodus 23:9): For you k…

So their murmuring might be called a tempting of Christ. Christ was the perpetual head of the church, who in his own person did lead the people, and was present in the midst of them under the notion of the angel of the covenant: the Eternal Son of God guided them in the wilderne…

Answer: So long as men are curable, means must be used to recover them. The sheep or ox that goes astray, must be brought home again (Exodus 23:4), much more your neighbor. Christ himself brings home again the lost sheep, and so must every shepherd (Ezekiel 34:4).

Let us consider the good Samaritan's practice: Albeit there was mortal hatred between the Jews and the Samaritans (John 4:6), yet he seeing his deadly enemy wounded and half dead, had compassion upon him; poured wine and oil into his sores, bound up his wounds, set him on his ow…

Answer. This is very true, but the Prophet aimed at that which falls out for the most part, and yet notwithstanding meant not to spare the vices which he expressed not. By whose example good teachers ought to be wise and well advised in considering and correcting those vices whi…

It was not of their own accord, but by a divine command, that they undertook this annual journey. The law enjoins the males "only to appear before the Lord," (Exodus 23:17.) This arrangement does not entirely exclude females, but spares them by an exercise of kindness.

I am more inclined to favor those who understand by it the second festivity in the year; and this agrees exceedingly well with the name given to it, the second-first Sabbath, because, among the great Sabbaths which were annually observed, it was the second in the order of time.…

This is a notable comfort that we Christians have, in that we may say: the word which I preach, is none of my own, neither is my faith my own; they are all the works and the gifts of God: He who reviles and rails on me, reviles and rails on God: according to Christ's own saying…

Or burning coals, dreadful judgments, mortal weapons, as fire and flames are often taken in other descriptions of God's dealing with his enemies (Psalms 11:6, 18:8): prevailing fire is the most dreadful means of destruction (Hebrews 12:29, Isaiah 33:14). Exodus 23:28, God threat…

For there are some places of Scripture which seem so far to give countenance to them, that if they mistake in their application, it is a mistake of no other nature but what others are liable to, in things of greater importance. For it is given as the will of God (Exodus 23:13),…

But that the Son of God did mostly appear to the Fathers under the Old Testament, is acknowledged by the Antients, and is evident in Scripture: See (Zechariah 2:8, 9, 10, 11). And he it was who is called the Angel (Exodus 23:20, 21). The reason that is pleaded by some, that the…

The Ministry of Angels how used therein. Exodus 23:20, 21, 22, 23. Chapter 33:2, 3, 4, 13, 14.

Jews acknowledge the figurative nature of this ordinance. Of frontlets and phylacteries, Exodus 23:9. Signs and memorials.

5. Acknowledgment of God's Righteousness in Afflictions (Deuteronomy 8:5). 6. Prayer to God (Exodus 23:25; Deuteronomy 11:13). 7. Adherence to God (Deuteronomy 10:20).

Yet more exactly, it is not only said, he rose in the morning (for there is a great latitude in the morning, there are various hours which all are called morning) but it is said he rose early in the morning, in the very beginning or first of the morning. As it is commanded (Exod…

For whoever are thus partial, want that courage and firmness that ought to be in a magistrate, and should make him as inflexible as the rule of justice itself is; neither being frightened by the power or threats of those who are great, nor melted or softened with the cries of th…

"In that same day the Lord made a covenant with Abraham, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt, unto the great river, the river Euphrates." So again God promised at Mount Sinai, Exodus 23:31. "And I will set thy bounds from the Red Sea even unto t…

Though your children dare not tell you so, yet perhaps they cannot but think that you are very unfit to command them who are so very unable to command yourselves. Time was when you were yourselves children, and scholars, and perhaps servants and apprentices, and so (if you will…

God chargeth us to be singular, Matthew 5:47. to be circumspect, Ephesians 5:15. to be separate from Idolaters, 2 Corinthians 6:17. to shine as Lights in the World, Philippians 2:15. He forbids us to symbolize with Sinners, or doe as they doe: the way to Hell is a beaten road, t…

Verily you shalt be fed. God has not promised dainties; he will not satisfie his Peoples lusts, but he will supply their wants; if the Bill of Fare grows low, what they lack in chear, they shall have in blessing, Exodus 23:25. He will bless your bread and your water.

And that of the Jewish elders who said (Matthew 28:12-13), "Say you, his disciples came and stole him away while we slept." All these are severely forbidden, but especially in point of witnessing in courts of judicature (Exodus 23:1): "Put not your hand with the wicked to be an…

This is soul-mercy. God made a law (Exodus 23:5) that whoever saw his enemy's donkey lying under a burden, he should help him. On which words Chrysostom says: We will help a beast that is fallen under a burden; and shall we not extend relief to those who are fallen under a worse…

God give you of the dew of heaven; which was not only a prayer for Jacob, but a prophecy of that happiness and blessing which should come upon him and his posterity. Thus every adopted child has his heavenly Father's benediction, there is a special blessing distilled into all th…

The small number of those who embrace religion argues that the way of religion is excellent. We are warned not to go with the crowd (Exodus 23:2); most fish go into the devil's net. The second prejudice is that the ways of religion are made to appear ugly by the scandals of thos…

They will hardly be able to run the heavenly race who have old age and old sins upon them. Run the pathway, not the road-way; hell-road is full of travellers; most go wrong (Exodus 23:2): you shall not follow a multitude to do evil. The multitude does not consider what is best,…

Now therefore if in evangelical ordinances and commands, in points of worship and graces under the time of the new Testament, where there is still one and the same manner of administration of the Covenant of grace, there may be such a non-obligation in respect of accessories and…

(5) It's wicked stoutness to rest upon your own righteousness and refuse to treat with God (Isaiah 46:12-13). (6) And vain stoutness to dare God in his own quarters and fight him (Exodus 14:8, 23; Exodus 23:8, 13; Isaiah 36:10-11, 36-37), if it were in his own seas as Pharaoh an…

And v. 35. Moses is made a Ruler and a deliverer by the hands of the Angel that appeared to him in the bush. This is Christ, the Angel (Malachi 3:1), the Angel of the covenant, whom they tempted (1 Corinthians 10:9), of whom the Lord said (Exodus 23:21), Beware of him, and obey…

4. With him must the Covenant of Redemption be made in his way; of whom God says, verse 25: I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. The Chaldean Paraphrase expounds his hand to be his power and command, which extends to the Euphrates, as is promise…

Do justice to the Afflicted and Poor; that is, justify them in their cause against Wrong and Oppression. Exodus 23:7. I will not justify the wicked; absolve, acquit, or pronounce him righteous.

What communion has light with darkness? How can the righteous God indulge him that goes on still in his trespasses? (Exodus 23:7). I will not justifie the wicked.

And let the name of the Lord not only be upon you, but also in you. As we have it in Exodus 23:21, spoken of the Angel that went with them in the wilderness: 'My name is in him' — my name is not only upon him, so that he is not only called my Angel, but my name is also in him. T…

You forget that part of his office — half the end for which Christ came into the world. And if you would know what kind of governor he is: Exodus 23:21 — 'I will send my Angel with you,' says God (that is, Christ) — 'beware of him and obey his voice, and do not provoke him, for…

2nd Commandment: You shall make to yourself no graven image, etc. He breaks this commandment: who represents God in an image (Exodus 32:6-8); who worships God in or at images, as crucifixes and such like (2 Kings 18:4); who kneels down before an image; who is bodily present at M…

The meditation of this, would, 1. Keep us from marching along with the multitude. You shall not follow a multitude, Exodus 23:2. The multitude usually goes wrong; most men walk, [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], after the course of the world, Ephesians 2:2.

Q. 1. What does God require of us in our dependance on him, that he may be glorified by us, and we accepted with him? Answ. That we (a) worship him (b) in and by the ways of his own appointment. (a) Matthew 4:10. Revelation 14:7. Deuteronomy 6:13. chap. 10:20. (b) Leviticus 10:1…

That was, the people of Israel solemnly taken into a Church relation with him by covenant, wherein they took upon themselves to observe all the laws, and ordinances, and institutions of his worship (Exodus 20:19). "Speak you with us, and we will hear" (Exodus 24:3). "And Moses c…

Quest. 20. By what means do persons so called become a Church of Christ? Answ. They are constituted a Church, and interested in the rights, power, and priviledges of a Gospel-Church, by the will, promise, authority, and law of Jesus Christ, upon their own voluntary consent and e…

It is here plainly comprehensive of all that he has denied to the law, priesthood, and sacrifices of the Old Testament, with the whole church-state of the Hebrews under it, and the effects of their ordinances and services. As, (1.) A complete dedication to God, in opposition to…

4. These things being observed, we may consider that the Scripture does plainly and expresly make mention of two Testaments or Covenants, and distinguish between them in such a way, as what is spoken can hardly be accommodated to a twofold administration of the same Covenant. Th…

The Covenant intended it is none other but that made at Sinai, in the third month after the coming of the People out of Egypt (Exodus 19:1), which Covenant in the nature, use and end of it, we have before described. And the Fathers were those of that Generation, those who came o…

The end represented in and by them, was to make atonement for sin, that the anger of God being pacified, they might have peace with him. The covenant was then newly established between God and the Church, before any laws were given about these offerings and sacrifices (Exodus 24…

First to sanctify them, then to perfect them, was the design of Christ in offering of himself, which he purposed not for all men universally. So in the foundation of the church of Israel, they were first sanctified, and dedicated to God in, and by the sacrifices wherewith the Co…

In the exposition of this context we must do three things: (1) Consider the difficulties that are in it. (2) Declare the scope, design, and force of the argument contained in it. (3) Explain the particular passages of the whole. 1. Sundry difficulties there are in this context w…

The consideration hereof, the Apostle on set purpose fixed on, as the great concomitant, privilege or glory of the first Covenant whereof he treats; and whose consideration was excellently suited to his design. Immediately on the giving of the Law and making that Covenant in Hor…

And the especial nature of any church-state, does depend on the especial nature of those institutions, which is constitutive of the difference between the church-state of the Old Testament and that of the New. 3. Such a church-state was constituted and appointed under the Old Te…

Acceptation of God's offer upon God's terms, Job 5:27. Know you it for your good, put in for these hopes and take God to his word upon this confidence, make good your part of the stipulation in the Covenant, and he will not fail you, this application there must be in all, an ans…

It is enough for us that we find in the Jewish Church, some Elders joined with the Priests, and employed in things ecclesiastical. The Elders and Priests are joined together both in the New Testament, as (Matthew 26:59) the chief Priests and Elders; so in other places before cit…

For with very few exceptions — those whom they call and curse as Karaites — the religion of the whole nation has rested for many centuries upon this fiction. But since no mention is made anywhere in the sacred writings of this oral law; since students of God's law are nowhere re…

They gave themselves first to the Lord, and then to us by the will of God, when we have bestowed ourselves upon God, he is not wanting to receive us, to be his people. Now for further opening of this, it was said this covenant was made with God by way of sacrifice (Psalm 50:5,7)…

When Abraham went to worship in the mount, he left his servants below in the valley, lest they should obstruct his communion with God. When Moses was to go up to the Lord, though Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders went further than the people, yet the text says, they…

Sixthly, the law has Moses for the mediator (Deuteronomy 5:27), but Christ is the mediator of the new testament (Hebrews 8:6). Lastly, the law was dedicated by the blood of beasts (Exodus 24:5), and the new Testament, by the blood of Christ (Hebrews 9:12). Here then falls to the…

Life is promised, but it must be sought only in the death and resurrection of Christ. This too is the reason why God commanded of old, that the book of the law should be sprinkled with the blood of the sacrifice, (Exodus 24:8; Hebrews 9:19, 20.) It is also worthy of notice, that…

Let us therefore learn that, by the guidance of the Spirit, Christ withdrew from the crowd of men, in order that he might come forth as the highest teacher of the church, as the ambassador of God, — rather as sent from heaven, than as taken from some town, and from among the com…

22. That the whole increase of the land every seventh year be common to all (Exodus 23:10, 11). 23. That the seventh year be a year of rest to the whole land (Exodus 24:21; Leviticus 25:2). 24. That the year of the Jubilee be reckoned by the years of rest, or weeks of years (Lev…

These Moses and Aaron gathered together at their first coming into Egypt (Exodus 4:29). And these, as I said before, being the rulers of the first families, were probably in number seventy; from where afterwards was the constitution of seventy elders for rule (Exodus 24:1). Thir…

And after the second Veil, the Tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all, which had the Golden Censor, and the Ark of the Covenant, overlaid round about with Gold, wherein was the Golden Pot that had Manna, and Aarons Rod that budded, and the Tables of the Covenant: And over…

For the Priests are not comprised in any other member of the distribution before mentioned, particularly not in that wherein with any color they might be looked after, namely, the [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], v. 27, the people of the Land, that is, the common people, from whom t…

I desire then to know, from where it is that all the circumstances of the giving and teaching of the less necessary are so exactly recorded, but not one word is spoken of this Orall Law, either of Gods revealing of it to Moses, or of Moses teaching of it to Joshua or any others;…

It may be good for us sometimes to be in such a condition, and then that desertion that carries into it, is from the presence of God; we are now grown to that, that if every thing immediately surmount not our imagination, say some, God is gone from them, not because it is so, bu…

Wait awhile, and you shall be possessed of a kingdom. When Moses went up to receive God's commands, he stayed six days on the Mount, and on the seventh day, God called to him (Exodus 24:16). Though we wait long, and have not the thing waited for, yet let us continue doing our du…

So it was a human form in which Christ appeared to the seventy elders, of which we have an account. Exodus 24:9-11: "Then went up Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel." "And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet, as it were a p…

Was the ceremonial law dedicated by [reconstructed: blood]? Yes, the Apostle plainly asserts it from Exodus, Hebrews 9:18-19, Exodus 24:7-8. Moses took the book of the covenant, and read it in the audience of the people, and took the blood, and sprinkled it upon the people, and…

Now our answer to this demand of God, and to this interrogatory he puts to us in the covenant, it is sealed by us in baptism; and it is renewed in the Lord's Supper. Look as in the old sacrifices, they were all a renewing of the oath of allegiance to God, or confirming their pur…

For so Paul (Romans 10:5-7, etc.) expounds Moses (Deuteronomy 30:11-14). 4. The Covenant of Works taught nothing of the way of expiation of sin by blood typifying the Ransom of blood that Christ was to pay for our sins, as this Covenant all along had sacrifices and blood to conf…

Hence by way of excellency he calls it the Covenant, the Covenant of the Lord (Jeremiah 2[illegible]:9; Deuteronomy 4:23; Joshua 23:11); My Covenant, says the Lord (Genesis 17:7, 9, 10; Exodus 19:5; Psalm 50:16); His Covenant (Psalm 105:8); He remembered his Covenant forever (Ps…

This promise is not formally made to Christ, yet it is a special Covenant-promise (Jeremiah 31; Ezekiel 11; Hebrews 8); for there is no stony heart in Christ, yet the promise is laid down in him, and made to him, eminenter; for by the merit of his blood (for he sanctified the pe…

If you believe, you may be baptized: I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of the living God; if you believe there is no salvation but in Christ, whether you feel the comfort of it, yes or no, if you believe there it is to be had, you may be baptized, wait therefore upon every…

Such mistakes as these you ever and anon fall into, and I fear for want of being conversant in Holy Writ, which it seems your principles prompt you to a neglect of. Sir, the tables prepared by Moses were no less written with the finger of God than those were which he first prepa…

This divine worship God is very jealous of; this is the apple of his eye, this is the pearl of his crown which he guards as he did the tree of life, with cherubim and a flaming sword, that no man may come near to violate it: divine worship must be such as God himself has appoint…

Answ. 1, Read the Bible with reverence; think every line you read God is speaking to you. The ark wherein the law was put was overlaid with pure gold, and was carried on bars that the Levites might not touch it (Exodus 25:14). And why was this?

1. The Introduction to the Lord's Prayer, sic orate vos, After this manner pray you.] Our Lord Jesus in these words prescribed to his disciples and us a directory for prayer. The Ten Commandments are the rule of our life, the Creed is the sum of our faith, and the Lord's Prayer…

What duties we are to do, what sins we are to avoid. God gave Moses a pattern how he would have the tabernacle made, and he was to go exactly according to the pattern (Exodus 25:9). The word is the pattern God has given us in writing for modeling our lives; therefore how careful…

If obedience has not the Word for its rule, it is not doing God's will but our own, it is [in non-Latin alphabet], will-worship (Deuteronomy 12:32). The Lord would have Moses make the Tabernacle, [in non-Latin alphabet], according to the pattern (Exodus 25:40). If Moses had left…

Question 2. By what means do we come to know that God will thus be worshipped? That God is to be worshipped, and that according to his own will and appointment, is a principal branch of the law of our creation, written in our hearts (Romans 1:21; Romans 2:14-15; Acts 15:16-17; A…

Christ by his death has freed me from the whole Ceremonial Law, so that if I consent to rear again what Christ by his death has abolished, I crucify Christ, make myself guilty of his blood, and as much as in me lies, expel him out of the Nation. Now, the Ceremonial Law has his c…

This was the nature, use and end of the Tabernacle of old. God dwelt therein in the signs and pledges of his presence, and was on the account thereof the God of that people, according to the terms of the Covenant between them (Exodus 25:8; Revelation 21:3). That therefore wherei…

We must first consider the reading of these words by reason of the testimony which the Apostle quotes out of the Law, and his rendring thereof. The words in the original (Exodus 25:40) are [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩] And look (or take heed) and make after their pattern which was s…

This with the Mercy-Seat wherewith it was covered, was the most glorious and mysterious utensil of the Tabernacle and afterwards of the Temple; the most eminent pledge of the divine presence, the most mysterious representation of the holy properties of his Nature in Christ. This…

(3.) Their use; they Shadowed the Mercy-Seat. The making, form, fashion and use of these Cherubims is declared (Exodus 25). The signification of the name, and their original shape or form, any farther then that they were alata animata, winged creatures, are not certainly known.

Some of them contend that the Apostle has respect to the Temple of Solomon wherein were ten Candlesticks, five on the one side and five on the other (1 Kings 7:49), which is directly contrary to his scope and the words of the text. Some suppose that the one Candlestick which was…

But Christ the substance being come, and all the types and shadows therefore done away, there are not, there cannot be typical places, or typical holiness in places in these times. 3. Those places of old were holy by virtue of God's institution, who did appoint and sanctify them…

For we are often charged neither to add nor diminish from God's appointments: whatever thing I command you, observe and do it, you shall neither add thereto nor diminish from it (Deuteronomy 12, last). And in many other places, the Lord gave it strictly in charge to Moses (Exodu…

They add further the testimony of Aben-Ezra, whose greater antiquity and authority they invoke. He, however, in his commentary on Exodus 25:31 has these words: I saw in the books that the sages of Tiberias examined, concerning which certain of their elders swore that they had ca…

Moreover, the Hebrew word sometimes signifies "to give," or at least "to receive with the mind and purpose of giving": Hosea 14:2, "Receive good" — that is, "Give us grace" — or, as our own translators render the sense, "Receive us graciously" — that is, "Be You the bestower of…

Angels have eyes within and without (Revelation 4:6), to behold the beauty of the Lord, and it takes up their eyes always to behold his face; and there is no beauty of truth they desire more to behold — [in non-Latin alphabet] (1 Peter 1:12) — as to stoop down, and to look into…

But I had rather take it here for covenant, or agreement. For the Lord speaking of the Tabernacle of the covenant in Exodus, says, 'I will there make appointment with you' (Exodus 25:21, 22, 29, 42). We must not think then that he speaks here of an assembly of men, as when the p…

For however obscurely and at a distance Moses may exhibit Christ in shadows, rather than in a full portrait, (Hebrews 10:1,) this, at least, is beyond dispute, that unless there be in the family of Abraham one exalted Head, under whom the people may be united in one body, the co…

The Holy Ghost himself, has been pleased to put that Matter out of Doubt, by representing his Church by such a golden Candlestick, with seven Lamps, in the fourth Chapter of Zechariah, and representing the seven Churches of Asia by seven golden Candlesticks, in the first Chapter…

§ 7 The second Family, of the first general Head of Affirmative precepts, contain those which concern the Sanctuary and Priesthood, being nineteen in number. 1. That a Sanctuary, Tabernacle, or Temple should be built (Exodus 25:8). 2. That being built, it should be reverenced (L…

But their names are far distant in the original both in sound and signification, this was [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩], Aaron, a chest, it may be from [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩], a certain wood whereof such chests were made; that was [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩], Tebah, the name of any…

2. To be kept as things of price; as jewels and treasures are hidden in chests and secret places, that they may not be embezzled or purloined. And herein there may be an allusion to the law, which was kept in a chest or ark (Exodus 25:21). Thus the word is hidden, not in order t…

Now because the word of God branches itself into two parts, the Law and the Gospel, this notion may be applied to both. First, To the Law, in regard of which the Ark is called the Ark of the Testimony (Exodus 25:16), because the two Tables were laid up in it. The Gospel is also…

When God gave the law, the mount was on fire and trembled (Exodus 19:18), that the people might prostrate themselves more reverently before the Lord. The ark wherein the law was put was carried upon poles so that the Levites might not touch it (Exodus 25:11-14), to show what rev…

When a believer can call nothing his own, he can say all is his. The tabernacle was covered with rough skins on the outside (Exodus 25), yet most of it was gold within. So a saint may have a poor covering, ragged clothes, but he is inlaid with gold — Christ is formed in his hear…

He is the Candlestick of this House. The making, fashioning, and use of the Candlestick, in the holy place of the Tabernacle, you have (Exodus 25:31 &c.). It was one of the most glorious utensils of that frame: made of pure and beaten Gold, with much variety of works, knops, flo…

Thirdly, the declaration of the mind of the Lord in these two examples, was no Answer by Vrim; for besides that there is no mention in the text of the high Priest being spoken to put on the Ephod to enquire by Vrim, neither doe any Interpreters, understand it so, both the texts…

The covenant is founded upon Christ, and is sealed in his blood. We read of the mercy seat, which was a divine hieroglyph, typifying Jesus Christ (Exodus 25:17). There will I meet you, and I will commune with you from above the mercy seat, verse 22.

Beloved, the time is now of giving honor to God, and giving Glory to God, but your being where Christ is, God then gives you Glory and gives you Honour. Fourthly, your happiness in being present with Christ where hee is, is that you shalt stand in no need of Ordinances: beloved,…

Then I asked him what I must do when I came; and he told me I must entreat upon my knees (Psalms 95:6; Daniel 6:10), with all my heart and soul (Jeremiah 29:12-13), the Father to reveal him to me. Then I asked him further, how I must make my supplications to him; and he said, Go…

Does the communion of saints, which they have one with another, take away or infringe the title, or property which each man has in his own goods, and possessions? No. (Acts 5:4; Exodus 25:14; Ephesians 5:28.) Well then, do not the Anabaptists err, who affirm, that the goods and…

Designing to treat of this holy tent or Tabernacle, he confines himself to the first general distribution of it. Exodus 26:33: And you shall hang up the veil under the taches, that you may bring in there the Ark of the Testimony, and the veil shall divide to you, between the Hol…

This the Apostle here reckons as a vail, because as by this vail the Priests were hindered from entering into, or looking into the most Holy Place, so by that other the people were forbidden to enter or look into the first part of the Sanctuary, whereinto the Priests entered dai…

They entred into the first Tabernacle, but they went no further. Hereinto they entred through the first Vail, or the covering of the Door of the Tabernacle (Exodus 26:36, 37). Through that vail by turning it aside, so as that it closed immediately on their entrance, the Priests…

Concerning this part of the Tabernacle, the Apostle affirms that it was called [in non-Latin alphabet], Holy. This name of it was given and stated (Exodus 26:33): The Vail shall divide [in non-Latin alphabet] between the Holy, that is, that part of the Sanctuary, and the most Ho…

Rabbi Azarias also, in the Imre Bina, chapter 9, affirms that this same Jonathan composed the translation of both the Pentateuch and the prophets. Those who hold a different opinion rest their case chiefly on the argument that it is established by the most certain indications th…

“Cependant que le service, qui avoit les ombres de la Loy, a duré;” — “so long as the service, which contained the shadows of the Law, lasted.” a veil was hung up before the earthly sanctuary, in order to keep the people not only from entering but from seeing it, (Exodus 26:33;…

As it is in wicked communion, those who are more spiritually wicked, (for there is a kinde of spiritual wickedness) they do more unite together, those that are more fleshly wicked, do not so closely unite, as your drunkards, and prophane fellows, though they call good fellows, y…

(1 Corinthians 12:21) "The eye" (the knowing man) "cannot say to the hand" (the active man) in God's cause, "I have no need of you." All have their use by mutual gifts and graces to profit one another, as the curtains of the Tabernacle were coupled to one another by loops, (Exod…

Romans 12:18: If it be possible, as much as lies in you, live peaceably with all men. The curtains of the tabernacle were to be joined together (Exodus 26:3-4); so should the hearts of Christians be looped together in peace and unity. That I may persuade to peaceable-mindedness,…

For the inspection of the whole was committed in an especial manner to the High Priest (Numbers 4; Zechariah 3:7). Yes, the actual performance of the daily service of this part of the Sanctuary, was in the first place charged on him (Exodus 27:21). But the other Priests being de…

And this Candlestick was made all of beaten gold, of one piece, with its lamps and appurtenances without either joints or screws, which is not without its mystery. To fit it for its service pure oil olive was to be provided by the way of offering from the people (Exodus 27:20).…

The whole portion of the Levites, and a part of the portion of the Priests, was between the Temple and the City. 3. Moses his greatest Altar, the Altar of Burnt-offerings, was not half so big as Ezekiel's Altar: compare Ezekiel 43:16 with Exodus 27:1. So is Moses' Altar of Incen…

And they must not go up upon steps (quite contrary to our high altars) that their nakedness be not discovered therein: noting that when we come into the presence of God we should take heed of our spiritual nakedness, and the pride and vanity of our spirits in prayer; God would h…

5. That the Priests wash their hands and feet before their ministry (Exodus 30:9). 6. That the Priests attend the Lamps of the Sanctuary (Exodus 27:21). 7. That the Priests bless the people (Numbers 6:3).

He conflicted with the wrath of God; which he could never have done, if he had not been more than a man. We read that the Altar of wood was overlaid with brass, that so the fire on the Altar might not consume the wood, Exodus 27.1, 2. This Altar was a type of Jesus Christ.

God's covenant people are separated from the world, and sanctified by the Spirit. The priests under the law were not only to wash in the great laver, but were arrayed with glorious apparel (Exodus 28:2). This was typical, to show God's people are not only washed from gross sin,…

1. How illustrious every holy person is; he is [illegible], he is a fair glass in which some of the beams of God's holiness shines forth. We read Aaron put on garments for glory and beauty (Exodus 28:2). When we wear the embroidered garment of holiness, it is for glory and beaut…

2. A positive part, Vivification, which is the spiritual refining of the soul, which in Scripture is called a renewing of our mind (Romans 12:2), and a partaking of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4). The priests in the law not only were washed in the great laver, but adorned with…

No such thing is mentioned in all that is recorded concerning their call and consecration. For where they are expressly declared in their outward circumstances (Exodus 28, 29), there is mention made of no such thing. But their dedication consisted in three things.

This was typed out by the plate of gold, wherein was inscribed Holiness to the Lord, that was on the forehead of the High Priest. It was that he might bear the iniquity of the holy things of the people (Exodus 28:36, 37, 38). He bore it in the expiation he made of all sin; and t…

God has two heavens, and the humble heart is one of them. 2. A righteous man is devoted to holiness: the priests under the law were not only washed in the great laver, but adorned with glorious apparel (Exodus 28:2), the emblem of a righteous man who is not only washed from gros…

And then his death was not only to be a ransom, but a price, not only [in non-Latin alphabet], but [in non-Latin alphabet]: a surety to an ordinary creditor pays the debt, and frees the debtor from bonds; Christ was to bring us into grace and favor with God, and to merit Heaven…

An ephod is nothing else but a garment made partly of linen, not unlike a surplice, but more rich and costly. Those garments of Aaron, are said to be for glory, and for beauty (Exodus 28:2), because they typified and shadowed out the beauty of Christ, our true high priest, in al…

Hence it came about that when true theologians had lost the understanding of the proper use of these sacrifices and had so diminished their faith in the coming Messiah, they fell — nowhere secure, nor free from the stings of conscience and the sense of the law's curse — into dre…

7. More particularly, our Lord, by his intercession, takes away the guilt of our holy things, for when we approach to God in worship, there is a carnalness, and pollutedness in the best things we do, much irreverence, much unbelief, much want of humility, zeal, sincerity, and te…

I should wish no higher happiness out of heaven, than to be carried in the circle of Christ's arms, and to lie with the lambs, in his bosom, and be warmed with the heart-love, that comes out of his breast. [illegible] is to carry on the shoulders; and Aaron is said in the same w…

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Hence we may perceive that the Priesthood under Christ, differs much from that which was under the Law. For under it only one tribe was admitted to offer sacrifices (Exodus 28:1). The Gentiles were rejected as unclean, neither did they once enter into the Temple: so far was it t…

In this matter David attempted nothing contrary to what the law enjoined. God had bestowed the priesthood on Aaron and his sons, (Exodus 28:1.) The other Levites were set apart to inferior offices, (Numbers 3:9.)

The golden Bells on this Ephod, by their precious Matter and pleasant Sound, do well represent the good Profession that the Saints make; and the Pomegranates, the Fruit they bring forth. And as in the Hem of the Ephod, Bells and Pomegranates were constantly connected, as is once…

Now there was scarcely any thing of old that more gloriously represented God, than that of the engraving of his name on a plate of gold to be worn on the front of the mitre of the High Priest; at the sight whereof, the great conqueror of the East fell down before him. Mention of…

13. That Aaron and his Posterity have the principal place and honor in Sacred things (Leviticus 21:8). 14. That the Priests wear the Garments appointed to their special Ministry (Exodus 28:2). 15. That the Ark be carried on the shoulders of the Levites (Numbers 7:9).

What was the state and condition of the Priesthood in the Church from the foundation of the world, until the time we now treat of, by whom that Office was executed, how they came to it, and wherein it did consist, I have declared elsewhere. The foundation of an especial Priestho…

And from there was the expression of him that came to be consecrated a Priest; [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉] (2 Chronicles 13:9), He that came to fill his hand with a bullock. The rise of this expression we have marked before, on Exodus 28:41. The Lord giving directions to Moses f…

But we positively affirm that to the works of regenerate persons, to their best works some defilement cleaves, so that though the action be not sinful, yet there is some sin in the action. There is a great deal of difference between a sinful action and sin in an action: We have…

Christ deals so with our performances. All the ingredients of self that are in them on any account, he takes away, and adds Incense to what remains, and presents it to God, Exodus 28:36. This is the cause that the saints at the last day when they meet their own duties and perfor…

In sum, we conceive the words look to one, or both of these similitudes, or allusions: 1. In general, to men who had such respect to their seals or rings, that they wore them on their fingers, and carried them still about with them; now, she would be carried about on his heart,…

The allusion is doubtless from the high priest of the Jews, in his spiritual representation of the church before God. He had a breastplate which he is said to wear on his heart (Exodus 28:29), wherein the names of the children of Israel were engraved after the manner of seals or…

Self, unbelief, form, drop themselves into all that we do. We may be ashamed of our choicest performances: God has promised that the saints' good works shall follow them; truly were they to be measured by the rule as they come from us, and weighed in the balance of the sanctuary…

There meets the first donation and the last. Now to obtain this life for them he died in their stead, appeared as the high priest, being perfectly, and truly what the name was on their plate of gold: holiness to the Lord (Exodus 28:36). And so bearing their iniquity, as it is ad…

In fact, (Matthew 10:30) the hairs of their heads are numbered; God has a particular notice of their necessities: and Jesus Christ, he is his remembrancer, one that ever appears before him to represent their wants. (Hebrews 9:24) As the high priest, in the law, was to go in with…

Sin infects men's prayers, the prayers of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord (Proverbs 28:9), indeed, though offered up with incense to perfume them (Isaiah 1:13). Under the law Aaron was to bear the iniquity of the holy things (Exodus 28:38). Israel brought God many a pr…

As for that judgement of Urim spoken of in Numbers 27:21, which was by way of Oracle, the high Priest having Vrim and Thummim about him giving answers in God's name, which were of infallible truth, and made a supreme determination, that was for the resolution of doubtful and dif…

Christ must go to heaven and there hee is a Priest; now if hee were upon the earth hee could not be a Priest for us, therefore we have great advantage by CHRISTS going into heaven. O beloved, then looke on this as a great comfort, that our Lord Jesus Christ is now in heaven in h…

Furthermore, Christ's bearing of our iniquities is an obvious Hebraism, and the same as the bearing, not of the intrinsic and fundamental guilt of sin, but of the extrinsic guilt, or debt and punishment of sin. So, (Exodus 28:38) a miter shall be on Aaron's forehead, that Aaron…

Nehemiah 13:22: when he had been most faithful in his place, and had set all in good order, Yet spare me O God, according to your rich mercies: to show you, that though the good man saw no guile in his heart, he sought the reformation of all things, yet spare me for the defects…

Q. 6. Is this holiness or obedience in us perfect? Yes, (a) in respect of all the parts of it, but (b) not in respect of the degrees wherein God requires it. (a) 2 Kings 20:3; Job 1:1; Matthew 5:48; Luke 1:6; 2 Corinthians 7:1; Ephesians 4:24; Titus 2:12. (b) Isaiah 64:6; Psalm…

Q. 6. Is this holiness or obedience in us perfect? A. Yes, (a) in respect of all the parts of it, but (b) not in respect of the degrees wherein God requires it. (a) 2 Kings 20. 3. John 1. 1. Matthew 5:48. Luke 1. 6. 2 Corinthians 7:1. Ephesians 4. 24. Titus 2:12. (b) Isaiah 64.…

Sin drops poison on our holy things, it infects our prayers. The High Priest was to make atonement for sin on the altar (Exodus 29:36), to signify that our holiest services need Christ to make atonement for them. Duties of religion in themselves are good, but sin corrupts them,…

Answer: Because faith eyes Christ in every duty, and so both the person and offering are accepted. The high priest under the law laid his hand upon the head of the beast slain, which did point to the Messiah (Exodus 29:10). So faith in every duty lays its hand upon the head of C…

The Virgin Mary's obedience was not perfect; she needed Christ's blood to wash her tears. Aaron was to make atonement for the altar (Exodus 29:37), to show that the most holy offering has defilement in it, and needs atonement to be made for it. Question 1. But if man has not pow…

(3) See question the eighth and ninth. (4) Exodus 29:42, 43, 45; Deuteronomy 14:23; Psalm 133:3; Matthew 18:20; Revelation 21:3. (5) Exodus 20:5; Deuteronomy 4:23, 24; Joshua 24:19; Ezekiel 16.

Qu. 8. How many we sanctify the name of God in the use of Gospel institutions? Answ. 1. By a holy reverence of his sovereign authority appointing of them. 2. A holy regard to his special presence in them. 3. Faith in his promises annexed to them. 4. Delight in his will, wisdom,…

Hence were they called meat and drink-offerings. And they had washings also that belonged to them, as the washing of the inwards (Exodus 29:17), and of the burnt-offerings peculiarly (Ezekiel 40:38), of the hands and feet of the Priests (Exodus 30:18), and of the leper (Leviticu…

And as to the second, Expositors generally answer, that aspersion or sprinkling with blood, did commonly precede unction with the Holy Oil. And as to the garments of the Priests, which were the vessels or utensils of the Tabernacle, it was appointed that they should be sprinkled…

I will not absolutely oppose the usual interpretation of these words; namely, that at the erection of the tabernacle, and the dedication of it with all its vessels and utensils, there was a sprinkling with blood, though not expressly mentioned by Moses, for he only declares the…

And this is the last thing in particular, namely, the way or means of the removal of this evil conscience, which is by sprinkling of our hearts. The expression is taken from the sprinkling of blood upon the offering of the sacrifices (Exodus 29:16, 21; Leviticus 4:17; Chapter 14…

(2.) By the [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩] or daily sacrifice of morning and evening for the whole people. See the institution of it, Exodus 29, verses 38, 39, 40, 41, 42. For although that sacrifice had in it the nature of an expiatory oblation, because it was by blood; yet the prin…

Reas. 3. If the Communion Table were an altar, then it should be greater and better than the sacramental bread and wine, or the Lord's Supper itself, and a means to consecrate them. For the altar sanctifies all the gifts and sacrifices that are offered upon it, and is greater th…

God disallows covenants of man's making (and so our Church-Covenant) in those words, But not by your Covenant (Ezekiel 16:61). God does not reprove them there for making Covenant, for then he were contrary to himself, who elsewhere called them to do it (Exodus 29; Deuteronomy 29…

For teleioun means to consecrate and to initiate; hence among the ancients, baptism also is called teleiosis (consecration). The Septuagint employs the word for consecration or dedication (Exodus 29, "to fill the hands of them," verses 33 and 35); nor does the term appear to be…

The reason of the diversity is, because the same word in the original, which signifies the second person masculine, you, meaning the Father; signifies the third person feminine: his soul shall make itself; but on the matter, whether we apply it to the Father, or to Christ, both…

2. That there be some appointed to offer the sacrifice; that there be some set apart for that very thing. 3. That there be a killing, or destroying, of the thing that is offered in a sacrifice; which especially in the sin-offering was necessary; to wit, that it should be killed,…

In the old Testament, when a man had sinned, he brought a sheepe or an oxe to the doore of the Tabernacle, and when the Priest cut the throat of it, the partie laid his hand upon the head of it. Exod 29:10. And hereby he signified, that the beast had done no hurt, and that he as…

Answer. Even because he sustained our person and cause: for there was nothing at all that could satisfy God's justice, but the death of his only begotten Son. The word Asham, signifies sin, and oblation for sin; and so oftentimes it is found in the latter signification in the Sc…

The Prophet then expresses three things here distinctly. For first when he says, that the sacrifices went up, he alludes to the ceremony which in old time they used in the sacrifices, for they lifted up their offerings (Exodus 29:24; Leviticus 8:29), to signify, that they were t…

It would have been more correct to say that the noun נזר signifies a crown than a flower. "Thou shalt put the holy crown," את נזר הקדש, (Exodus 29:6.) "Thou hast profaned his crown," נזרו, (Psalm 89:39.)

When he says, that it was not lawful to eat that bread but for the priests alone, we must understand him to refer to the ordinary law: they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them; but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because…