Exodus 10

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…