Exodus 12

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.