Exodus 15

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.

Perfect pleasure is only at God's right hand (Psalm 16:11); yet we may begin here to tune our instrument before we play the sweet lesson of contentment exactly in heaven. I should be glad if this little piece might be like Moses his casting the tree into the waters (Exodus 15:25…

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…