Exodus 16

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-…