Exodus 19

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…