Exodus 2

If the devil bids a man lie or cheat, he does not refuse; and which is worst, men are enslaved, and they willingly obey this tyrant; other slaves are forced against their will. Israel sighed by reason of their bondage (Exodus 2:23). But sinners are willing to be slaves, they wil…

Question. What is this [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], this filiation or Adoption? Answer. Adoption is the taking a stranger into the relation of a son and heir: So Moses was the adopted son of King Pharaoh's daughter (Exodus 2:10). And Esther was the adopted child of her cousin Mo…

Thus all sin's commands are unlawful, we cannot obey sin's law but by breaking God's law. 4. Other slaves are forced against their will: Israel groaned under slavery (Exodus 2:23). But sinners are content to be under the command of sin, they are willing to be slaves, they love t…

Thirdly, if it be for the safety of his life in a good cause. So Moses, Exodus 2:14-15, fled into the land of Midian, and there stayed, when Pharaoh sought his life: And Christ himself fled with his Father and Mother into Egypt, from the fury of Herod, Matthew 1. The like may be…

The Text says of him first of all, That when he was come to age, he refused to be called the son of Pharaohs daughter. How Moses became her son, we may read at large, Exodus 2: where it is said, that she having found Moses in the basket, preserved him alive, and brought him up a…

From there arises that fortitude; though the world rejects us as the scum of the world: for God holds us precious in his sight, in regard our cause is his own. Let us then with Moses, esteem the rebuke of Christ above all the riches of Egypt (Exodus 2:11; Hebrews 11:26). Let us…

Then is God wont to repent himself for his professing People, when their Strength is gone, and there is none shut up or left, and when they are brought to see that their false Gods cannot help them, and that the Rock in whom they trusted is vain; Deuteronomy 32:36, 37. Before Go…

As for your cavil at the oath ex officio, since you will needs draw it in by head and shoulders; however little it concerns us, I return you this answer — That, if any of our profession have in the pressing of it exceeded the lawful bounds, I excuse him not, I defend him not; le…

Meekness suffers the word of admonition, and takes it patiently and thankfully, not only from the hand of God that sends it, but from the hand of our friend that brings it. We must not be like the reprobate Sodomites (Genesis 19:9), or that pert Hebrew (Exodus 2:14), that flew i…

Indeed the mother herself was desirous to do it, and therefore appointed her daughter to watch who should take it up. These two circumstances imply that it pertains to a mother to nurse her children (Exodus 2:7, etc.). 5. The Apostle lays this down as a note of a good woman, who…

If a good servant does by occasion slip, and commit a fault, his master ought in wisdom either to take no notice of it: or with some mild admonition pass it over: and not deal with him as with a lewd, graceless servant. 4. When such servants (their covenanted time being expired)…

Something like a pity arising in his heart upon the sight of it; which the Scripture frequently ascribes to God, and we can best understand, as we consider the divine perfections shining forth in the human nature of Christ. (Exodus 2:24) He heard their groaning; and (Isaiah 63:4…

Others hide their sins, like one who shuts up his shop windows but follows his trade within doors. Many deal with their sins as Moses's mother dealt with him — she hid him in the ark of bulrushes as if she had left him; but her eye was still upon him, and in the end she became h…

O how happy were England if it had more peacemakers! Abraham was a peacemaker (Genesis 13:8); Moses was a peacemaker (Exodus 2:13). And that ever-to-be-honored Emperor Constantine, when he called the bishops together at the first Council of Nicaea to end church controversies, an…

Weeping for sin is a sign of the new birth; as soon as the child is born, it weeps. Exodus 2:6: And behold, the baby wept. To weep sincerely for sin is a good sign we are born of God.

The same with that of Abraham (Deuteronomy 8:18): that he may establish his Covenant, which he swore to your fathers, as it is this day. When he is to deliver them out of Egypt (Exodus 2:24): and God heard their groaning, and remembered his Covenant with Abraham and Isaac and Ja…

Now the people and Levites, and house of David were never so multiplied in the Jews, after the deliverance from Babylon, and therefore must be extended to the New Testament. And if God establish David's seed forever (Psalm 89:4) and the seed of his people shall possess the gates…

4. Death will dry up a believer's tears, Revelation 7. 17. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; weeping is nothing but a cloud of sorrow gathered in the heart, dropping into water. A Christian often has none to keep him company, but his own griefs and sorrows; he s…