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…

But religion and salvation, and consequently church-membership, according to the domestic way of administration then used, did for a considerable time continue among the children of Abraham by Keturah, as the story of Job intimates; he and his friends being justly conceived to h…

In the third signification we find the word (Isaiah 3), where the Lord says, that he would take away from Israel the prudent and the ancient, vezaken; that is, the worthies among them, and such as were respected for wisdom. The same word, (and peradventure in the same sense) is…

Most of the remarkable deliverances and restorations of the Church of God, that we have account of in the Scripture, were in answer to prayer. So was the redemption of the Church of God from the Egyptian bondage (Exodus 2:23 and 3:7). The great restoration of the Church in the l…

And he is all the more to be detested for this, that this trifler set out to defile the sacred oracles of God. Targum Onkelos has the Hebrew word for "Hebrew"; and at Exodus 2:6, it renders the Hebrew word for "Hebrews" as "Jews"; and at Deuteronomy 15:12, the phrase "your broth…

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…

Some knowledge of the true God, was retained as it should seem until now among some of them, being received by tradition from their fathers. Moses' father in law, was a priest of this country (Exodus 2:15, 16), not altogether unacquainted with Jehovah (Exodus 18), and was himsel…

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…

And doubtless such a one, and no other, was intended by Abraham's Servant for a Wife to Isaac when he prayed, that She [in non-Latin alphabet] which came forth to the water, might answer his token that he had fixed on. Again, it is used (Exodus 2:8) where Moses' Sister, who call…

We call it by the same name with the great vessel wherein Noah, and the seed of all living creatures were preserved. But their names are far distant in the original both in sound and signification, this was [⟨in non-Latin alphabet⟩], Aaron, a chest, it may be from [⟨in non-Latin…

If Christ as our high Priest have received the elect from the Father, "Yours they were, and you gave them to me"; and as Redeemer entrusted to bring them in, he must send the Gospel to them as Mediator, and intercede, that Apostles, Evangelists, Pastors, Teachers may be gifted w…

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…

Secondly, we are accountable for our Houses, if they do not serve God. As the daughter of Pharaoh said to the mother of Moses, in Exodus 2:9: Take this child and nurse it for me, and I will give you your wages. Thus does the Lord say to us: Take these children, take these young…

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…

There lies in you some leaven of hypocrisy, that must needs be purged out, some root of bitterness, that must needs be weeded up, some thorns of covetousness, pride, vainglory, that must needs be cut down. Lo, my brother, you are come out of Egypt (Exodus 2), you have gone a gre…

(1 Timothy 6:16) Whom no man has seen, nor can see. When Moses and the Elders of Israel are said to have seen God, and Jacob to have seen him face to face (Exodus 2:9; Genesis 32:30), it is meant of an Angel covered with divine glory and majesty, as we shall see if we compare th…

Jacob the Patriarch fled from the presence of his brother Esau into Haran, to Laban (Genesis 27), and again, from there to the land of his fathers (Genesis 31). Moses, after he had slain the Egyptian, fled out of Egypt into Midian, where he lived 40 years (Exodus 2). And this wa…