Exodus 3

In the Moral Law God himself gives a charge, God spoke all these words; therefore with what veneration should we attend? Moses was to put off his shoes from his feet (in token of reverence,) when God was about to speak to him (Exodus 3:5-6). 3. If God spoke all these words of th…

He is Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last (Revelation 1:8). No creature can write itself Alpha, that is only a flower of the crown of heaven (Exodus 3:14): I am that I am; namely, he who exists from and to eternity. Use 1. Here is thunder and lightning to the wicked; God is…

Three times I was beaten with rods; as if you should see a scullion whip the king's son. God beholds it (Exodus 3:7). I know their sorrows.

If a man were on the top of a high tower or theatre, he might from there see all the people below: God is in Heaven as in a tower or theatre, and he sees all the transactions of men. The wicked make wounds in the backs of the righteous, and then pour in vinegar; God writes down…

14. Vlt. There is kindness in affliction, in that it is a means to make us happy (Job 5:17): Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. This seems strange to flesh and blood that affliction should make one happy; when Moses saw the bush burning and not consumed, I will (says he…

In these words is laid down a second reason, whereby is proved, that these Patriarchs died in the faith, seeking their country in heaven. The reason is drawn from the testimony of God himself, recorded by Moses in the book of Exodus, where God saith, He is the God of their Fathe…

Objection 2. Exodus 3:5: God said to Moses, Stand far off and put off your shoes, for the place is holy. Now if holy places must be reverenced, then much more holy images, as the cross of Christ and such like.

Position 5. Free grace is the loveliest piece in heaven or earth; it makes us partakers of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4). And though the creature graced of God keeps an infinite distance from God, and is not "Goded" nor "Christed," as some do blasphemously say, yet it is consi…

He now confirms the former sentence, and shows that the cause of this famine and barrenness shall be, in regard that thorns and briars shall grow upon the land; that is to say, the fields shall be laid fallow and barren, whereas before they were fat and fruitful. Now this must n…

Answer: I answer, there are two sorts of signs, one goes before, and leads us by the hand as it were to the thing promised, the other comes after and confirms it, that it may stick fast in our memories, never to be erased. As for example, when the Lord brought Israel out of Egyp…

First, she thinks she stands by her own power: secondly, she makes herself believe, that the rest of the world are not worthy to be compared with her: thirdly, she promises herself a rest unchangeable. For the first, none can say truly I am, but God only, to whom it belongs prop…

For there is here a close comparison between their deliverance out of Egypt, and this out of Babylon. For they fled by night out of Egypt, feigning as if they had only meant to have gone three days' journey to offer sacrifice to God (Exodus 3:5 and 8:27). Afterward, they went fo…

He calls them mercies of David, because this covenant which was now so solemnly confirmed, was made in David's hand. True it is that the Lord made the covenant first with Abraham (Genesis 15:5 and 17:7), and afterwards confirmed it by Moses (Exodus 3:15), and lastly he establish…

Besides, he did not aim at collecting all the passages of Scripture, as we see that the apostles do not always make use of the same proofs on the same subject. And yet we must not imagine that there were no good reasons why Christ seized on this passage (Exodus 3:6) in preferenc…

Hence they are apt to think the lowest room belongs to them: and their inward disposition naturally leads them to obey that precept of our Savior, Luke 14:10. It is not natural to them to take it upon them to do the part of teachers; but on the contrary, they are disposed to thi…

If we judge by that rule, we must conclude, the more apt and powerful the means are, the more successful and prosperous they must needs be; and where they are inept, weak, and contemptible, nothing can be expected from them: thus reason layes it according to the rules of nature;…

And for this end and purpose it is, that the Holy Ghost has affixed those notes of attention to the narratives of the works of Providence in Scripture: all which do invite and call men to a due and deep observation of them. So in that great and celebrated work of Providence, in…

(Exodus 3:2-3) And he looked, and behold the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed; and Moses said, I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. IT is a common saying, and common sayings are generally founded on matter of fact, that i…

It is a proverbial speech among us, What the eye sees not, the heart grieves not. And when the Lord would show how he was moved with the sufferings and knew the sorrows of his people in Egypt, he doubles it upon this sense, I have seen, I have seen, or I have surely seen the aff…

I have cryed unto you Jehovah. God gave out that name to his people to confirm their faith in the stability of his promises; Exodus 3. He who is BEING himself, will assuredly give being and subsistance to his promises. being to deal with God, about the promises of grace, he make…

Now we may see what reason there was for the words of the text, "The moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but my righteousness shall endure forever and ever, and my salvation from generation to generation." Now we may see abundant reason…

This redemption was by Jesus Christ, as is evident from this, that it was wrought by him that appeared to Moses in the bush; for that was the person that sent Moses to redeem that people. But that was Christ, as is evident, because he is called the angel of the Lord, Exodus 3:2-…

But Christ's holy religion, though for some ages it was utterly destitute of all secular supports and advantages, and was assaulted on all hands by the most vigorous attacks of its daring and most implacable enemies, yet it has strangely weathered its point, and is in being, and…

This his infinite Spirit being everywhere — yet it is said here by it he went and preached, signifying the remarkable clearness of his administration that way. As when he appears eminently in any work of his own, or taking notice of our works, God is said to come down — so to th…

We have most experiences of God, when we are alone with him, and sequestered from all distractions of company and business, solacing ourselves with God. (Exodus 3:1) Moses drove the sheep to the backside of the wilderness, and came to the mount of God: he goes aside from the oth…

Therefore certainly they that know any thing of God, will be pressing to know more of his nature and will; one degree draws on another. Moses desires God; Tell me your name (Exodus 3:13-14). Then show me your glory (Exodus 33:18).

1. By the name of his essence. When Moses was very inquisitive to know his name (and God can best tell his own name), let us see what answer was made him (Exodus 3:12-13). When they shall say to me, What is his name, and God said, I Am, that I Am.

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 Jacob. So the Lord expounds it in his appearing to Moses (Exodus 3:6; Jeremiah 31:32): Not according to the Covenant which I made with thei…

It must be a narrow blessing of covenanted Egypt, Assyria, Israel, if it be a blessing of these come to age, 2. professing the faith, 3. and baptized. How can the Lord say, blessed be Egypt, and though the whole seed be visibly in covenant, old and young, yet it follows not that…

Third, the Covenant of Works has more of hire, more of man, of nature, of earning and working, and more of man's Covenant, where he binds for himself, and the other party for himself, without the mutual help of any of the confederate parties. Fourth, the Covenant of Grace is, th…

Isaiah 57:1-2: "When the righteous man is taken away, he shall enter into peace." The Lord is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, when their bodies are rotten (Exodus 3:6; Matthew 22:32). (5.) This comes too near the opinion of those who make faith a cause of satisfaction for…

For nature common to all is over-gilded with free grace. And the natural life and being, and the material heavens we shall enjoy, are blessed in another manner to the glorified, than these they now enjoy (1 Corinthians 15:40-43, etc.; 2 Peter 3:13; Revelation 21:1; Isaiah 65:17)…

And Crellius and he say, the cause why the confirming of the Covenant is ascribed to the death of Christ, is because as by a slain beast and divided into two parts, covenants of old were established, so by the death of Christ the covenant of grace was solemnly confirmed and seal…

Here must the whole church fall down and worship the Author of this wonderful contrivance, and captivating their understandings unto the obedience of faith, humbly adore what they cannot comprehend. This was obscurely represented unto the church of old (Exodus 3:2-6): "And the A…

God alone has all being in him. Hence he gives himself that name, "I AM" (Exodus 3:14). He was eternally all; when all things else that ever were, or now are, or shall be, were nothing.

From whom as all things take their beginning, so is it fitting that they have also their end appointed and directed to him. There is no man (I say) but he ought to be seized to embrace the lawmaker, to the keeping of whose commandments, he is taught that he is peculiarly chosen:…

But it may be objected, if there be any material fire in hell, it will consume the bodies there? I answer, it shall burn without consuming, as Moses' bush did, Exodus 3:2. The power of God silenceth all disputes.