Exodus 7

Abraham prayed for Abimelech, Genesis 20:17-18, and, God healed him and his family of barrenness. At Moses' prayer, God's judgments were taken from Egypt: Exodus 7:12, 13, 30, and his wrath appeased toward his people, Exodus 32:11, 14. And some think that Stephen's prayer at his…

And the scriptures elsewhere, use the like phrases of God. (Exodus 7:3) God is said to harden Pharaoh's heart. (2 Samuel 24:1) The Lord moved David to number the people.

Thirdly, similitude is a great hindrance. Exodus 7:22, Pharaoh's heart was hardened because the Magicians did the same miracles that Moses and Aaron did; so similitude hinders men from embracing the ways of Christ, and God. Men seeing Papists' austerity like our mortification, t…

And the Scriptures elsewhere, use the like phrases of God. (Exodus 7:3) God is said to harden Pharaoh's heart. (2 Samuel 24:1) The Lord moved David to number the people.

Again, the devil can delude the outward senses, as the hearing, and the sight. Thus Jannes and Jambres turned their rods into serpents, before Pharaoh, and brought frogs, by deceiving the eye, and not in truth (Exodus 7 and 8). Thus the witch of Endor made a counterfeit of Samue…

Witchcraft: The word [illegible] properly signifies poisoning: but here it is fitly translated witchcraft: because all poisoning is comprehended under murder which follows. And the Magicians of Egypt (Exodus 7) are called [illegible] in the translation of the Seventy: as also th…

The former is expressed (Exodus 28:1): And take you to you Aaron your Brother and his Sons, that they may minister to me in the Priests Office. Aaron was the elder brother of Moses, born three years before him (Exodus 7:7), and was now eighty four or eighty five years of age, wh…

The word "destroy" signifies to swallow up or to devour: you have it (Genesis 41:4), where it is said, that the seven lean ears and seven lean kine did devour or eat up the seven full ears and the seven fat kine. And (Exodus 7:12) the text says, that Moses his rod did swallow up…

For the full discovery of the first, I shall consider it in that eminent instance, wherein of old he did grant his presence to his people. The bottom of that stupendous undertaking of the Israelites in leaving Egypt, and journeying through the wilderness into Canaan, lay in the…

- 1. Hardness and blindness. - 2. Unbelief. - 3. Deadness. - 4. Security. - 5. Irreligious profaneness and Atheism. - 6. Inconstancy. - 7. Deceitfulness. - 8. Pride. - 9. Worldly-mindedness. - 10. Fiery zeal. - 11. Uncleanness. - 12. Malice and hatred. - 13. Worldly sorrow. - 14…

God so withdraws his influence that in the same act, the man is unexcusably willing to want it. He is deservedly cold, who joyfully and willingly yields to the pulling away of his coat; here that is true, an injury is not done to a man who receives it as a favor: Volenti non fit…

Run down religion? In the name of my great master, I defy all the powers of hell and earth to run it down: they may sooner run down the flowing tide, or the sun when he goes forth in his strength, than run down the least of the dictates of eternal truth, not one jot or tittle of…

(6) And vain stoutness to dare God in his own quarters and fight him (Exodus 14:8, 23; Exodus 23:8, 13; Isaiah 36:10-11, 36-37), if it were in his own seas as Pharaoh and the Egyptians would do. 13. There is a wicked hardening of the heart, when men make the Lord his word and mi…

14. And upon this account there is required a deadening of our hearts to shipping and trading with diverse mighty nations, as we see in the case of Tyre (Ezekiel 27), of Babylon (Revelation 18:11-13; Jeremiah 51). So are we to be mortified to fair houses (Isaiah 5:8), stately ci…

But this were most horrible blasphemy, to match the devil with the Son of God, and his finite power with the power of the Godhead, by which miracles are worked. And the truth is, Satan can work no true miracles; neither does the text import that the magicians did that which they…

In the Old Testament we read of Balaam (Numbers 23), who though he be called a Prophet, because he was so reputed of men, yet indeed he was a notorious Witch, both by profession and practice, and would have shown his cunning in that kind upon the Israelites, if God had not [reco…

For the Greeks do call young men by the name of [in non-Latin alphabet], and the Latins by the name of [pueri], boys, or children. The eighth allegation: Exodus 7 — it is said (v. 19) that all the waters in Egypt were turned into blood, by Moses and Aaron; and yet v. 22 it is sa…

By what reasons are they confuted? (1) Because, the Scripture says, God blinds their eyes, and hardens their hearts, even actively, and judicially (John 12:40; Exodus 7:3; Deuteronomy 2:30; Romans 9:18). (2.) Because, God is said to punish one sin, with another (Romans 1:24, 26,…