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.

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 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…

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…