Exodus 9

This wrath is very dismal; it is this wrath of God that embitters afflictions in this life: when sickness comes attended with God's wrath, it puts conscience into an agony. The mingling the fire with the hail made it so terrible (Exodus 9:24); so mingling God's wrath with afflic…

Hypocrites pray more against temporal evils than spiritual. Pharaoh prayed more to have the plague of hail and thunder removed, than his hard heart should be removed (Exodus 9:28). The Israelites prayed, Tolle Serpentes, Take away the serpents from us more than to have their sin…

When the matter bears a clear exception, and other Scriptures expound it, then surely Christ's dying for all must be expounded as his giving himself a ransom for many (Matthew 20:28, compared with 1 Timothy 2:6). So the law says all do that which the most part do; men's will doe…

In that the false Apostles are saide to be ielous, or zealous, we see how nature can counterfeit [〈◊〉] grace of God: and that which the child of God does by [〈◊〉] that the naturall man can doe by nature. Thus Pharao fa[〈…〉] repentance, Exod 9:27. and Ahab, that sold himselfe to…

It is evident that there are Counterfeits of all Kinds of gracious Affections; as of Love to God, and Love to the Brethren, as has been just now observed: So of godly Sorrow for Sin, as in Pharaoh, Saul, and Ahab, and the Children of Israel in the Wilderness; Exodus 9:27, 1 Samu…

But from time to time he broke his promises, when he saw there was respite. When God filled Egypt with thunder and lightning, and the fire ran along the ground, then Pharaoh is brought to confess his sin with seeming humility, and to have a great resolution to let the people go,…

The grammarians express it, sometimes more generally, a filthy scab; sometimes more particularly, an ulcer, a boil, sometimes a leprosy, it is indeed any foul disease breaking out upon the body. The same word is used (Exodus 9:10), where it is said, that God smote the Egyptians…

As he did it upon the old Roman world (Revelation 6:16), and this also he does two ways. 1. By calling out here and there an eminent opposer, and making him an example to all the world, so he dealt with Pharaoh, for this cause have I raised you up (Exodus 9:16). So he does to th…

Faithfulness is to us, and for our good. Pharaoh could own justice (Exodus 9:27): The Lord is righteous, but I and my people are wicked. But it's a higher thing to own faithfulness; that supposes faith, as the other does conviction.

What promises and resolves did Pharaoh make against that sin of detaining God's people? Says he, I will let the people go, that they may do sacrifice to the Lord; and again, I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer (Exodus 9:28). And yet Saul and Pharaoh both perished in…

The soul comes easily to give way to the authority of the truth, that would take any sinful lust away. To the like purpose is that of Job (Job 23:16) when the armies of God's indignation had encamped against him, and the terrors of the Lord had drunk up his spirit; says he, God…

Had God brought Israel out of Egypt in the time of those Kings which knew Joseph, most likely they might have had a friendly departure and an easie deliverance, but God reserves this for the reigne of that proud Pharaoh, who shall cruelly oppress them, and venture his Kingdom, b…

'Tis vain to confess, we have done those things which we ought not to have done, and continue still in doing so. Pharaoh confessed he had sinned, (Exodus 9:27). But when the thunder ceased, he fell to his sin again, verse 33.

Now mark the issue of all: when Pharaoh saw that he had rest given him, he hardened his heart and listened not to them, as the Lord had said. This is the ordinary and common repentance that most men practice in the world (Exodus 8:8; Exodus 9:27; Exodus 10:16; Exodus 8:15). Desp…

God's will stands in the people's way, bidding them return, they answer: There is no hope but we will walk after our own devices. Hell, vengeance, omnipotency, crossed Pharaoh's will, but it would neither bow nor break (Exodus 9:27). But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart, that h…

The consideration hereof, how would it humble a man's soul in the sight of God? There is no means in the world so effectual to break the heart of a man kindly, as this is; it was the last means God used with Pharaoh (Exodus 9:16-17). I have raised you up, says God, to show my po…