took for him an ark of bulruſhes e, and daubed it with lime and with pitch, and put the child therein, and ſhe laid ir in the flags f by the rivers brink.
d To wit, with ſafety to her ſelf, becauſe they now grew more
P 5 Nor out of zeal to puniſh a Murderer, but to ſecure himſelf rom ſe dangerous a” perſon, probably ſuppoſing that this was the
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; man foretold to be the Scourge of Egypr, and the Deliverer of +
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E Deut: 33: 16:
* As 7: 33:
* Mat:22: 32. Als 7; 32;
| oy Chap. . 2: 23,
* to ſee, God called unto him * out pf the midſt of the
- of God's Majeſty, and Holineſs: See Ger: 16: 13: and 17: 3: 1 Kings
hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of
CHAP. I.
+ keeping Tethro's fock, cometh t6 mount Horeb, r. There God appears _ him is tte | 2. Moles beholds it, 3. God calls to him 9 of the burning buſh, 4. Cautions him what to do, 5, G. God ſeet their afflifions, 75. Promiſes them a happy deliverance, 8. Sends y 78 Pharaoh, 10. He deſires to be excuſed becauſe wnworthy, 1T. our encourages him, 12. And diretts him what t0 ſay to the chi laren of 69 , 13s 14. Makes his name known.to Moſes, 15. Commands him to gather the elders of Iſrael, 16. And what he was to ſay tothem, 17. Likew! ſe zo Pharaoh, 18. Pharaoh's obſtimacy, 19. God threatens the Egyptians, 20. Aid tells Moſes with what plenty the Iſraelites ſhould depart, 21, 22. |
OW Moſes kept the flock of Jethro @ his father- in-law, the prieft of Midian : and heled the flock to the back-ſide of the defart b, and came to the moun-
tain of God c, even to Horeb 4. | |
a Either the ſame with Revel, or his Son, who upon his Father's death, ſucceeded into his office. See Exod. 2. 18. 6 To its inner- moſt parts, which were behind Jerhro's Habitation, and rhe former Paſtures, whither he went for freſh Paſtures. «c So called, either as art high or eminent Mountain; or, from the Viſion of God here following. See A4#s 7: 30: 'or by anticipation, from God's glorious appearance there, and giving the Law from thence, Exod: 18: 5: and 19.'3. See alſo r Kings 19: 8. d Called alſo Sinai, Exod: rg: 1: Ats 7: 40: Or Horeb was the name of the whole tratt or row of Moun- rains, and Sinai the name of that particular Mountain where this Viſion hapned, and the Law was delivered. Or Horeb and Sinai were two feveral tops of the ſame Mountain.
'2 And the Angel of the LORD e appeared unto him in a-* flame of fre f out of che midſt of a buſh, and he looked, and behold, the buſh burned with fire,
and the buſh was not conſumed g. e Not a created Angel, but the Angel of the Covenant, Chriſt Jeſus, who then and ever was God, and was to be Man, and to be
EXODUS
that land, unto a good land and a large 9, unto a land flowing with milk and honey 7, unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites,
ſites s.
? This word notes God's manifeſtation ofhimſelf and his favour, and giving help from Heaven. See Gen? 18: 21+ 9 SO it was not only comparatively to Goſhen, where they now dwelt, and to the number of the Iſraelites, at that time ; but abſolutely, if you take the Land of Promiſe according to its true and firſt & ancient Bounds of it, as you have them deſcribed, Gen: 15: 18. Det: 1* 7: and 11: 24: and not according to thoſe narrow limits to which they were afterwards confined for their Unbelief, Sloth, Cowardice, and Impiety. » (45. e. ) Abounding with the choiceſt Fruits, both for neceſſity and for delight. The excellency, and fingular fruitfulneſs of this Land, howſoever denied or diſputed by ſome ill-minded Perſons, is ſutficiently evident, 1. From expreſs Teſtimony not only of Moſes, Deut: 8: 7, 8, 9: but alſo of the Spies who were ſent to view 1t, and, though prejudiced againſt it, yet acknowledged it, Numb: 13: 27: and ofthe Holy Prophets that lived long in it, as David, Pſalm 106: 24: Joel, Chap: 2: 3: and Ezekiel, who calls it the glory of all Land®, Exek: 20: 15, WhiChif it had not been true, 1t 15 ridiculous to think that they durſt have ſaid and writ ſo, when the people with whom they conteſted, and thouſands of other Per- ſons there and then living, were able to confute them. After them Joſephus, and St. Hierom, and others ſince, who lived long in that Land, have highly commended it. And whereas $Srrabo tpeaks of the barrenneſs of the Soil about Jeruſalem, that is true, but by him- ſelf it 15 limited to the compaſs of 6o Furlongs from Jers/alem. And if at this day the Land be no'y grown barren in a. great meaſure, it is not ſtrange, conſidering both the great negle& and ſloth of the People as to the improvement of it, and the great wick= edneſs of its Inhabitants, for which God hath threatned ro turn z fruitful Land into barrenneſs, Pſal. 107: 34. 5 Theſe People are diverſly nuinbred, there are ten ſorts reckoned, Gen: 15: 19, 20, 21. and ſeven, Dent: 7: 1: and here but ſix, becauſe ſome of them werecither deſtroyed or driven out of their Land by others ; or did by choice and dcſign remove to ſome other place, as. many in thoſe times did,
ſent into the World in our Fleſh as a Meflenger from God. And theſe remporary Apparitions of his were Preſages or Fore-runners | of his more ſolemn Miſſion and coming, and therefore he 1s fitly | called an Angel. Thar this Argzl wasno Creature, plainly appears | by the whole Context. and ſpecially by his ſaying, 1 am the Lord, &c. The Angels never ſpeak that Language in Scripture, ſent from God, and Iam thy fellow-ſervant, &c. And it is a vain prerence to ſay, That the Angel as God's Ambaſſadour ſpeaks in God's name and perſon ; For what Ambaſſadour of any King in the World did ever ſpeak thus, 1 am the King, &c ? Miniſters are God's Ambaſſadours ; but if any of them ſhould ſay, 7 am the Lord, they
would he guilty of Blaſphemy, and ſo would any created Angel be !
but 7 aw |
though it be not mentioned in Scripture ; or by Cohabitation and Marriage with ſome ofthe other People, did make a Coalition, and . were incorporated with them, and ſ their Name was ſwallowed up
| in the other; or becauſe the Names of ſome of theſe People, as
particularly the Canaanites, and the Amorites, were uſed ſometimes | more ſtrictly, and ſometimes more largely, ſo as to comprehend under them the other People, as the Girgaſhites, &c. whence it comeg
{ 13: 7: and of the Amorites in ſome places of Scripture, as hath been ſhewed.
9 Now therefore behold the cry * of the children