o When thou madeft that admirable trial of his Faith and Obedi- ence, in requiring him to offer up his only Son aac, rhou didft find our, and diſcover his faithfulneſs, which was well known to thee before, and alſo was wrought in him by thy Grace. _
*Exod 2: g * Anddidit ſce the attliction of our Fachers in E-
25: 83:7; oypt,and heardeſt their cry by the red fea :
*Exod 14: 19 And * ſhewedlt figns and wonders upon Pharaoh,
10: and on all his ſervants, and on all the people ofhis land:
p ys, for thou kneweſt that they dealt proudly againſt them
WE hop p: fo didft thou get thee a name, as it is this day.
* Exo:14. I * And thou didſt divide the ſea before them, fo
21, 22; that they went through the midft of the ſea on the dry land, and their perſecutors thou threweſt into the deeps,
*Bxo: 1c. 45 2 fone intothe * mighty waters 9,
IL.» Treating thy People with great ſcorn and contempt, like Slaves and beaſts. 9 7. e. The deep waters, fuchas thele were, into which when a ftoneis thrown, there is no hopes of ſeeing it again.
12 Moreover, thou * leddett chem in the day by a cloudy pillar, and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them liglit in the way wherein they ſhould go.
A 13 * Thou cameſt down alſo upon mount Sinai,and
Exod:19: {; k {t . ] eh > H b l ” 20.8&20. 7: PAaKelt with them irom Heaven, an gaveſt them righc tHeb-law; Judgments, and F true laws 7 ; good 5s ſtatutes and ef cruthY commandments ;
7 Not ſuch Laws as ſome of the heathen Laws were, which taught them falihood, ſuperſtition, idolatry, and other errors, but ſuch as diſcover the truth, and the true mind and will of God, and the true and only way to life. s Both in themſelves, and to us alſo, bzing uſeful ro teach, and comfort, and fave us» I76
14 And- madeſt known unto them thy holy ſabbath t, and commandeſt them precepts, itatutes, and laws,
by the hand of Mofes thy ſervant :
Jr, ſeaf-
*Gen.2.1.
* Ex0?13: 21;
M23 24 Chap. 1% t That holy and bleſſed Sabbath-day which thou d'dſe 87-{s and
\anfiifie to Adam in Paradiſe, Gen. 2. 3. commanding him, and in
him, all his Poſterity to obſerve it, which yer almoſt all People
and Nations have quite forgotten, yea ſo far, as to mock at them,
Lam, 1. thou dzdſr graciouſly reveal unto thy peop'e, reviving
chat ancient Law by another particular Law abour 1t given to us in
the wilderneſs. *p
15 And * gaveſt them bread from heaven for their 306.
| I4, 15, hunger, and * broughteſt forth water for them out of + wg
the rock, for their thirſt, and promiſedſt them that they 6. Numb. ſhonld * go in to poſſeſs the land, | which thou had(t #139 Gc. {worn to give them. "+3" eb,
16 But « they and our fathers dealt proudly x, and which thy hardned their neck, aad hearkned not to thy com- had# 1 mandments. up thine # Notwithſtanding all theſe ſingular and wonderful Mercies : _— which he hitherto recounted to aggravate their Sins, which he now $*** Flew, comes to confeſs, and to lead them to a fincere and !ngenuous grief and repentance for their Sins, not only for the miſchicft which rhey brought upon themſelves, bur for the injury and indignity which they offered to. God. x7. e Sinned preſumptuouſly, and with conrempr of God, as ſcorning to ſubmit their wills to Gods.
17 And refuſed to obey y, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didft among them : but hardned
their necks, and in their rebellion | appointed z * a Ai cb, captain to return to their bondage : but thou art Fa God , thotg
ready to pardon, * gracious and merciful, flow to an- * Numb, per, and of great kindneſs, and forſookeſt them not. 74: 4
7 Perſiſted in their diſobedience after many Admonitions, and In- T eb s Vvitations to repentance. & 2. e. Deligned, purpoſed, and reſolved Goa of pare to do {o, Numb. 14+ 4, and therefore they are ſaid to do ſoas Abra- #9 ham 1s ſaid to have offered up 1/aac, Heb. 11. 17« becauſe he inten- * Exo,34. ded, and attempted to do ir. 6.
18 Yea, * when they had made them a molten calf. Rn. and ſaid, This is thy God that brought thee up out of *'Ex01 Egypt, and had wrought great provocations,
19 Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forfookeſt them not in the wilderneſs a: the pillar of the cloud depar- ted not from them by day to lead them in the way ; * Exod. neither the * pillar of fire by night to ſhew them light, 13. 22. and the way wherein they ſhould go. Numb,
a Where if thou hadſt left them without thy condu& and com- 14;.'+ forr, they had been utterly loſt and undone. 7 Cor. 0
20 Thou gavelt allo thy * good ſpirit þ to inſtru 4 Numb them, and, with-heldeſt not thy * menna . from their x11. 1, mouth, and gaveſt them * water for their thirſt. * Exo.16
6 Which thou didfſt graciouſly and plentifully impart unto Me- 4'Jolh. s, ſes, and then unto the ſeventy Elders, Numb. 11: 17, 25, 26. to the 2? end that they might be able to dire& and govern thy people wiſc- * Exo,r! ly, and in thy fear. "
21 Yea, * forty years didſt thou ſuſtain them inthe
wilderneſs, fo that they lacked nothing, their * clothes — wg waxed not old, and their feet ſwelled not c. *Deuts.
c_ Ot which, ſee the Notes on Dent. 8. 4- | 22 Moreover thou gaveſt them kingdoms, and na- tions, and didft divide them into corners d : fo they polletied the land of Sihon * and the land of the king *Num.:. of Heijhbon, and the land of Og king of Baſhan. 21, Of,
a Or, into a corner. But the ſingular number is very commonly pur for the plural. Thisjs underirood, cither, 1, Of the Ifraelites, ro whom God divided by lot the Kingdoms and Nations laſt mention» ed, and gave them all the corners, or ſides, or quarters, ( for all theſe the word ſignifies ) of their Land. Or rather, 2. Of the Heathen Nations, whom God in a great meaſure deſtroyed, and the remain«= ders of them he diſperſed into corners ; that whereas before the Iſra- elites came, they had Jarge habirations and dominions; now they were cooped up into corners, ſome of them into one Town or City, and ſome into another, in the ſeveral corners of their Land, as inde:d we find them afterward ; whilſt the Iſraelites dwelr in a large place, and had the poſſeſſion of their whole Land, ſome few and ſmall parcelsexcepted. Compare Deut, 31. 26. where the like phraſe is uſed in the fame ſenſe.
23 Their children alſo multipliedſt thou as the ſtars of heaven, and broughteſt them into the land, concer- ning which, thou hadſt promiſed to their fathers that they ſhould go in to poſleſs it.