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«es icurned 2 in all the wiſdom of the Fyyptians, and was wighty in þ words and in c deeds. a ihe Ez yþtinms weie: Ncient!y tag ons for Learning, eſpecially in Aſtronomy , and {ome other paris 0! Phiioiophy. 6 He was Eloquent. cHlis deeds were ual to his words: He could do as well as ſay, what became him. is * « E LE z "oy > ot 23 anc wnen ne was full c fourty years old, it came 7 into his heartto viſit his brethren the children of £1icCl E e This Aye of. Mor ts nct {et down in his Hiſtory ; but they ROT Have IT by t14.untion, which 1s here confirmed unto us by the rs 1 "hu no Es je oy ae Moje's ſpenr in Pharaoh's Courr, P5485 TIE (Chg its and reiolutions to have been fiom God,
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that ſach a great Courtier ſhould fo far debaſe himſcIf; therefore th; is deſervedly attributed unto his Faith, Heby. 11. 25. which i; rh. nk 'of God, Eph. 2. 8. -. Bit
24 And ſecing one o/ ther ſulfer wrong e, he deſendeq
him, and avenged him taac was oppreiied, and finge th. Egyptian : e This fat of Moſes ſome defend by the Law of Nate, which
1!lows us to proreCt the innocent; bur many things we know Wer done by an extraordinary warrant, Which we are not to imitgre. aor by our own Authority to avenge our felves or others. | 25 || For he ſuppoſed his brethren would have ungee. ſtood, how that God by his hand woulddeliver ther. 2
bur they 5 underſtood not :
f This they might have inferred, 1. From his extraotdinary 3. liverance out of the Egyprians hands,. and out of the River vj, young. 2. From his readineſs to detend them, ('twas wondcit,). thac luch an one as he was, and might have been,thould mind them ; 3. Fromthe drawing near of the time of their deliverance, which they could not without negltence be, wholly ignorant of g By bis
means and Miniſtry. + Stup:dity 3s fr2quently charged upon this ; people: They then did not receive ſes, as theſe now would not ; receive Chriſt. : { 26 And the next day z he ſhewed himſelf unto them ; AS they ſtrove,and wot:ld have & (et them at one again! ' ſaying, Si1s, ye 2 are brethren; why do ye wrong ong ' to another? i As one appointed by God to deliver them,which he had ev'den. ced betore. & With great earneſtneis,and as far as words could do, he | compelled them. / Thcſe wo:ds are mentioned, Exed. 2,13, but ' ſomething other wiſe than here 3 bur the ſenle 1s h:re and there the | ſane. wm Brethien, nor fo being all deſcended from Abraham ind | the Patriarchs; but in that they all worſhipped one an4 the fare ; God, which is the greate!t obligation ro concord and agreementthur can be ; and it any « ffeacz be given, or trelpals committed, It oblige us as much to p-is it by and pardcn it: Forgive the treſpaſs of rj ſervant of the God of thy father, Gen. 50. 17. 27 Bur he char » did his neighbour wrong, thruſt hin
over us ?
a The injurious-are moſt averſe from peace, and one ſin make," way for another. o This was a cautlels cavil, eſpecially from fuch 41 One as had known what Moſes had done, as an eflay of his being | the deliverer of Gods Ijracl
25 p Wilt thou ki!l me as thou didſt the Fyyptian yeſterday ? p He charges this great crime upon Moſes, to hinder him from further rep:oving of him ; though recrimination do not make him, or any other more innocent; yer men ordinarily uſe it, as if it were tone fatisfaftion to them, that they are not wicked alone; but that others are as bad or worſe ; this better befits an Z2;tian than an 1ſracl:ze. - | 29 Then fled Moſes g at this ſaying, and was a ſtranger in the land of r Madian, where he begat two
ſons. |
9 Knowing that what he had done to the Egyprian, . would be dil- covered to Pharaoh, and his life in danger. 7 Inhabited by the poſterity of Madian Abraham's Son by KReturah, Ger. 25.1,% Moſes was fourty years in Ezypr, fourty years in Madian, with 7cthra or Jether, who was called alſ; Revel Exod. 2.18. and Hibah, Nom. 10. 29* and theother forty years in the wilderneſs, which makeup the hundred and 'twenty years ef his life, Dear. 34. 7. This mikes to St. Stephen's purpote, to prove that God is always with them that fear him, in whar Country or place ſoever ; as he was with Araham in Meſopotamia, and with his p:ople in Egyps, fo with Ayes in Madan.
30 Ard when s forty years were expired there ap-
peared to him in the wilderneſs of £ mount Sinz, as angel of the Lord in a » flame of fire in a buſh
s So long it pleaſed God to try Moſes his faith, and his peoples patience. # To the Dcetert of Arabia, where the Law was atter- wards delivered, Exod. 18. c. and 19. 3. « Not a Created but ths Increated Angel, the Angel of th: New-Covenant, as may bt. ſem ver. 32. and by Myſcs patting off his ſhooes becauſe the place x5 holy,
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great admiration hath fome fear joyned wirh it ; Gods though in mercy, was ever fall of cerror and amazement ;
jance ? who chen ſhall be ab!z ro abide #
Exod. 3.7, 5. he 1s alio in the four firft verſes of that Chap'rr called Lord. x God ſtillappeared in ſucha manner as was moſt 11ſtruQive
: Jofrplas Cays, Thar AMe,:5 was lo beautitul, that all who ! ro them he appeared ro, and to us; as herein a flame of fire in s buſh, paſled by, ictt heir bLuliucts they were abour, to gaze at him. |
to ſhew thar he was with his people in all their ſufferings, and would {o provide, that they ſhould not be conſumed by them ; chey might be purified, bur ſhould not be deſtroyed.
31 When Moſes ſaw iz, he y wondred at the fight: And as hedrew near to behold zz, the voice of the Lord came unto him. |
y Sceingthe buih on a ime, and not couſumed ; contrary t2 the narure of devouring flames, that be might be convinced of Gods pre: fence, and mate the more atrentive ro what God ſhould tay, a Prepared to y1eid obedicnce unto it.
32 Saying *, 1 2 am the God of thy fathers, 900+
God of Abraham, and the God of Iſtac, and che God ye of Jacob. Then Moſes 6 trembled, and durit not be-
| hold. |
z That he might know from whom he had his Commiſſion, ay by whom he was to be ſent. a Mention is made of thele, bCCAuIE
God had made unto them rhe promiſe of delivering tne1lr PO