which he was now about to do; the time being fully come. 5
©; Whar wil Jcr yYenge*
33 Then
fterity, "AT {7A »
his appearing be, when he ſhall come in judginen® to ren
b. VI
away, ſaying*, Whoo inade chee a ruler and a judge, ee \
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Ii | Or, v;
VII. The A
,» Then aid the Lord to kim, c Put off thy ſhooes
VIP:
3 | ; OM thy teer: for the place wheie thou {tandelt isdholy or0u7d;
; Either out of reverence to the Ntivine preſence, as Joh. 5.15. or that thereby he might ſh2w that he reigned himfelt wholly to Gods will and difpoſal ; as in Ruth. 4. 7. Ihe kinfman by pulling off his ſhooe and giving 1t to Boaz, did reftzn all bis right he might hve had t9 R479 and rhe inberitance. ad Witleit God manifeſts bis preſence {i1CTreC. | Bm
24 2 1 haveſeen, I have ſeen the affliction of my peo-
\ 1. . 7 which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, "= 1nd 7 am Core down to deliver them. And now come, p | C C
| will fend tee into Egypt.
+ S:eing 1 have ſeen, T have atrenrively ſeen and conſillered ; Tr is doubled tor to [new the certainty of it ; if earthly parents, efpecial- jy look after their Children when Weak, much more our Heavenly Fither. fF Though bur ſighs, and ſcarce framed into words & Spoken
afrer the manner of men, according vnto which God 15 faid to come 1own unto any, when he delivers rhzm from their rronbles; an1 . to g0 from them, when he leaves them 1n them, fee Exod. 3. 7, 8. from which place according to the reading of the Sepruagine, theſe words are taken, | : R 25 This Moſes whom they refufed,faying, Who made theea ruler anda judge ? tne fame did God fend 72 bea , ruler and a + deliverer by the z hands of the angel which aypeared to him in the buſh. : h Or a Redeemer ; but onely as a Type of Chriſt, in whom alone ; we have red-ption through his blood, Eph. 1.7. As Moſes by the blond it of the Paſchal Lamb, biought foith, and ſaved the people of Iſrael. 6 j The power of the Angel ; it was not Afes, but God that wrought 4 {6 great Salvation. . " i& 36 He brought themout, after that he had * ſhewed at & Lwonders and ſigns in the land of Egypt, and in the / A |Xp.4 ſea, * and In the wilderneſs forty years. in } Godcould with the leaſt word or motion of his Will, ſave his 1 ople; but be chuſerh fo to do his wonderful works, that they may | m bc had in remembrance. {?Tis not agreed why ris fo called ; but of + 6, ( this name Of that Sea 15 mentioned in prophane Authors. This whole ; verſe, as divers others, refer to the Hiſtory cf it in Exod, from the Ma beginning fO the fifteen Chapter. - & This is that 2 Moſes which ſaid unto the chil ch 27 A # 4 Ng « dren of lirael, ® A » Propher ſhall the Lord your God raiſe up unto you of your brethren ||, Iike unto me F, him al 7 ſha! ye o hear,
n St. $:0pe would ſhew, that he was ſo far from ſpeaking againſt om Mo Gf, tas they fallly imagined) that he recommended none but him, = whom af:/2» had to long before ſpoken of, » Chriſt the Metliub, fit and head of the Prophets. See Chap. 3. 22. o Or obey. oy > 3$* This is he chat was inthe pchurchin the wilder-
neſs; with + q the ange! which ſpake to him inthe mount JF 5-Sina, and 2zrh0U7 fathers : who received the r lively wo oracies to give Unto us.
p Or, Congregation z; with the reſt of the people in all their dil- Ghcult Journey. 4 See "wer. 30. of this . Chap. r Gods Law and the Word 15 ſo called, as the onely rule to wa.k by unto Life, Dear. WW 32.47. It is there ſid to be our life, and it is tne onely ordinary Wore: means of a Spiritual and holy Life, which it begers and pre- - ſerves .
Num. ;
_ 29 Whom s our fathers would not obey, but thruſt
nakes bm from them, and 1n 7 cieir hearts turned back ag«in
that to Egypt,
1am ;Their glory being in their Fathers, St. Stephen minds them
& 10 tizt many of them rebelled againſt God, and his ſervant Moſes ; 5 tliey { their poſterity ) now were reb-llious againſt Chriſt, who
> aÞ- cam? to fave them, as Zoſes before had done; but from a greater
4 bondage, and by more valuable means, # Not ſo much rowards that Countrey, or food they had there, (Garlick and Onions ) as to-
eople wards thei: Idolatry and Supertition ; as 1n the following vetleap-
after- Ou
oh .,, 40* Saying unto Aarcn, Make us « gods to go be-
i ſeem fore us: for as for x this Moſes which brought us out
= of the land of Egypt, we y wot not what is become
calle of him,
rugive
a buſh, % According to the Eryptions, who held that there were many
vas? Gods, and divers degrees of Gods they therefore fpe.k in the "nioht plural number : x Though they confels the great deliverance wrought 2 by Moſes bis means ; yer how contempribly do they peak of him. Goh: 7 They could not bur know that Moſes was gone up into the y Mount unto God, at his command, and had nor forgorten them. ; Lot but had I:ft Aaron and Hur to govern them; yet they foon forgot both God and Moſes, notwithſtanding the Jarge and Jate experience yo the = had of his wonders ; this is lett upon record againft them, Pſal. ds pre- 00, 13,21,
ay, and 4 And they z madea calf in thoſe days, and offered F lacrifice unto the 2 iGo], and brejoyced in cthe works
, 6 0% + 0 Cf their own hands.
e God fie
. © In imitation of the Eg 39tions, who worſhipped their God Apis
not b&+ | in that, or the like form of an Ox. a The Calf which they had made, which they could not be fo fottiſh as to rerminate rheir wor-
an, and PIN, knowing that they themſelves had made it, and it had not becaule made them ; yer they are for this charged.to have commirted Idola- poſterity x, Gr. 10. 6, +, 6 Which joy they exprets by feaſting, lingios, bar wes Ex02, 32.7. £90 @T:'s Idol and Idois, generally are $41 10%» "Ro, P/al. 15.4. and 135 i5. which is enough to ſpeak their
mit XF ; 4 . .* .. 3 punts and Vanity 5 vain Man Can make but vain Gods.
4 Then God 7 curacd, and e gave them up to wor-
ohat Wil
y 12s x Yell»
CF i a 4 if jn the buy
{hip fthe hoſt of heaven. ; as it is writte: 2 of the Prophets, O ye houſe of Eiraet 5, have ve offcrgd to me ſlain beaſis, and facrifices, by the « | 2 Io wh FIVLS wb "þ Sasw 4 a years in the wildernels ?