THEYR P~OR Tfl'B""' I nrrcased Cruelty... 126 The Fierceness of Man turns to God's The lacrense of Trouble for God's Praise... ... !GO People no Proof of the Failure of Miracles the Credentials of nn Ambns- His Purpose 128 sador from God A Blind Obedience to the Commands A God to Pharaoh lGI of 'fyrants not Lnudable 129 Heart Hardening ... IG2 Vicnrious Suffering 129 God still Glorified amid Humnn A Wicked Man's Persistence in Wrong Weakness and Sin Doing... 131 False Imitations of Thing-a Divine not Sulferings, even at the hand of Lawful difficult of Detection }f;6 Authorities, not Always Deserved... 132 The Rod tamed into a Serpent 167 Unheeded Expostulation ... 132 The First Sign to Pharaoh ; the Rot! Pho.ro.oh's first Response ; his Answer becomes a Serpent 169 in Deed 133 God's Punishments Appropriate anti The Troubled find, Consolation in God Terrible 172 only ... 134 The Nile turned into Blood 173 The Servants of God Liable to Reproach The First Plague; the Water turned from Friendij no less than Enemies 134 into Blood 176, l N Murmuring and Faith 135 The Power of Satan is with all Deceiv- Thoughtless Smiters of a Brother in ableness 177 Adversity 137 God Allows Men to Seek and Obtain The Religious Soul takes its Griefs to Alleviation of his J udgmenta 177 God ... 139 The Great Conflict 178 '' The Lord He is the God" 179 CHAPTER VI. God's Condescension to a Weak Faith HO CHAPTER VIII. God's Names and their Importance .. , 141 God a Keeper of Covenants HI God can Scourge Men beyond En- A Divine Commentary on e. Divine durance with a Whip of Straw 181 Name... HI Three Plagues-Frogs, Lice, Flies ... 181 A Rich Promise ... 143 The Plague of Frogs 185, 184 God Encourages Moses in His Despon- God's Mercy when Men Repent ever dency... 143 so Little 187 The Message to Afflict Israel 145 Double-minded Men, &c. .. . 188 The Lord thy God is One God 145 Moral Avalanches not easily Arrested The New Commission 147 b 1~ The Po.ins of the Lower Life Shutting The Plague of Lice 189 out the Blessings of the Higher One 148 The Third Ple.,,one-the Gnats, the The Servant of God must Labour Finger of God 191 Unceasingly 151 God puts Division between the Good Shakeu Faith and e.n Unshaken Pur- and Bad, both Here and Hereafter 193 pose ... 151 The Plague of Flies 195, 193 The Uncircumcised Lips 153 The Fourth Plague 196 The Contagion of Despair . . . 154 Compromise not Allowable in Religion 198 The Historice.1 Character of Real Reve- The Doty of God's Serva.nm to Rebuke lation ... 156 the Great of the Earth 198 _The Genealogy of Moses e.nd Aaron... 157 CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER VII. The Barthen of Man's Sin Presses on God Assigns to each Man his Intellec- the Brute Creation 199 tual Grade 160 The Plague of Murrain of Beasts 200 j,.. INDEX.
TTTJl:lfF. J'AOR CHAPTER XII. 'l'he Fifth PIR1nie... 201 m1'll1< PA.OW
Bin PunishNl by Physical Suffer- The Advantages of the Ecclesie.stical ing-, &e. 203 Calendar 262 ThC' Plague of Doils anrl Bh,ins 205. 206. 20! The Pll.880ver proper 263 The Metbo<l of the Diviue Rule ov<'r • The P&88over contefoed in the Eu- Bild Men. &c. ... 209 charist... 265 The Plague of Hail 210 The Beginning of Months ... 265 The Road to Rum 212 The PB.880ver 272, 266 "The Earth ie the Lord's," &c. 218 The Institution of the Passover 268 "Harden not Your Hearts" 215 The Pe.ssover Lamb, a Prophetic Pic- The Seventh Plague-Hail Mingled ture of Obrist and His Salvation ... 271 with Fire 216 Christ His People's Salvation and Mercy in Judgment 218 Strength 271 The Mock Repentance of a Half- The Pe.ssover Feast the Type of the Awakened Sinner, &c. 220 Christian Life ... 272 If One Died for all, then all Died ... 278 No Safely for Ma.n beyond the Limits CHAPTER X. Proteoted by the Lamb's Atoning God's Mercietl and Wondrous Works Blood ... 275 to be Remembered 225 The Obligation of Men to Teach the God's Long Suffering Towar<h the True Meaning of Rites and Cere- Wicked has a Limit 226 monies to their Children .. . 276 M.11.U'I! lnterpo~ition with Good Advice Christ our Passover 277 may come Too Late 227 "What Mean ye by this Service ? " ••• 278 The Terribleness of God's Severer The Children's Question in Cunaan. .. 278 Judgment.s 227 Israel and the Sacrifice for Sin 280 Tile Agency of Nature used by God The Death of the First-born 263, 281 both in In.11.icting and :Eemovi.ng Israel's Going Forth from Egypt a Jud,,"Illents 228 Pattern to Oppressed Churches 289, 285 A New Message ... 229 Pharaoh's Prayer .•• 286 A Pla,.,"lle of Locust.s 232,237,230 The Dismissal 287 The Tales of a Grandfather 235 The EKodus as a Fact in History 290 God's Judgments on Sin, &c. 236 The Mixed Multitude 291 The Children of Darlmeu have Dark- Egypt's Sorrow: Israel's Joy 292 ness, &c. 238 March at Midnight 293 Compromise, &c. .. . 239 God's Discipline of His Chosen Ones 29-1 Bad Men, &c. 241 The EKodus 295 The Plague of Darkness 242, 244, 241 P88SOYer PreceplB realized in Christian Practice 297 The Spirit of the Psseover Ordinance 2l.18 CHAPTER XI. Crises bring out Men's Characters, &c. 246 The Beginning of the End ... 247 CHAPTER XIIL How God Justifies the Trust of all who Hope in His Mercy ... 248 The Dedication and Redemption of The Issues of Life and Death are in the Firat-bom .. . 800 the Hand of God 249 The Rightful Use of Church Ordin- I< ig-htecus Anger .. . 250 e.noes ... 301 A FiDRle 251 The Sanctiftcation of the First-born 308, 302 '!'he Tenth Plague 253 •• Remember this Day " 303 Man's lll-doio.g causes God's Wonders How to Declare God's Salvation 304 tu Le Multiplied 256 Rcmcm ber 304 INDEX. V
TflF.HP. PAOl!I TTTP:M0 P,\1:1~ H ie tl10 Met.hod or tho Divine Action The Good RMolntious of the Worldly tu Aocomplieh Ende by Cirouitons are Short Lived :12 l Mertns 306 The Pnrsnit 3~~ It is n. Ohrietinn Daty to Carry with Jehovah Ila,rdening Pharaoh's Henrt 3:l I as on tho Path of Life the Bones of Divine Trial a. Touchstone to Distin- Onr Doad 307 guish Faith from Unfaithfulness... 329 Tho Way of the Wildemese by the The Deliverance ... 329 Red Sea 308 Crael Words out of Cowardly Hearts 331 Josoph's Bones ,., 309 The Passage of the Red Sea 333 Israel's Journey the Emblem of the The Reward of Faith 335 Christie.n's Pilgrime.ge .. . 310 Speak with the Children of Isra.el, &c. 335 God's Guide.nee of His People 311 Obedience necessary to Salvation . . . 336 The Fiery, Oloudy Pillar 312 God Completes the Deliverance of the Fire and Cloud .. . 313 Israelites, &c. .. . 336 God Protects His Own, but in Strange Waye... 340 CHAPTER XIV. Light to the Friend, Darkness to the Foe ... 342 God's Trie.ls of His Faithful Ones 315 The Goodness and Severity of God .. . 342 The Comme.nd to Ence.mp by the Sea 316 We Walk by Faith, not by Sight ... 34.3 Israel Stricken with Terror by Reason God's Dealings with the Wicked and of a Deliverance not yet Completed 318 Impenitent 346 Trial and Judgment 319 The Overthrow of the Egyptia.na ... 346