CONTENTS Moses the minister of God is represented in this Chapter, as prosecuting his great commission in the chastisement of the King of Egypt and his servants, for the deliverance of Israel from bondage. Under the command and by the authority of God, Moses calls for three successive plagues, in t... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 107:40; Psalms 7:1... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 78:45; Revelation 16:13... [ Continue Reading ]
Reader! remark with me, how the Lord sometimes, for the greater display of the sovereignty of his power, permits evil men to proceed to surprising lengths. Is not this what Paul alludes to? 2 Timothy 3:8. Read that scripture also: Job 12:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
See another memorable instance of the state of a distracted conscience. Acts 24:25.... [ Continue Reading ]
This reference to the time when the plague should be removed at Pharaoh's own appointment, prevented the possibility of having it supposed that it was the effect of human contrivance, and made it a more full demonstration of a divine power. Deuteronomy 32:35.... [ Continue Reading ]
Joel 2:20... [ Continue Reading ]
Pause, Reader, over this verse, and observe in it an awful testimony to the great leading truths of scripture. Until grace enters the heart, no corrections, though ever so great, ever so heavy, ever so multiplied, will reach the soul. See that scripture: Psalms 78:31. Gracious God! sanctify thy affl... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 105:31. Reader! remark with me, what small and apparently contemptible instruments the Lord works with. He might have commissioned beasts of prey, or sent scorpions among them: but he chooses, as in the gospel dispensation, weak things to confound the mighty.... [ Continue Reading ]
Revelation 11:14... [ Continue Reading ]
Let the Reader consult what was said on the 7th Verse, and now behold the Lord's design in the permission. Gracious God! how dost thou compel thy very enemies to acknowledge thy sovereignty? Reader! shall not you and I? See Psalms 64:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
Observe! how the Lord warns again and again, before he repeats his punishments.... [ Continue Reading ]
The plague of flies was a striking display of divine sovereignty. For as Beelzebub, the god of flies, so called, was probably one of the idols of Egypt, nothing could be more admirably suited to show the Lord's displeasure, than by punishing them in the very objects of their own idolatry.... [ Continue Reading ]
How sweet to observe the tokens of distinguishing grace! See that scripture, Malachi 3:17. Hence from this conviction David sung, Psalms 27:5. And what will be the final discrimination of the righteous from the wicked? See the words of the Lord Jesus on that point: Matthew 25:31.... [ Continue Reading ]
Psalms 78:45... [ Continue Reading ]
Sacrifice to the Lord requires a previous abstraction from men. 2 Corinthians 6:17; Hosea 2:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
Observe, the Lord will not abate in his demand: see Exodus 3:18.... [ Continue Reading ]
Observe, how Pharaoh seems to relax: see Exodus 5:2. So said Simon Magus. Acts 8:24.... [ Continue Reading ]
Reader! admire with me the loveliness of Moses' character. See his boldness in the service of his God, undaunted by Pharaoh's presence or anger. Behold his charity in desiring Pharaoh to deal no more deceitfully. Remark that charity displaying itself, in entreating the Lord for the removal of the pl... [ Continue Reading ]
James 5:16. But in this scripture and every other of the like kind, keep in view Him, and his precious office as our intercessor, in whose blood and righteousness alone Moses, Daniel or Job, found favour with God.... [ Continue Reading ]
Reader! in the awful character of Pharaoh, behold the dreadful history of every hardened transgressor; for in all instances, more or less, it is the same. The afflictions which tend not by divine grace to soften the heart, will tend without grace to harden. And the man that is not made better by cor... [ Continue Reading ]