Exodus 9:35

REFLECTIONS

Reader! may it be your happiness and mine to follow up the design of the Holy Ghost in dwelling so particularly on this interesting history, and not take our leave of the solemn instructions contained in it, until by divine teaching it hath ministered to this end, to make us wise unto salvation through the faith which is in Christ Jesus. How very awful are God's judgments! How very comforting the review of his mercies! Never my soul, never may I lose sight of those distinguishing marks of the Lord's love to his people in times of peril. He that severed between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt still separates between the precious and the vile. It is a sweet relief to a poor afflicted soul in a trying hour, that the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation. Jesus is still the hiding place from the storm, and the covert from the tempest. And when the Lord hides his saints, he shows himself. Precious is that scripture, which the Lord hath left on record for his church: I the Lord do keep it, I will water it every moment lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day. Isaiah 27:3.