That he would take away from me but this one deadly plague, wherewith we and our land are thus hurt and spoiled.

XI. 4. "About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt."] —About midnight I will, by my destroying angel, go through the midst of Egypt.

7. "But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast."]-But as for the children of Israel, there shall not be so much as the least danger of any slaughter towards them, or any unquietness amongst them.

XII. 1. “ And the LORD spake unto Moses," &c.]-Now, before the last plague, the Lord had spoken to Moses, &c.

2. "This month shall be unto you the beginning of months."] -This month shall be unto you, both a month of principal account, as also the first in number in all your religious computations; so that from this you shall count the year to begin.

3. "In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb."]-Let every master of a family, within his several household, take unto him a lamb, &c.

5. "Ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats."] -Ye shall celebrate your passover for this once, in respect of those straits wherein you are, either with a lamb or a kid, whether can most commodiously be provided.

6. "And the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening."]-Every one of the congregation, whom it concerns, shall kill the lamb, betwixt the ninth and eleventh hour of the day.

11. "And thus shall you eat it; with your loins girded."]— And thus shall you eat it, for this first time, for the greater haste; with your loins girded.

15. "That soul shall be cut off from Israel."]-That person shall be separated from the communion of the Church, and lie open unto bodily judgments.

36." And they spoiled the Egyptians."]-So they left the Egyptians destitute of their jewels and rich furnitures; who, by their own consent and will, parted with these things, to hire the Israelites unto a more speedy haste, for their own safeguard. 43. "There shall no stranger eat thereof."]--None, that is a stranger in religion, shall eat of it.

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Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel."]--That which

first cometh out of the womb, set it apart to me, and consecrate it to my name; whether it be of man, or of any serviceable beast, among the Israelites: for it is mine by a peculiar right; I having well deserved it, in my preservation from the common destruction.

9. "And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD's law may be in thy mouth."]-This passover shall be as full a remembrance unto thee of God's mercy in thy deliverance, as if thou shouldst, by any signet upon thy hand or frontlet between thine eyes, recall any business or favour which thou wouldest ever think upon; yea, thou shalt keep some record or memorial of this blessing also in those scrolls which thou shalt bind upon thine arm and head.

13. "And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck."]-But the first foal of the ass, because it is an unclean beast, since it may not be sacrificed, thou shalt redeem it with a lamb; or else, because it is not fit, that whatsoever is consecrated to God should be put to profane uses, thou shalt break the neck of it, &c.

18. "And the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt."]—And the children of Israel went up well furnished out of the land of Egypt, both with provision and munition.

XIV. 4. " And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after them."]—And I will, in just judgment, so besot Pharaoh, that, forgetting the experiments of my power, he shall, in hope of prevailing, follow after you.

8. "And the children of Israel went out with an high hand."]But the children of Israel went out by strong hand, under the miraculous guidance and protection of the Almighty.

15. "Wherefore criest thou unto me?"]-Why dost thou thus earnestly importune me in thy secret prayers, which are as so many loud cries in my ears.

19. "And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them."]—And the Angel of the Covenant (which was Christ) removed the signs of his presence from before the Israelites, behind them.

24. "And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians."]-Now, in the morning watch, when the Lord, out of the pillar of fire, who had seemed

all this while to wink at the enterprises of the Egyptians, began, according to our apprehension, to take notice of this their pursuit, &c.

XV. 1. "The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea."]-The troops of horses and their riders hath he overthrown in the sea.

2. "He is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation.”]— I foresee, by that spirit of prophecy which he hath given me, that he shall have a tabernacle reared up for him by his people.

3. "The LORD is a man of war."]-The Lord is a noble warrior indeed.

25. And the LORD showed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet:"]-And the Lord directed him unto a tree, to which he gave such miraculous power, that, it being cast into the waters, the wood thereof changed the whole stream from the former bitterness.

Ibid. "There he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them."]-There he in general gave them rules and advice of holy obedience before him, to prepare them for that exact law which he meant afterwards to deliver, &c.

XVI. 2. "And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured," &c.]-Generally, there was a murmuring over the whole camp of the most part of the Israelites, &c.

4. "Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you."]-Behold, I will cause that which shall be instead of bread, to rain, as it were, out of the clouds upon you.

8. "This shall be, when the LORD shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full."]-Forasmuch as you have murmured, both for flesh and for bread, therefore you shall be filled with both: in the evening shall quails, the daintiest flesh, fall upon your tents; and in the morning, manna.

10. "And, behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud."]—And the glory of God showed itself in an extraordinary manner in the cloud that was wont to appear to them.

15. This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.”— They said one to another, This is a strange food, prepared and given us from above; for they knew not particularly what it was or what to name it.

18. "And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack."]-And having put their common gatherings together into

one heap, it was equally divided amongst them; so as he that had gathered much had no more than an omer, and he that gathered little, wanted nothing of it.

34. "So Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept," &c.]-So Aaron, in process of time, when the tabernacle was erected, laid it up before the ark, which testified God's presence to his people, to be reserved for a monument of God's miraculous provision for Israel.

35. "Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah."]-The omer is the tenth part of the Jewish bushel, which contained about three pecks.

XVII. 12. "But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took," &c.]—And Moses grew faint in body, with long continuance of that earnest prayer, insomuch as his hands grew weary and remiss with lifting up: and they took, &c.

15. "And called the name of it Jehovah-nissi.”]—And he called the name of the place, The altar of Jehovah my banner.

XVIII. 12. "They came to eat bread with Moses' father-in-law before God."]-They came to feast with Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses, in that place where God declared his presence by the cloudy pillar.

13. "And the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening."]-The people stood before Moses to call for justice in their several causes, and resolution in their doubts, &c. even all the day long.

15. "Because the people come unto me to enquire of God."]— Because the people come to me in all weighty causes, to consult with God by me.

19. "Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God."]-Do thou propound the doubts and demands of the people to God, as also their suits, in thy prayers; and report God's answers back again to them.

23. "If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee 80, then thou shalt be able to endure."]-If thou shalt do this thing, which yet I would not draw thee unto, without the good liking and approbation of God, then thou shalt be able to sustain this burden.

XIX. 3. "And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain."]-But Moses went up the hill unto God, whose voice had called to him, and bidden him to ascend, &c.

4.-" And how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself."]-And how I carried you, as it were, aloft, above the reach of all dangers, like as an eagle carrieth her young ones, supporting and helping them with her wings.

6. "And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation."]-Ye shall be, in a special manner, a people devoted peculiarly to my worship.

10. "Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes."]-Go to the people, and, by due preparation, set them apart these two days, for their holy appearance before me; and in a representation of that inward cleanness which I require of them, let them wash their very clothes which they brought with them out of Egypt.

12. “And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about."] -And thou shalt set limits unto the people, how far they shall go, and how near they shall dare to come to the hill, &c.

13. "When the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount."]—When the trumpet, which the angel shall sound to call the people, shall sound long, then shall the people go up towards the mountain, unto the place limited unto them.

15. "Come not at your wives."]-Set yourselves apart from your wives for a time, that your hearts may not be distracted with any carnal delight, now that they are to be fixed upon God.

22. "And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them."]And let those which do the office of the priesthood, namely, the firstborn of the families, who are wont to offer sacrifices to God, see that they specially be devoutly and holily prepared for this great appearance of God.

XX. 5. "For I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me."]—I am so affected to you my people, as a loving husband to his wife, whom he cannot endure to set her affections upon any other: where I see, therefore, a succession of iniquity from the fathers to children, both which hate to be reformed, I punish it not only eternally in themselves, but temporally in many generations after them.

12. "Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thec."]Honour those which are any way set over thee, and give them