CONTENTS
This psalm is descriptive of the going forth of Israel from Egypt; but
as this was a transaction typical of the church being led forth by the
great Captain of their salvation from the Egypt of sin and death, the
whole ought to be read with reference to Christ in his victories for
his peopl... [ Continue Reading ]
Reader, do not fail to remark, that when Israel was brought out of
Egypt, the Lord set up his tabernacle among them, and manifested his
presence to them. And when the Lord Jesus brings out his people from
the Egypt of the world, doth he not still fulfil that sweet promise,
Lo, I am with you always,... [ Continue Reading ]
The Red Sea, and Jordan, both withdrew for Israel. Reader, recollect
(for there is a great beauty in the reflection) that forty years
intervened between the period of the Red Sea retiring, and that of the
river Jordan stopping in its course; but as both were thus
miraculously wrought upon by the pow... [ Continue Reading ]
The sacred writer is here triumphing in the grace and sovereignty of
God, and demands by what power it was that the laws of nature should
be so changed, in producing such wonders in creation? Moses sang to
the same amount, when celebrating the event on the banks of the Red
Sea. The Dukes of Edom (sa... [ Continue Reading ]
Here, the answer is given. As Sinai moved at God's presence, so
mountains of sin, nations of idolatry, Satan, and all the powers of
darkness, fall away beneath the sovereignty of Jesus, and his gospel.
Yea, the very stony hearts of the most hardened transgressors, must
become hearts of flesh, and ev... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS
READER, let you and I ponder over the solemn, though delightful
reflections, suggested by this psalm. Behold in it the state of the
church, and of every individual of that church, as they are, in a
state of unregenerated nature, before the Lord brings them out of the
Egypt of sin and cor... [ Continue Reading ]