Exod. xv. 23, 27.-And when they came to Marah, they could
not drink of the waters of Marah; for they were bitter,
therefore the name of it was called Marah. And the peo-
ple murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?
And he cried unto the Lord; and the Lord showed him a
tree, which, when he had cast into the waters, the waters
were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and
an ordinance, and there he proved them, and said, If thou
wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God,
and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give
ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes; I will
put none of these diseases upon thee which I have brought
pon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee.
And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of wa-
ter, and three score and ten palm-trees; and they encamp-
ed there by the waters.
LECTURE XIII.
HISTORY OF MOSES.
Exod. xvi. 11, 15.-And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel;
speak unto them, saying, At even you shall eat flesh, and in
the morning ye shall be filled with bread: and ye shall know
that I am the Lord your God. And it came to pass, that
at even the quails came up and covered the camp: and in
the morning the dew lay round about the host. And when
the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the
wilderness, there lay a small round thing, as small as the
hoar-frost on the ground. And when the children of Israel
saw it, they said one to another, It is manna; for they wist
not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the
bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.
Exod. xvii. 1, 2, 5, 6.—And all the congregation of the chil-
dren of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after
their journies, according to the commandment of the Lord,
and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the
people to drink. Wherefore the people did chide with Mo-
ses, and said, give us water, that we may drink. And Mo-
ses said unto them, Why chide you with me? Wherefore
do ye tempt the Lord? And the Lord said unto Moses, Go on
before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel;
Exod. xvii. 8, 13.-Then came Amalek, and fought with Is-
rael in Rephidim. And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us
out men, and go out, fight with Amalek; to-morrow I will
stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine
hand. So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought
with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron and Hur went up to the
top of the hill. And it came to pass, when Moses held up
his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his
hand Amalek prevailed. But Moses' hands were heavy:
and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat
thereon: and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one
on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his
hands were steady until the going down of the sun. And
Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge
of the sword.
Exod. xviii. 7, 12.-And Moses went out to meet his father-
in-law, and did obeisance, and kissed him: and they asked
each other of their welfare; and they came into the tent.
And Moses told his father-in-law all that the Lord had
done unto Pharaoh, and to the Egyptians, for Israel's sake,
and all the travel that had come upon them by the way,
and how the Lord delivered them. And Jethro rejoiced
for all the goodness which the Lord had done to Israel;
whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.
And Jethro said, Blessed be the Lord who hath delivered
you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand
of Pharaoh; who hath delivered the people from under the
hand of the Egyptians. Now I know that the Lord is
greater than all gods; for in the thing wherein they dealt
proudly he was above them. And Jethro, Moses' father-
in-law, took a burnt-offering and sacrifices for God: and
Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with
Moses' father-in-law, before God.
a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trum-
pet exceeding loud; so that all the people that were in the
camp trembled. And Moses brought forth the people out
of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the nether
part of the mount. And mount Sinai was altogether on a
smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire; and the
smoke thereof ascended as ths smoke of a furnace, and the
whole mount quaked greatly. And when the voice of the
trumpet sounded long and waxed louder and louder, Mo-
ses spake, and God answered him by a voice. And the
Lord came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the
mount; and the Lord called Moses up to the top of the
mount, and Moses went up. And the Lord said unto Mo-
ses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through
unto the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish. And let
the priests also, which come near to the Lord, sanctify
themselves, lest the Lord break forth upon them.
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2 Tim. i. 8, 10.-Be not therefore ashamed of the testimony
of our Lord, no of me his prisoner, but be thou partaker
of the afflictions of the Gospel, according to the power of
God; who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling,
not according to our works, but according to his own pur-
pose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus, be-
fore the world began; but is now made manifest by the ap-
pearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished
death, and hath brought life and immortality to light
through the gospel.
LECTURE II.
HISTORY OF MOSES.
Exod. xxiv. 15, 18.-And Moses went up into the mount,
and a cloud covered the mount. And the glory of the Lord
abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days;
and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst
of the cloud. And the sight of the glory of the Lord was
like devouring fire on the top of the mount, in the eyes of
the children of Israel. And Moses went into the midst
of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses
was in the mount forty days and forty nights.
Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of
Egypt, we wot not what is become of him. And Aaron
said unto them, Break off the golden ear-rings, which are
in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daugh-
ters, and bring them unto me. And all the people brake
off the golden ear-rings which were in their ears, and
brought them unto Aaron. And he received them at their
hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool after he had made
it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Is-
racl, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
LECTURE IV.
Exod. xxxiii. 3, 11.-And it came to pass, when Moses went
out unto the tabernacle, that all the people rose up, and
stood every man at his tent-door, and looked after Moses,
until he was gone into the tabernacle. And it come to pass,
as Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar de-
scended, and stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the
Lord talked with Moses. And all the people saw the cloudy
pillar stand at the tabernacle-door: and all the people rose
up and worshipped, every man in his tent-door. And the
Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh
unto his freind.
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