Exodus 19

Exodus 19:3

VVEnt up unto God] To mount Sinai, where God had brought the pillar of cloud, wherein he was present.

Exodus 19:4

Bae you] Taken you into my charge and government, conducted, and defended you, as the eagle curieth her young ones upon her wings, Deuteronomy 32:11.Unto my selfe] to this place where I appear unto you, and communicate my self unto you in grace and blessing, as to my children into my house, and consequently into the land of Canaan, where I have established my firme residence on earth, and finally to heaven, the seat of my glory, and last marke of your vocation.

Exodus 19:5

Treasure] A people esteemed above all other, to whom I will communicate my most peculliar favours and of whom I will take a particular care. The Hebrew word signifieth a store house of rare and precicus things All the earth] And therefore also have I freely chosen that people, which it pleased mee to chuse.

Exodus 19:6

A kingdom] not a prophane state, but sanctifed, for the true service of God, over which the Son of God raigneth, not only as a King to command and threaten: but as a Priest also to reconcile, expiate, pardon, &c. Psal. 110. 4. tempering the one office with the other.

Exodus 19:7

The llers] See Exo. 〈◊〉. 16.

Exodus 19:10

Sanctifie them] Give them order to cleanse themselves from all corporall and spirituall uncleannesse, and bid them prepare themselves to receive my Law with all manner of devotion: See Gen. 35 2. Jo. 3. 5. and 7 13.

Exodus 19:11

Will come down] He will appeare here below, in the likenesse of that glory in which he dwelleth n heaven.

Exodus 19:12

Set Bounds] not only to keep the people in awe, and feare of God, 1 Samuel 6:19. but also to teach them, that through the Law there is no accesse to God by grace, Hebrews 12:2. there being always between the bar of mans sin, and Gods justice, Isaiah 59:2. and that betwixt God, proceeding according to his Law, and sinneful man, there needeth a Mediator, for satisfaction, and expiation, as Moses was for relation, and communication, Galatians 3:19.

Exodus 19:13

Soundeth] namely with an even and sweet sound, opposite to a loud and rough sound. 16. by which was signified the voyce of the law which thunders, terrifies and beates off; as by the other, the voyce of the Gospel, which calleth, and gathereth together: See Numbers 10:7. 1 Kings 19:12. Hebrews 12:19 To the] drawing neer the foot thereof, v. 17.

Exodus 19:15

Your wives] The Italian hath it, To a woman] though it be your lawfull wife, the use of which doth not contaminate the conscience, Hebrews 13:4. Yet it having much sensuality in it, this was one of the ceremoniall abstinences of the Law, 1 Samuel 21:1-15; 1 Samuel 4:1-22; 1 Samuel 5:1-12. Zach. 7. 3.

Exodus 19:16

Thunders] tokens of Gods terrible Majesty, and to teach us that the Law was given after sin, to abate mans pride, to terrifie and awake mens consciences, to have recourse to the grace of the Gospel, Heb. 12 19 A thick cloud] as it were to shadow the brightnesse of Gods glory, which is not communicated unto us by the Law, but by the only grace of Jesus Christ, See 1 Kings 8:12. 2 Cor. 3. 13. 18 and 4. 6 Trumpet] an instrument of command, justice, war and uproare. A figure of the rigor of the law in commanding, and of its force, in piercing the consciences, Hebrews 12:19 opposite to the sweet sound of the Gospel, 1 Kings 19:12: All the people] yea and Moses himself, Hebrews 12:21.

Exodus 19:18

In fire] to represent the power of Gods word, like unto that of fire, Jer. 23 29

Exodus 19:19

By a voyce] the Italian hath it By thunder] by a loud and resounding voyce: Yet distinct and intellgible; see Psalms 81:8 Iohn 12. 29

Exodus 19:22

The Priests] Before the Priesthood was restrained within the tribe of Levi, the first born of great families did execute the place; see Exodus 24:5. Num. 8 16:which come nre] which present themselves before God, and go between men and him by prayeis, sacrifices & ordinary service: see Leviticus 10:3 Break forth] lst he send upon them some suddain & unresistible plague to cast them to the earth.

Exodus 19:23

Ca〈…〉] they are sufficiently warned to take heed, d their own fear keepeth them back sufficiently, sanctifie it] separate it by this signe from all approaches and contamination of sinfull men.