A. To teach the Benefits of God to their Pofterity. Q. Wherein confifts their Watchfulness? A. In that they attended all Night for the Hour of their Departure, Chap. xii. 30. Q. What do they give us to understand by that? A. This, that as they minutely waited upon the Lord for their Deliverance out of Bondage, to go to the Earthly Canaan: So ought we continually to attend and make ourselves ready to our Paffage out of this miferable World, to the Heavenly Canaan of perpetual Joy and Happiness, CHAP. XIV to XL. Q. After Ifrael's Departure, kat Vice do we note furvived in PHAROAH ? A. Inveterate Malice, which feldom dies but with the Ruin of him in whom it abides. $ Q. How did it break forth? A. By preparing a mighty Hoft to follow the Ifraelites, Chap. xiv. Q. For what Intent ? A.To be revenged upon them, and quite destroy them. Q How did he profper? A. As all malicious Perfons commonly do. Q. How is that? A. He and all his Malice perifhed in the Place where he thought to have been their Overthrow. Q. Where was that? A. In the Red-Sea ?.. Q. What was the Sin of the People in that Place? A. Weaknefs of Faith. Q. How was that? A. Notwithstanding their ftrange Deliverance of late, yet when they faw the Red-Sea before them, and the Egyptians at their Backs, they began to diftruft the Power of GOD, and to rail upon Mos E s.. Q. How were they delivered? A MOSES divided the Waters and they paffed through. Ver. 27. Q. How was GOD honoured by PHAROAH? A. As he will be of all his Enemies, in their Destruction. Q. How many Times did the Ifraelites murmur against GOD before be punished them? A. Four. Which From this to Zin was 32 Miles more. The Quails and Manna from Heaven are a Type of our Saviour JESUS CHRIST, that heavenly Manna which raifeth is unto eternal Life. John 5. From thenoe back to Marah, a Defart where Mafes made the Water tweet by throwing in Wood, there are 12 Wells, and 7 Palm Trees, Exod. 16. Numb, 33. The Myftery whereof is, when Adam and Eve had caten of the forbidden Fruit, they brought Bitterness through all the World, yea the Bitterness of Sin and Death: But God fhewed unto Mofes another Tree, that is, our Lord JESUS CHRIST, who being thrown into the Waters of Bitter nefs, Aflictions, Calamities, Miferies, yea the Death upon the Crofs for our Sakes and Sins; underwent the Curfe of the Law, that fo taking away the Bitterness, we might be made capable of that fweet and delectable Place of eternal Life. This Defart lay 80 Miles from Thanis in Egypt, and 140 frem Mi aian, where he came to his Brother Aaron, Exod. 4. from Horeb or Sinai 64 Miles, Exod. ii. 7. Midian Q. Which be they? A. First, at the Red-Sea, Chap xiv Second, At the Waters of Marab, Chap. xv. 24. Third, When they wanted Flesh, Chap. xvi. 13, 14. Fourthly, When they wanted Water, Chap. xvii. 6. Q. What do we learn by this? A. The exceeding Sufferance of GOD, and exceeding Sinfulness of Man. Q. How did GOD deliver them at all thefe Times ? A. With great Admiration. Q. How was that? A. The first Time, He di vided the Red-Sea; at the Second Time, He made the Bitter Water sweet; at the Third, He gave them Quails and Manná from Heaven; at the Fourth He made a Fountain of Water gush out of an hard Rock. Q. How did they offend the Fifth Time? A. More greviously than before. A. They made a golden Calf, and worshipped it for GO D. Q. What moved them to make the likeness of a Calf, rather than any other Creature? A. The Corruption which they learned amongst the Egyp tians, who did worship Oxen and Kine. QDid God now punish them? Yes, (and Time I think) ment? 4. Three Thoufand of them were flain with the Swords of their own Brethren, Chap. xxxij. 28. Q. Would not G O D utterly have defroyed them? A. Yes, but for the Prayer of MosES. Q. What was his Prayer? A. He defired his Name might be rather blotted out of the Book of Life, than God fhould quite root out that Nation, Chap. xxxi. 32. Q. What do we learn by that? A. The Love and Care which good Magiftrates ought to have over their People. all Q. Where was MOSES wher this Offence was committed? A. Upon Mount Sinai. Q.Was not his Abfence in fome pa t caufe of their idolatry ? A. Yes. Midian was a Metropolitan City of the Midianites near to the Red Sea, 160 Miles South from Jerufalem. In this City Jethro dwelt, and here Mofes married alfo it was the Refidence of the Idumaan Kings. 1. Kings 11. There was allo another City of the fame Name near Arnon, 34 Miles Eaft of Jerufalem; 10 that the Midianites were feated near the Red Sea, in Arabia Petrea to the Contines of the Moabites, and were derived from Midian the Son of Abraham, which he had by his Wife Kethura. Gen. 25. The Red Sea lies between Arabia and Egypt, (in the Scriptures it is called the Scaly Sea) and as Strabo, lib. 16. obferveth, was fo called from Erithred, and thence, Mare Erithraum, because the Word Erithreum in Greek, fignifies Red J A. In Thunder and Lightning. Chap. xix. 16. Q. Why was it given with Such Terror? A. That the People might the more reverence Him that gave it. Q. What was required of the People before they came to receive the Law ? A. Two Things. Q. Which be they? 4. To fanctify themfelves for three DaysSpace, and not to touch the Skirts of the Mountains. Q. What do we learn by thefe tivo things ? A. Not to come to hear the Word of GOD with corrupt Hearts. Nor to pry further into bis Secrets than we are limitted. Q. What is generally commanded by the Law? A.That we fhould love GOD with all our Souls, and our Neighbours as our felves. Q. What is particularly forbilden by the Law? A. Murder, curfing, efpccially our Parents, crucity towards Servants; not to do hurt, but to make Satisfaction, Fornication, Witchcraft, Buggary, or carnal Copulation with Beafts, Idolatry, Oppreffion against Widows and Strangers, all kind of Ufury, all Railing and Evil-fpeaking, efpecially againft Magiftrates, becaufe to speak against them is to fpeak againft GOD, all Falfhood, all unlawful Detaining, of our Neighbours Goods, all taking of Bribes, all Perjury, and whatfoever may infect the Soul, or offend God. Q. What is the Reward of their Sins ? A. Death. Q. Such as were pardonable, how were they pardoned? A. By offering Sacrifice. Q. What Doctrine do we learn by the Sacrifice of the Jews? A. Four Points of Doctrine. Q. Which be they? A. First, their Thankfulness, to fhew all they had came from GOD; Secondly, Their Obedience, to fhew they were willing to obey GOD; Thirdly, Their Humility to fignify, that what was done to the Thing offered the Offerer had obferved; Fourthly, Their Hope to fhew their Sacrifices did figure the Death of CHRIST, whereby their Paffage into Paradice, from whence they were expuls'd,might be opened to them again. Q. Are fuch Sacrifices to be used of Chriftians ? A. No. A. Because they are abolished by the Death of CHRIST, an allfufficient Sacrifice once for all. Q. What Red or Purple; the Latines call it Mare rubrum ; the Hebrews, Jamfuph, a Scaly Sca, becaufe of Red Scales that grow in it It is alfo called the Arabian Gulf, (running from South to Weft) all which Names are at this Day ufed. Erithraa was Son to Perfeus and Andromeda, who fometimes dwelt in an Ifland of that Sex. At the utmolt, Bounds hereof are feen the admirable Works of Pharoah Meco, who would have brought this Sea to the River Nilus, and fo might have filed into the Mediterranean Sea; but this Work he could not finish, being pofed by the wife Men of Egypt. Q. What else do we learn by this Book of Exodus ? A. Tvo Things. Q. Which be they? A. The Election of Magiftrates, and the Order of GOD fet in his Church. Q. What kind of Men ought . They ought to be adorned. A. To all Perfons at allTimes. Q. What Kind of Men must they be? A. Such as have imprinted upon their Breafts Knowledge and Holiness. Chap xxviii. 20. Q. Whofe Gift is the Knowledge of Handicrafts? A. The Gift of GOD. A. Bazalel, and Aboliah. Q. To what End did He teach them? A. For the furnishing the Temple. Q. Who provided them Stuff Q. In what Manner? Q. What do we learn by that? Q. With whom did Israel fight their firft Battle after they came into the Wilderness? A. With the Amalekites. Q. Which be they? A. The Efficacy of Prayer, and that we ought not to faint in A. Because he first taught Prayer, least with falling with our Hands, we fail in our Request. LEVI them. "Q. To whom? F 2 As Mofes led the Children of Ifracl through this Sea, and delivered them from the Bondage and Captivity of the Kings of Egypt; fo JESUS CHRIST the Son of God, by his precious Blood, has delivered us from the Bondage and Tyranny of Satan: As Pharoah and all his Hoft was there drowned ; fo the Sin of Adam, Death, and the Devil, in that Sea of CHRIST's Blood is utterly drowned, and we delivered from the Pit of Hell. There was fome other Places of Note through which Mofes and the Children of Ifrael travelled; as Rithmath. Here the Children of Ifrael pitched their Tents, Numb. 33. and it is very likely the Angel of the Lord appeared to the Prophet Elijah, and brought him Meat and Drink, Cades Barnea was a City of the Idumaans, from whence Mofes fent Spies into the Land of Canaan, who brought of the Fruit of the Land; but all of them difcouraged the People, only Caleb; wherefore they murmured, and the Lord was angry and would not let them enter into the Land of Promife: So turning their Journey, they travelled in the Defart Forty Years. Gen. Numb. 13. 27. 33. 34. Deut. 1. Pfal., 29. Ezek, 17. 14: 16.23 LEVITICUS. Chap. I. to the End. Question. WHAT is fet down in this BOOK? A. The Duty of the Levites and therefore it is called Leviticus. Q. What was their chiefeft Duty ? A. To facrifice. Q. How many Circumftances were they to, obferve? A. Four. Q. Which be they ? Q. What did the Ifraelites A. Either Things having Life, as Bullocks, Lambs, &c. or Things without Life, as Oyl, fine Flower, Water, &c. Q. For kom did they facrifice? A. For themfelves, and others. A. In the Temple. Q. What is the Chriftian Su crifice? A. Prayer and Thanksgiving. Q. In how many Prints doth the Ifraelites and the Chriftians. Sacrifice agree? A. In Six. Q. IVbish is the First? A. As theirs was feafoned with Salt; fo ours must be feafoned with the Truth of a good Conscience. Q. What is the Second? A. As theirs was brought to the Priefs; fo ours must be prefented to God. Q. What is the Third? A. As theirs were flain; fo we must kill ou lewd Affections. Q. What is the Fourth? A. As theirs was wafhed with Water, fo ours must be wafhed with the Tears of Re- . pentance. Q. What is the fifth? A. As theirs was without Blemish, fo ours must be without Hypocrify. Q. What is the fixth? A. As theirs was kindled with Fire, so must with Zeal. ours be Q. Whence In the 26th Chapter, God declares if they did not repent, that they and their Cattle fhould be devoured by wild Beafts: The principal of which were Lions, unto which the Depopulation of Countries is afçribed in Sripture particularly by the Prophet Nehemiah, Chap. 4. 7. 115 where the Afyrians, and Nebuchadnezzar are therefore compared to Lions, becaufe by thofe fierce Animals Counties were fometimes laid defolate. Ις |