An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth chapters of…

VER. 13.

And by a Prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt: and by a Prophet was he preserved.

STILL the Prophet goes on in showing their meanness in their Ancestors, your Father Jacob was thus ¹mean, a poor exile, he was fain to serve thus for his Wife: It's true, Joseph was a while in prosperity, but when Joseph was dead, all your Ancestors then they were in Egypt as miserable bondslaves; they were there as bondslaves, and how should they get out? there was no way in the world, Pharaoh a mighty King, they had no friends abroad, nor no Armies to help themselves, only a Prophet, God sent them a Prophet, Moses, and what was this Prophet? one that had been a poor Shepherd for forty years together in the Wilderness, and when this Prophet was to go into Egypt to be a deliverer of them, was it ever like that he should be the man? in Exod. 4. 20. the text saith, He took his Wife, and his Sons and set them upon an Ass, we read but of one Beast that he ²had, and so he went into Egypt in a mean and low condition, and when he came there he was not owned, and we never read that Moses did declare who he was, and the children of Israel would not own him, and Pharaoh begun to bustle and would not let Israel go; how should this one Moses deliver them? nay, their bondage did increase when Moses came unto them, Yet by a Prophet (the text saith) the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a Prophet was he preserved. This was a mighty work of God to bring Israel out of Egypt by a Prophet, and to preserve them in the Wilderness; and be the way there is on useful Note, you read in