Moses his choice with his eye fixed upon Heaven, discovering the happy condition of…

CHAP. I. God will sometimes be honoured, rather with the sufferings of men in high Places, then with their services.

CHAP. I. God will sometimes be honored, rather with the sufferings of men in high Places, then with their services.

Having finished Moses his SELF-DENIAL, namely, what he refused, together with the circumstance of time, and the principle by which he was enabled thereunto: Now what it was that he chose, we are to consider; his appearing for, and the joining himself with the afflicted people of God, although he knew he must needs partake with them in their afflictions; he saw that God would rather be honoured by him in an afflicted estate, then in the enjoyment of all his glory that he might have had; he was willing to submit to God in that way.

HAving finished Moses his SELF-DENIAL, namely, what he refused, together with the circumstance of time, and the principle by which he was enabled thereunto: Now what it was that he chose, we are to consider; his appearing for, and the joyning himself with the afflicted people of God, although he knew he must needs partake with them in their afflictions; he saw that God would rather be honored by him in an afflicted estate, then in the enjoyment of all his glory that he might have had; he was willing to submit to God in that way.

Yet he might have had many reasonings in himself, that might have drawn his heart another way; he might have thought, that in his keeping of the honour and power he had in the Court, he might have done a great deal of service for God, in the improving of his favour with Pharaoh and his Nobles for the people of God; he might have been of great use for them, that it was a thing of great consequence, for them to have a friend in the Court, that might do them so much good, as it was probable he might have done: Yea, he might have thought with himself, Surely God intends to use me here in some great service for his people, for how wonderful hath his Providence been towards me, in bringing me to, in raising of me up, and continuing me in this honour? what a strange and extraordinary Providence of God was it, to dispose of my Parents hearts, to hide me in such a manner as they did amongst the rushes? and that the Daughter of Pharaoh must come at that time to the River, and that I must be found by her, and no body else; and that God should dispose of her heart so, as to commiserate my condition, and to be so inclined towards me as she was, that she should not only preserve my life, but have me brought up as her own Son; that she should have care, that my education might be such, as I might be meet for honour and advancement in her Fathers house, whereas she might have brought me up in some base and servile manner, according to the quality of a Bondslaves child, of an Hebrew child, so much abhorred and hated by the Egyptians; and that God should give me that understanding and capacity, that I should come to be learned in all the learning of the Egyptians;