An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

Yet I rather take it here for a Rod, which imports chastening or correcting, as we translate, Whether it be for Correction. They that carried the Rod or the Sceptre, had also the power of correction in their hand, as was touched before; and that may be one Reason why when God sent Moses to Pharaoh (Exod. 4.17.) upon that great Message, the deliverance of the children of Israel out of Egypt, he commanded him to take his Rod in his hand; which Rod held out these two things. First, that M•ses came not as a private man to him, but like a Prince, like an Ambassador from the great King, or like one whom he had appointed to take upon him the government of that people, with a Sceptre in his hand. Secondly, to let Pharaoh know, that as God sent him with a power, or clothed him with a Commission to treat with him, so with a power to scourge or plague him, even with ten Plagues. As if the Lord had said, O Pharaoh, Seest thou this Rod in the hand of my servant Moses; assure thy self, thou shalt have stroke upon stroke, plague upon plague, if thou wilt not let my people go. But of that by the way. He causeth it to come for correction, or for a Rod.

Yet I rather take it here for a Rod, which imports chastening or correcting, as we translate, Whether it be for Correction. They that carryed the Rod or the Scepter, had also the power of correction in their hand, as was toucht before; and that may be one Reason why when God sent Moses to Pharaoh (Exod. 4.17.) upon that great Message, the deliverance of the children of Israel out of Egypt, he commanded him to take his Rod in his hand; which Rod held out these two things. First, that M•ses came not as a private man to him, but like a Prince, like an Embassador from the great King, or like one whom he had appointed to take upon him the government of that people, with a Scepter in his hand. Secondly, to let Pharaoh know, that as God sent him with a power, or cloathed him with a Commission to treat with him, so with a power to scourge or plague him, even with ten Plagues. As if the Lord had said, O Pharaoh, Seest thou this Rod in the hand of my servant Moses; assure thy self, thou shalt have stroke upon stroke, plague upon plague, if thou wilt not let my people go. But of that by the way. He causeth it to come for correction, or for a Rod.