Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ

THIS was obscurely represented unto the Church of old, Exo. 3. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. And the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a Flame of Fire out of the midst of a Bush, and he looked, and behold the Bush burned with Fire, and the Bush was not consumed. And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great Sight, why the Bush is not burnt. And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the Bush, and said, Moses, Moses; and he said, here am I. And he said, draw not nigh hither, put of thy Shoes from off thy Feet, for the Place whereon thou standest is holy Ground. Moreover he said, I am the God of thy Fathers, the God of Abraham, &c.

THIS was obscurly represented unto the Church of old, Exo. 3. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. And the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a Flame of Fire out of the midst of a Bush, and he looked, and behold the Bush burned with Fire, and the Bush was not consumed. And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great Sight, why the Bush is not burnt. And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the Bush, and said, Moses, Moses; and he said, here am I. And he said, draw not nigh hither, put of thy Shooes from off thy Feet, for the Place whereon thou standest is holy Ground. Moreover he said, I am the God of thy Fathers, the God of Abraham, &c.

THIS Fire was a Type or Declaration of the Presence of God in the Person of the Son. For with respect unto the Father he is called an Angel, the Angel of the Covenant; but absolutely in himself, he was Jehovah, the God of Abraham, &c. And of his Presence the Fire was a proper Representation. For in his Nature, he is as a Consuming Fire; and his present Work was the Delivery of the Church out of a Fiery Trial. This Fire placed it self in a Bush, where it burned, but the Bush was not consumed. And although the Continuance of the Fire in the ⟨p. 42⟩