A65285:1759
A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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Of the Ten Commandments.
Exod. 20.2. The Land of Egypt, &c.
THE Second part of Preface. Who have brought thee out of the Land of Egypt, out of the House of Bondage. Egypt and the House of Bondage are the same, only they are represented to us under a different Expression or Notion, I begin with the First Expression, Who have brought thee out of the Land of Egypt.
Quest. Why doth the Lord mention this Deliverance of Israel out of the Land of Egypt?
Resp. 1. Because of the strangeness of the Deliverance. God delivered his People Israel by strange Signs and Wonders, by sending Plague after Plague upon Pharaoh, blasting the Fruits of the Earth, killing all the First-born in Egypt, Exod. 12.29. And when Israel marched out of Egypt, God made the Waters of the Sea to part, and become a Wall to his People, while they went on Dry Ground; and as he made the Sea a Causey to Israel, so a Grave to Pharaoh and his Chariots. Well might the Lord mention his bringing them out of the Land of Egypt, because of the strangeness of the Deliverance; God wrought Miracle upon Miracle, for their Deliverance.