A history of the work of redemption. Containing the outlines of a body of…

I PROCEED to the fourth period, which reaches from Moses to David.—I would show how the work of redemption was carried on through this also.

I. The first thing that offers itself to be considered it the redemption of the church of God out of Egypt; the most remarkable of all the Old Testament •edemptions of the church of God, and that which was the greatest pledge and forerunner of the redemption of Christ, of any; and is much more insisted on in scripture than any other of those redemptions. Indeed it was the greatest type of Christ's redemption of any providential event whatsoever. This redemption was by Jesus Christ, as is evident from this, that it was •rought by him that appeared to Moses in the bush; for that was the person that sent Moses to redeem that people. But that was Christ, as is evident, because he is called the angel of the Lord, Exod. iii.2.3. The bush represented the human nature of Christ, that is called the branch. This bush grew on mount Sinai or Horeb, which is a word that signifies a dry place, as the human nature of Christ was a root out of a dry ground. The bush burning with fire, represented the sufferings of Christ, in the fire of God's wrath. It burned, and was not consumed; so Christ, though he suffered extremely, yet perished not; but overcame at lai•, and rose from his sufferings. Because this great mystery of thei• carnation and sufferings of Christ was here represented, therefore, Moses says, "I will turn aside, and behold this great sight." A great sight he might well call it, when there was represented God manifest in the f•esh, and suffering a dreadful death, and rising from the dead.

I. The first thing that offers itself to be considered it the redemption of the church of God out of Egypt; the most remarkable of all the Old Testament •edemptions of the church of God, and that which was the greatest pledge and forerunner of the redemption of Christ, of any; and is much more insisted on in scripture than any other of those redemptions. Indeed it was the greatest type of Christ's redemption of any providential event whatsoever. This redmption was by Jesus Christ, as is evident from this, that it was rought by him that appeared to Moses in the bush; for that was the person that sent Moses to redeem that people. But that was Christ, as is evident, because he is called the angel of the Lord,