3 rS Chap. 39. AnExpofation oponthe Bool¿pf Jo s. Verf. ; Or knave thou the timewhen they Mng forth ? Cis the fame in effea that was fpokea before,therefore I (han not flay upon ir. From the whole verle cbferve The Lordonly cangive timely fuccour toall creatures. The realen is implyed in the Text,13ecaufe he only knows the certain time of their a %tremity. None can give exaeì and timely help to the neceffity of another, but he that knows the exac} time of his extremity. The Lord can and will givedeliverance to his people, in the very nick of time, when themonths of their forrovv and burdens are fulfilled, for he knows the number of them. The childrenof Ifrael had long and fore bondage in E- gypt, but no longer than the months which were appointed; for as loon as they were fulfilled, their bondage was ended, and they delivered ; mark how the Spirit of God records it to a day (Exod. 12.41.) And it came topafsat the end of the fourhun- dredand thirty years, even thefelf-fame day it came topars, that all the hills of the Lord went out from the Land of Egypt. Nor doth the facred Record leave it thus, but adds (verf. 42.) Iris a night to be much obferved ; or (according to the letter of the Hebrew) A night of cbfervations unto the Lord, for bringing them outfrom the Land of Egypt :This is thatnight of the Lord, to be ob- ferved ofall the children ofIfrael int heirgeneration,.. Bu fes laid in the former verle, It was thefilf-fame day. Why loth he fay here, It is a night, d..c ? And this is that night of the Lord, (jc, The reafon.I conceive was this ; The word day may be taken largely, for a natural day confifling of twenty four hours ; now bc- caufe the four hundred and thirty years were fulfilled and ended at the beginning of that day, ( theJewiti account of dayes be- ginning atevening)therefore their deliverance began then,anddid not flay till the morning.Thus exaet is the Lord, keeping his word not only toa day,but to a piece,yea,to the very hour of aday.And as the Lord gave that people deliverance jufh when those years were fulfilled, according to thatancient prophecy ; fo doubrlefs when the forty two months, or (which is the fame) the thoufand two hundred and threefcore dayes for his witneffes prophecying in lack-cloth (Rev. a a. z, 3.) (hall be fulfilled, then they allo !hall
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