Serm. III. Motes's Choice of (Ogled Piety, &c. 2.1 And as the tnoft,clear and exprefs Promife of the Meílias was Inade7toAAr'aham ; fo the moft exprefs and lively Type of the Meflias that we meet, with in all the, the old Teftament, was Abraham's offering up his Bon. Andas -i t. Hierom tells us (from an ancient and confiant Tradition of the yews) ,the Mountain in 1Vloriah' where Abraham was commanded to. facrifice Ifeiac, was Mount calvary, whereour Lord alfo was crucified and offered up, that by this one faczifee of himfelfonce . offered, he might perfect for ever them that are fantlified, and obtain eternal re- demptienfor us. Now to ltim thatfitteth tapon the throne, and to the Lamb that wasfain; to Cdor1 gnon our ,Father, and to our Lord jef l.s ChrJl, the firffbegotten from the ¿ergs; t4 the Prince if the Kings 'of the Earth ; to him that loved us, and wajbed rw from ow, fins in .his, own blood; to him b£ Glory andHonour, Th&nkfgiving and Ì'awer, now and fbr, ever, Amen. M O N III. ."wh idre- Hall x687. before cbe Mofes's Choice ofafllic`ied Piety,-'rather than a K in,dóm. Ann, HEr. ii. 24, 25. By Faith Mofes when he was come to years, refufed to be called the Sort of Pharaoh's daughter g chu/lng Mather to Pifer affliaion with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleafures of fin for a feafon. HE; Text fers before us a great Pattern of felf- denial ; for our better underftandingwhereof, I will give a brief account ofthe Hiftory of Mofes, to which our Apoftle in this paffage doch refer. When Mofes was born, his Parents.(for fear of the cruel Law which Pharaoh had made, That all the male Children of the Hebrews, fo foon as they were born, fhouldbe put to death) after they had hid him three Months,- did at Taft expofe him in an Ark of Bulrufhes, upon the River Nile, and committed him to the Provi- dence of God, whom they de£pair'd to conceal any longer by their own Care. Pharaoh's Daughter, comingby the River fide, efpied him, and had compafúon on him ; and guefling him to be one of the Hebrew Children, called for an Hebrew Nurfe, to take Care of him, who, as the Providence of God had ordered it, prov- ed to be the Child's own Mother. As he grew up, Pharaoh's Daughter took care of his Education in all PrincelyQualities, and adopted him for her Son ; and Pharaoh (as ,7ofephw' tells us) being without Son, defigned bins Heir of his Kingdom. Mofes refufed this great Offer. But why didhe refufe it, when it feem'd to be prefented to him by the Providence of God, and was brought about in fo ftrange a manner ; and when by this Means he might probably have had it in his Power tohave eafed the Ifraelites oftheir cruel Bondage, and perhaps have had the Oppor- tunity of reducing that great Kingdom from the Worfhip of Idols to the true God ? Why would he refufe a Kingdom which was offered tohim with fo fair an Oppor- tunity of doing fo much good ? That which Items to have prevailed with Mofes, was this, That he could not accept the Offer without forfaking God, and renouncing his Religion ; for confidering how ftraugely the Egyptians were addicted to. Idolatry, he could never hope to be
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