SECTION.. I. 40ß' Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God. Verse 7. And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, &c. Verse 13. And Moses said unto God, Behold when I comb unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me :unto you ; and they shall say unto me, What is his name ? What shall I say unto, them ? Verse It And God said unto Moses; I AM THAT I AM : And he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. Verse 15. And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, the Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, bath sent me unto you ; this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations." Chapter iv. 1. ''.` And Moses answered and said, But behold, they will say, The Lord hall, not appeared unto, thee." And in order toprove that the Lord or Jehovah had appeared unto him, " The Lord said unte ;him, Cast thy rod on the ground, &e. Verse 5. That they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham,: the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, bath ap- peared unto thee." And thus the sacred dialogue between God end Moses proceeds. This same history is briefly repeated by Stephen ; Acts vii. 30-36. Whoever reads this narrative, will plainly find, that this person who appeared toMoses, was both the angel of the Lord, and was God himself : For it is said, Moses.was afraid to look upon God. He is called an angel by the sacred writer at his first appearance, but he is also called in the succeeding parts of the narrative God the Lord, Jehovah, the Goct.of Abraham, &c, The sacred historian calls him so frequently, and he himself roundly and strongly calls himself so. He assumes the highest names and titles of the supreme God, I am that I am, &c. And that in the most solemn and majestic manner that it is possible God himselfcould do, if he designed never so plainly to declare his own personal presence. Now I would humbly propose these questions to every reader, Whether if be should put himself as it were in the place of Moses, he wouldnot have been fully convinced, and believed that the great and eternal God was the person actually immedi- ately present in the burningbush in an extraordinary manner ? Whether he could avoid believing that the personwho spake to bun was really the true and eternal God ? And though he might suppose that it was an angel that appeared there, whether such strong, express and solemn assumptions of the divine nature, would not lead him to believe that God and this angel, at least in that season, and for that purpose, were so far united as to be., come as it were one agent, one speaker, one complex person ? 0I,. vtt I
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