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God, so near were they to him (Ps 148:14), so much employed in his immediate service, and such intimate communion they had with him. When they were first made a free people it was that they might sacrifice to the Lord their God, as priests; they were under God's immediate government, and the tendency of the laws given them was to distinguish them from others, and engage them for God as a holy nation. Thus all believers are, through Christ, made to our God kings and priests (Re 1:6), a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, 1Pe 2:9.
7 And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid
before their faces all these words which the Lord commanded him.
Israel's acceptance of this charter, and consent to the conditions of it.
1. Moses faithfully delivered God's message to them (Ex 19:7): He laid before their faces all those words; he not only explained to them what God had given him in charge, but he put it to their choice whether they would accept these promises upon these terms or no. His laying it to their faces denotes his laying it to their consciences.
2. They readily agreed to the covenant proposed. They would oblige themselves to obey the voice of God, and take it as a great favour to be made a kingdom of priests to him. They answered together as one man, nemine contradicente--without a dissentient voice (Ex 19:8): All that the Lord hath spoken we will do. Thus they strike the bargain, accepting the Lord to be to them a God, and giving up themselves to be to him a people. O that there had been such a heart in them!
3. Moses, as a mediator, returned the words of the people to God, Ex 19:8. Thus Christ, the Mediator between us and God, as a prophet reveals God's will to us, his precepts and