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his condescending grace, which gives us such repeated assurances for our satisfaction.
7 and I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God:
and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
8 And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did
swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for a heritage: I am the Lord.
From his gracious intentions in all these, which were great, and worthy of him, Ex 6:7.
(1.) He intended their happiness: I will take you to me for a people, a peculiar people, and I will be to you a God; more than this we need not ask, we cannot have, to make us happy.
(2.) He intended his own glory: You shall know that I am the Lord. God will attain his own ends, nor shall we come short of them if we make them our chief end too. Now, one would think, these good words, and comfortable words, should have revived the drooping Israelites, and cause them to forget their misery; but, on the contrary, their miseries made them regardless of God's promises (Ex 6:9): They harkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit. That is,
[1.] They were so taken up with their troubles that they did not heed him.
[2.] They were so cast down with their late disappointment that they did not believe him.
[3.] They had such a dread of Pharaoh's power and wrath that they durst not themselves move in the least towards their deliverance. Note, First, Disconsolate spirits often put from