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2. That men cannot escape the alarms of God's wrath, because they cannot go out of the hearing of their own consciences: he that made their hearts can make his sword to approach them.
3. That God warns before he wounds; for he is long-suffering, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
16 And thou shalt say unto him, The Lord God of the Hebrews hath
sent me unto thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness: and, behold, hitherto thou wouldest not hear.
17 Thus saith the Lord, In this thou shalt know that I am the Lord
: behold, I will smite with the rod that is in mine hand upon the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.
18 And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink;
and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink of the water of the river.
19 And the Lord spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod,
and stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone.
Aaron (who carried the mace) is directed to summon the plague by smiting the river with his rod, Ex 7:19, 20. It was done in the sight of Pharaoh and his attendants; for God's true miracles were not performed, as Satan's lying wonders were, by those that peeped and muttered: truth seeks no corners. An amazing change was immediately wrought; all the waters, not only in the rivers but in all their ponds, were turned into blood.
1. See here the almighty power of God. Every creature is that to us which he makes it to be, water or blood.
2. See the mutability of all things under the sun, and what changes we may meet with in them. That which is water to-