The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

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Title: The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.
Author: Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.
Publication: London :: Printed by W. R. for Robert Scot, Thomas Basset, Richard Chiswell,; 1684.
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SECTION VII.

The two first miracles, Exod. 4.

1. THE turning of Moses rod into a Serpent, did utterly disclaim any power of the Devil in these wonders which he was to work, which power only the Magicians wrought by: For as a Serpent was the fittest Embleme of the Devil, as Gen. 3. and Revel. 12. 9. 80 was it a sign that Moses did not these Miracles by the power of the Devil, but had a power over and beyond him, when he can thus deal with the Serpent at his pleasure, as to make his rod a Serpent, and the Serpent a rod as he seeth good.

Yet it is worth the observing, that he is commanded to take it by the tail, vers. 9. for to meddle with the Serpents head belonged not to Moses, but to Christ that spake to him out of the bush, as Gen. 3. 15.

His rod at Sinai is said to be turned into Nahash, a common and ordinary Snake or Ser∣pent; but when he casts it down before Pharaoh, it becometh Tannin, Chap. 7. 10. a Ser∣pent of the greatest dimensions, be like a Crocodile, which beast the Egyptians adored, and to whose jaws they had exposed the poor Hebrew Infants in the River.

2. His Leprous hand disclaimed also any power of Moses his own in these wonders which he wrought, for it was not possible that so great things should be done by that im∣pure and unclean hand, but by a greater.

3. Both of these Miracles which were the first that were done by any Prophet in the world, did more specially refer to the Miracles of that great Prophet that should come into the world, by whose power these Miracles were done by Moses at this time. For as it belonged to him only to cast out the power of the Devil out of the soul, and to heal the soul of the leprosie of sin, so was it reserved for him first, to cast out the Devil out of the body, and to heal the leprosie of the body. For though the Prophets from Mo∣ses to Christ had the gift of doing Miracles, and performed wonders many of them in an high degree, yet could never any of them or any other cast out a Devil or heal a Leper till the great Prophet came. Elisha indeed directed Naaman how he should be healed, but he neither touched him nor came out to him at all, that he might shew that it was not his power, but such cures were reserved for Christ to come.