Secondly, in case that all these three particular pro∣mises should not be enough to steele the hearts of the Jewes to set upon this hard work, and to hold out in it; the Lord in the next place, doth proclaime all his great Attributes before them to encourage them in their way. Thus when he was to put Moses upon that great designe of bringing the people of Israel out of Egypt, Hee pro∣claimeth His Name before him, Exod. 3.14. I am that I am, thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, [I am] hath sent me unto you. The like in Exod. 6. vers. 3. where he telleth him of his great Name Jehovah, by which saith he, I was not known unto Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. This head of the Chapter runneth onward from the end of vers. 4. to vers. 14. It is one continued, loud, large pro∣clamation of the Lords excellencies and prerogatives royall, thereby to support their spirits against all diffi∣culties. The summe of the whole incouragement may be thus rendred; I can (saith God) and I will muster and command all things from the rising of the Sunne, and from the West, vers. 5. & 6. both light and darknesse, vers. 7. the heavens, the skies, the earth, vers. 8. All these will I mu∣ster and draw forth for this work, rather than it shall die in the birth: And as for that Potsheard, that Clay, Baby∣lon, it shall herein know my love unto Israel, vers. 9. and shall feele what it is for a creature to strive with its Crea∣tor, or for a birth to tax those parents that begat and bare it, vers. 10. This part reacheth to vers. 14. The remainder, which is the third piece of the Chapter, is a kind of twisted promise, partly respecting the delive∣rance from Babylon in the letter; and partly (according to the usual manner of the Prophets) interweaning some passages concerning Christ and spirituall redemption, in the mystery.0
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