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3 -like, appearance in the view and esteem of those the God of this world has blinded. She is as e accounted of as a silly Bramble-Bush, that no man's regard, engages no man’s observation.

Moses in this Chapter, is about his worldly he kept the Flock of Jethro his father in law,  led his flock to the back of the desert: and,  thus employed, he is privileged with a very  appearance of God. This may teach us, that gence and activity in our worldly business is a commendable thing, and especially when gone a at with a view and regard to the glory and  of God; and that even the meanest office in  is by no means degrading or dishonouring to the ts of God; yea many times such as are  to serve God in the meanest offices, are  with noble manifestations from God, and  raised to honourable stations. This when keeping a flock of sheep has an  revelation from Heaven and is called to the  of a general and deliverer to the enslaved tribes  Israel in Egypt. Thus, again, David was taken following the ewes great with young, to sway  sceptre of Israel And thus Amos, who was of  herdmen of Tekoa was taken from the office,  declare the will of God to the People of Israel, to denounce his judgments against the king’s court  Samaria

Moses, after he had sojourned, forty years in the of Midian and during the that time, employed  in tending the flocks of his father in law is  with a vision. The angel of the Lord appeared him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: d he looked and, behold the bush burned with  and the bush was not consumed. In which this holy man gets a clear emblematical  of the Church of Christ in Egypt, and of  wilderness condition and situation of the Church  Christ unto the end of Time.