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  • Author: Rev. Dr. Jonathan Bayley
  • Publisher: London: New Church Press Ltd.
  • Publication Date: 1867
  • Total Pages: 480

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From Egypt to Canaan

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FROM EGYPT TO CANAAN BEING THE DIVINE DESCRIPTION OF THE REGENERATE LIFE SHEWN BY ISRAEL IN EGYPT, THE JOURNEY IN THE WILDERNESS, AND THE CONQUEST OF CANAAN

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The divine history of Israel's freedom from Egyptian oppression, of their journeyings through the wilderness for forty years, and -their settlement in Canaan, is the inspired record of regeneration. Hence, the pages of the Word of God have an interest far above that of any human composition. They f6rn;.t the Book of books. In their delineations, every soul may see its state pictured, its struggles described. Their spirit speaks not of earthly interests, of temporal defeat or triumph, of the rise and decay of nations; but of the soul and its eternal concerns, of the movements of our own spiritual life, of those changes of state within, whose issues are to the good, unending peace; and to the evil, the wreck of every God-given faculty, perpetual blindness to truth, perpetual hatred to good, perpetual wrong, -and therefore, perpetual misery. "Ye must be born again" is the grand lesson of the Divine Volume. "The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul."- Ps, XIX. 7. "I will open my' mouth in a PARABLE, I will utter dark sayings of old;"-,Ps, LXXVIII. 2, said the Psalmist, when he was inspired to declare the wonders of the God of heaven shewn to the fathers of Israel at the Nile and in the desert; and to say, "Marvellous things did He in the sight of their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through, and Hemade the waters to stand as a heap. In the day-time also He led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire. He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths. He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers."-12-16. Viewed thus, as bearing in its bosom spiritual, universal and eternal lessons, the wondrous Book of God unfolds the evidences of its own divinity, of its inspiration from wisdom more than human. Who but God could reveal the soul's inner workings to itself, its sufferings in the bondage of sin, and its yearnings for freedom; could describe step hy step the obstacles, the temptations, the trials, the triumphs, through which it attains inner freedom and blessedness, confirmed by an experience which has been found true to the consciousness of the pilgrims for heaven in every age? Never book spake like this Book. "The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, but the word of our God shall stand for ever."-Isa. XI. 8.

Table of Contents

                            CONTENTS
                            
                                                              PAGE
Israel Suffering ............................................. 1
The Finding of Moses ......................................... 9
Moses at the Burning Bush .................................... 17
Moses' Rod turned into a Serpent ............................. 25
The Charge of Moses and Aaron to Pharaoh ..................... 33
The Name of Jehovah not known to the Fathers ................. 41
The Hardening of Pharaoh's Heart and the First Three
   Signs ..................................................... 49
Why the Magicians could not create Lice, and why the
   Stinging Flies did not reach Goshen ....................... 57
The Plagues of Murrain, of Boils, and of Hail ................ 65
The Plagues of Locusts, of Darkness, and the Destruction
   of the First-Born. ........................................ 73
The Passover ................................................. 81
The Land flowing with Milk and Honey ......................... 89
The Passage of the Red Sea ................................... 97
The Song of Moses, and the Bitter Waters of Marah ............ 105
The Quails and the Dew ....................................... 113
The Manna .................................................... 121
The Battle with Amalek ....................................... 129
Jethro's Advice to Moses to choose Rulers .................... 137
Obedience, our Duty and our Wisdom ........................... 145
The Ten Commandments ......................................... 153
Slavery amongst the Israelites ............................... 161
The Ox that gores a Man ...................................... 169
A Man smiting his Servant that he Die ........................ 177
Seething the Kid in the Mother's Milk ........................ 185
Driving out our Enemies little by little ..................... 193
The Tabernacle for the Sanctuary ............................. 201
The Ark of the Covenant ...................................... 209
The Mercy Seat ............................................... 217
The Table of Shewbread ....................................... 225
The Sacred Candlestick ....................................... 233
The Altar of Incense ......................................... 241
The Oil for the Lamps ........................................ 249
The Veil ..................................................... 257
The Hanging for the Door of the Tent ......................... 265
The Laver for Washing ........................................ 273
The Altar of Burnt-offering .................................. 281
The Curtains of the Tabernacle ............................... 289
The Court of the Tabernacle .................................. 297
The Holy Ointment ............................................ 305
The Holy Incense ............................................. 313
The Garments of Aaron ........................................ 321
The Breastplate of Precious Stones ........................... 329
The Atonement Money-the Ransom for Sin ....................... 337
The Worship of the Golden Calf ............................... 345
The Two first Tables of Commandments broken and 
   replaced .................................................. 353
The Lord seen from the Cleft of a Rock ....................... 361
The Lord's Name declared ..................................... 369
The Face of Moses shining and veiled ......................... 377
The Spies and their Report of the Promised Land .............. 385
The People bitten by Fiery Serpents, and healed by the
   Brazen Serpent ............................................ 393
Balaam and his Ass ........................................... 401
Moses appointing Joshua his Successor ........................ 409
The Death and Burial of Moses ................................ 417
Rahab and the Spies .......................................... 425
The Fall of Jericho .......................................... 433
Achan's Sin and Israel's Defeat .............................. 441
Ai taken ..................................................... 449
The Covenant with the Gibeonites ............................. 457
The Battle with the Five Kings, and the Sun and Moon
   standing still ............................................ 465
The Death of Joshua .......................................... 473

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