Exodus — Chapter 18

Your felues haue {een what I haue done to the £gyptians , how I haue carried you vpor the wings of eagles, and haue taken you vnto me. «, If therfore you wil heare my voice , and keep my coucnant, you ihal be (1) mv seculiar of al peoples: ror al the earth is myne. 8. And you thal be vnto ne (+) a Pricitlic Kingdome, ad a holie nation: thefe are che words that thou ihult fpeake to the chidren of ltracl.7, M oyles came : and calling together the nations otf the people , he declared aithe words which our Lord had commaided him.8. And al the people an- {wered together(a)Al things that our Lard hath {poken , we wildoe. And when Moy(es had reported the peoples words to our Lord, 9. our Lord faid to him ; Now prefently wil I come to thee in the darkeneffe ofacloud , thatthe people may heare me {peaking to thee , and may belieue thee for euer. Moyfes therfore (¢)told the peoples words to our Lord.10.Who faid to him:Goe to the people, and {anctifie them to day, andto morow , and letthem wath their girments, 1. And let them be readie againit the third day:for inthe third day the Lord wii defcendin the fight of althe people vponthe mount Sinai. 12. And thou thale ap poynt certaine limices to the people in circuit,and shalt fay to them: Be- Ware yealcend notinto the mount, & that you touch notthe ends ther- of: euerie one that toucheth the mount, dying {hal dye. 13, Hands thal Not touch him, buthe thal be {toned to death, or thal be ihot through with arrowes : whether it be beait , or man, itihal notliue, When the trumpet thal begin to found,then letthem afcend intothe mount. 1 4A nd Moyfes came downe from the mount to the people , and {anctifie them, And when they had wathed their garments 15. he faid to them: Be readie againit the third day, and come not neer your wiues. 16. An Le) \— now ‘rolown ‘which was the so. he law was igiuen in ‘mount Sinai, 'S.tievom, Ex PAL, ad Fabio lam, 5) God would ‘haue thetr free ,confenc , els it iWere nora perfodt coue- ‘Nant, Theedores 9.35 im Fxed, ¢) Inthis eo- ucnant God promifeth ‘particular louc;Prieftlic ‘function, : wherby they mighe better ferue him; and etfe@Qual grace and fan@itie. d) The people promife loyal- tie to Godtand to keep his commande- ments, e) So Angels & Saints offerf our prayers & other good workes to God , though he know al things hefore- hand, --- PAGE 214 --- ia The people }& alinfertour 'Clergie alfo, { jare to keepe itheir limits & to learneGeds jwil oftheir — Superiows. Agreement of old and new myfteries. és Moy 196 EX ODV S. Mount Sinai, “now the third day was come, and the morning appeared : and behold thunders began to be heard, and lightnings to Haih,and a verie thicke -cloud to couet the mount, & the noyfe of the trumpet founded excee- dingly:and the people, that was inthe campe , feared, 17. And when bs had brought them forth to meete with God trom the place of the campe, they ftood at the borome of the mount,18.And al the mount Sinat {moked : for becaufe“our Lord was defeended vpon it in fire,and the fmoke arefe from it as‘out of a fornace: and al the mount was ter- rible. 19. And the found of the trumpet grew lowder by litle and litle, and was. drawen out a length : Moy bs {fpake, and God anfwered him, 20, And our Lord defcended vpon the mount Sinat in the very top of the mount, and he called Moyfes into the top therof. Whichér when he was afcended., 21. he faid voto him: Goe downe, and charge the people , left perhaps they wil paffe their limits.to {ce the Lord , anda very sreat multitude of them perifh. 22. The Priefts alfo that come to- the Lord, let chem be fanctified , left he ftrike them. 23. And. Moyfes faid to our Lord : The common people can not afcend into the mount Sinai: for thou didft charge, and command, faying : Put limits about the mount, and fandtifie it. 24. To whom our Lord. faid : Goe, get thee downe , and thou fhalt come vp , and Aaron with thee: but (/) the Priefts and the people let them not paffe the limits nor afcend to the Lord , left perhaps he kilthem. 25. And Moyles went downe to the people, and told them al, ANNOTATION S&S