habitually in such a manner as to make others glorify him!

Now to him that is light-to the bright and morning star-and to the Spirit of illumination be immortal praises AMEN.

SERMON VIII.

THE SMITTEN ROCK.

Exodus xvii. 6.

Behold I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb : and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it that the people may drink.

BY SOLOMON FRÆLIGH, D.D.

Professor of Divinity, and pastor of a Dutch Reformed congregation in Hackensack and Scraalenberg.

NEW-JERSEY PREACHER.

SERMON VIII.

Exodus xvii. 6.-Behold I will stand before thee there, upon the rock in Horeb : and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink.

THE journey of the children of Israel from Egypt to

Canaan, was a standing miracle, and evidently intended to represent the wonderful changes, and providential interpositions, incident to a life of faith and holiness. They were liberated from the most abject servitude that ever oppressed an unhappy people, and their joy seemed to preclude every apprehension of any future disaster. But behold their disappointment! They come to the waters of Marah, and borne down with extreme fatigue, and thirst, were delighted with the prospect of cooling draughts; but alas! the water was bitter! however their expectation shall not be defeated; a species of wood is provided, which thrown into it corrects its taste, and renders it palatable. The traveller to the heavenly Canaan does not proceed far, when he meets with the bitter waters of affliction, both internal and external, which nothing but the wood of our Saviour's cross can sweeten. Their next grievance, and which produced seditious murmurings, was want of food. The clouds drop manna, and the eastern breezes waft multitudes of quails into their camp. The christian sojourner in this strange land, becomes subject to hunger, which nothing can allay but the bread that cometh down from heaven, justly and emphatically denominated the hidden VOL. I.

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manna.

The next afflictive occurrence, is again want of water to extinguish their thirst, at Rephidim. They chode with Moses ;-"Wherefore," said they, "is this, that thou hast brought us up out of the land of Egypt to kill us and our cattle with thirst." Upon his crying unto the Lord, he was commanded to take with him the elders of Israel, and his rod, and repair to a certain rock in Horeb, and the Lord promises as in the text, "Behold I will stand before thee there, and thou shalt smite the rock; and there shalt come water out of it, that the people may drink." The weary traveller in his journey to the celestial world meets with his Rephidims, a dry and thirsty land where no water is, and where he pants for the refreshing streams of quickening grace, as the hunted hart for the water brooks. But behold his rock in Horeb is smitten; waters flow out of it, that the people may drink. That I may treat the subject with some order, I shall show,

I. That the Saviour Jesus Christ was typified by this rock in Horeb.

II. In what manner he was smitten, and,

III. For what purpose,

I. Jesus, the Redeemer of Israel, the Mediator of the new covenant is typified and prefigured by this rock in Horeb; as a proof I may quote inspired authority; see 1 Cor. x. 4, for they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ." To select a rock as emblematical of the Saviour, is an evidence of divine wisdom, as nothing can be more expressive of his mediatorial qualities. As a rock he is the strength and support of his people. In this point of view he ap plies the figure to himself; see Matt. xvi. 18, "Upon this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell