Exodus 9

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. IX.—God can execute the most numerous, diversified, and extensive, judgments upon such as hate him. He can easily make what we have idolized, whether our cattle, our bodies, or fields, the immediate objects of our punishment, and how severe is the punishment which he hath laid up in store for such as have been most instrumental in deceiving and hardening others! Satan can delude men into sin, but he cannot preserve them from suffering. And in tremendous sovereignty God fixes on the objects of his wrath, and renders their 9 prosperity the means of their ruin, to the praise of the glory of his justice. Though men may sport with his judgments, the indignation of the Almighty will most certainly overtake them, and fall most heavily on those who remain under the power of a proud hell-hardened heart; which neither warnings, however express, nor judgments, however terrible, can impress. But happy are they who have God for their friend and refuge! Effectual fervent prayer to him is the most powerful antidote against trouble, and under it the surest help and consolation 6