“The majesty and excellency of God” by Stephen Charnock

Who is like You, O LORD,
among the gods?
Who is like You,
glorious in holiness,
fearful in praises,
doing wonders?

(Exodus 15:11)

Exodus 15:11 is one of the loftiest descriptions of the majesty and excellency of God in the whole Scripture.

It is a part of Moses’s ἐπινίκιον, or triumphant song, after a great, a real, and a typical victory, in the womb of which all the deliverances of the church were couched.

It is the first song upon holy record, and it consists of gratulatory and prophetic material.

It casts a look backward to what God did for them in their deliverance from Egypt and a look forward to what God shall do for the church in future ages.

That deliverance was but a rough draft of something more excellent to be wrought toward the closing up of the world, when his plagues shall be poured out upon the anti-Christian powers, which should revive the same song of Moses in the church, as fitted so many ages before for such a scene of affairs (Rev. 15:2–3).”

–Stephen Charnock, The Existence and Attributes of God, ed. Mark Jones, Updated and Unabridged, vol. 2 (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2022), 2: 1043.

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