Excerpt from The Southern States Hardened Until Ruined: A Sermon Preached in Salem on Fast Day, April 13th, 1865 Many find difficulties with the Scriptural record in respect to Pharaoh. It seems to them to teach, that God set about the direct hardening of his heart, so as to prevent him from relenting and treating the Jews as he was commanded. And when God said, that He had for this purpose raised him up, to show in him His power, and that His name might be declared through out all the earth, Exod. 9 16, it has seemed to them as if Pharaoh could not have taken a different course from the one which he pursued. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.