Robert Traill (The Throne of Grace), Works 1:133:
Moses was a man that obtained singular mercy from the Lord. It appeared in this, that he esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt, Heb. 11:26. He had excellent balances and true weights. He put in the one scale, Egypt’s honours, treasures, and pleasures (and how weighty are such things in the worldling’s balances!); and in the other, the reproach of Christ, and affliction with the people of God. His judgment on this weighing, is, That this reproach, because of Christ’s concern in it, and this affliction, because it is of and with God’s people, is better than all the other things. The true test of men’s spirits is justly taken from their settled inward apprehension of the worth and value of spiritual saving mercy, above all outward mercy.
Moses was a man that obtained singular mercy from the Lord. It appeared in this, that he esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt, Heb. 11:26. He had excellent balances and true weights. He put in the one scale, Egypt’s honours, treasures, and pleasures (and how weighty are such things in the worldling’s balances!); and in the other, the reproach of Christ, and affliction with the people of God. His judgment on this weighing, is, That this reproach, because of Christ’s concern in it, and this affliction, because it is of and with God’s people, is better than all the other things. The true test of men’s spirits is justly taken from their settled inward apprehension of the worth and value of spiritual saving mercy, above all outward mercy.
