that there was a respite] This respite was but Gods Pause, for Pharaoh to make a good use of the precedent plague, and when Gods hand was taken off him (by withdrawment of his Judgement) he should by repentance have made himselfe capable of mercy. But this is the manner of such as are doomed to destruction, to take more heart to goe on in sinne, when they should take most heed, that by sinning againe, they provoke not God to punish them againe.