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peace for God shall fight for you; and now we can discover the great salvation of God which in this day gives cause to take courage, for God is the same. Thus we see Moses bringing the children of Israel on to the Red Sea, and then stretch his hand out over the sea, and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land and the waters was divided, and the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon dry ground, and the waters were as a wall unto them on the right hand and on the left, and when they landed on the other shore Moses streched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea turned to its channel, when the morning appeared the Egyptians fled against it, and the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea, and the waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen and all the hosts of Pharaoh that came down into the sea, after that there remained not so much as one of them, thus God saved Israel that day and the Israelites saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore. This ought to give us great encouragement even to this day, for we may consider ourselves in like manner as the Israelites as they travelled in the wilderness, and found favor with God, we believe that we can do the same for Moses has travelled through them, the sea is a figure of our last end when the gospel shall reach the end of the world, and all the nations are warned, then God will close the door of mercy and when we come down to the sea of death, and then we shall have a dry road through and Christ himself shall be our light, then we shall land safe on the other shore, look back my soul and wonder to see the Egyptian sinners beg, find them out of Christ, for one sin unrepented of is sufficient to sink a man to hell, notice that my dear readers, for this subject is of great importance for it calls for that holy number of perfect men to represent the church of Christ, at different periods of time are to let us see the glory of God displayed in the heads of those ministers that he has given charge over his little flock, for he is the great shepherd and bishop of our souls salvation, now let us take encouragement and look forward for the promises for they are all sure, his eyes is as a flame of fire, too penetrating to behold; if we enter the comforter
