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and then he is presented to the Lord.

3. When he was yet under one year old, as some; or about two, as others, he fled into Egypt. As there was no room for him in Bethlehem, so now there is no room for him in all Judea; no sooner he came to his own, but he must fly from them; what a wonder is this? Could not Christ have quit himself from Herod a thousand ways? what could an Arm of flesh have done against the God of Spirits? had Jesus been of the spirit of some of his Disciples, he might have commanded fire from Heaven on those that should have come to have apprehended him; but hereby he taught us to bear the yoke even in our youth; thus would he suffer, that he might sanctify to us our early afflictions, he flies into Egypt, the slaughter-house of Gods People, the sink of the world, the furnace of Israel's ancient afflictions: what a change is here; Israel, the first-born of God •lie out of Egypt into Judea; and Christ the first-born of all Creatures flies out of Judea into Egypt; ¹Eusebius reports that the Child Jesus arriving in Egypt, and being by design carried into a Temple, all the Statutes of the Idol-Gods fell down like Dagon at the presence of the Ark; and to this purpose he cites Isaiah's Prophecy; Behold, the Lord shall come into Egypt, and the Idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence. Now is Egypt become the Sanctuary, and Judea the inquisition-house of the Son of God; surely he that is every where the same,² knows how to make all places alike to his; he knows how to preserve Daniel in the Lions den; the three Children in a fiery furnace; Jonah in a Whales belly, and Christ in the midst of Egypt.

3. When he was yet under one year old, as some; or about two, as others, he fled into Egypt. As there was no room for him in Bethlehem, so now there is no room for him in all Judea; no sooner he came to his own, but he must fly from them; what a wonder is this? Could not Christ have quit himself from Herod a thousand wayes? what could an Arm of flesh have done against the God of Spirits? had Jesus been of the spirit of some of his Disciples, he might have commanded fire from Heaven on those that should have come to have apprehended him; but hereby he taught us to bear the yoke even in our youth; thus would he suffer, that he might sanctifie to us our early afflictions, he flies into Egypt, the slaughter-house of Gods People, the sink of the world, the surnace of Israel's ancient afflictions: what a change is here; Israel, the first-born of God lie out of Egypt into Judea; and Christ the first-born of all Creatures flies out of Judea into Egypt;