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The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural…
The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural evidence the being of God ... : the second part, of Christianity, proving by evidence supernatural and natural, the certain truth of the Christian belief ... / by Richard Baxter ... ; also an appendix defending the soul's immortality against the Somatists or Epicureans and other pseudo-philosophers.
London: printed by R. White for Fran. Titon, 1667
Part 2 › Chapter 3: Of the CHRISTIAN RELIGION: and First, What it is.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Ten times did Moses with Aaron his Brother go to Pharaoh the King in vain, though each time they wrought public miracles to convince him, till at last when God had in a night destroyed all the first-born in the land of Egypt, Pharaoh did unwillingly let the Seed of Jacob (or Israel) go: But repenting quickly, he pursued after them with his Host, and overtook them just at the Red-sea, where God wrought a miracle, opening the Sea, which the Israelites past through on dry ground: but the King with his Host, who were hardened to pursue them, were all drowned by the return of the waters, when the Israelites were over. Then Moses led them on in the Wilderness towards the promised Land:1 but the great difficulties of the Wilderness tempted them to murmuring against him that had brought them thither, and to unbelief against God, as if he could not have provided for them: This provoked God to kill many thousands of them by Plagues and Serpents, and to delay them forty years in that Wilderness, before he gave them the Land of Promise: so that only two which came out of Egypt (Caleb and Joshua) did live to enter it. But to confute ⟨p. 210⟩[…] ⟨p. 211⟩[…] ⟨p. 210⟩[…] ⟨p. 211⟩[…] ⟨p. 212⟩their unbelief, God wrought many miracles for them in this Wilderness: He caused the Rocks to give them water: He fed them with Manna from above: Their shoes and clothes did not wear in forty years. In this Wilderness Moses received from God a Law, by which they were to be governed: In mount Sinai in flames of fire, with terrible thunder, God appeared so far to Moses, as to speak to him, and instruct him in all that he would have him do; He gave him the chief part of his Law in two Tables of Stone, containing Ten Commandments, engraven thereon by God himself, (or by Angelical ministration): The rest he instructed him in by word of voice. Moses was made their Captain, and Aaron their High Priest, and all the Forms of God's Worship settled, with abundance of Laws for Sacrifices and Ceremonies, to typify the Sacrifice and Reign of Christ: