An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth chapters of…

Secondly, The way that God leads people in many times ¹may be a way of much difficulty; he said, he taught Ephraim to go, and led him in the way. If we enquire what that way is? it was the way through the wilderness, yea, before they came into the wilderness, before they came at the Sea, in Exod. 14. 9. The Egyptians pursued after them, ²(all the Horses and Chariots of Pharaoh, and his Horsemen, and his Army) and overtook them, encamping by the Sea, besides Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon. Pharaoh and all his host pursued them, they were in a very straight way, The Sea was before them, Pharaoh and all his Army was behind them, and they were encamping by the Sea, before Pi-hahiroth, at the mouth of those Mountains, that ⟨p. 30⟩the Mountains did compass them round about, and they were before Baal-zephon, that is, the god of watching, the ³Egyptians God that they made account was the God that did watch those that went out of their Country without any leave, they came before that God that was the God for their watching those that went out of their their Country, and to keep them from going out, and between the Mountains, and the Sea before them, and a great Army behind them, and yet God taught them to go; what a way doth God teach them to go in? And then when they go further they must go through the Sea, or no other way, God taught them to go through the Sea, and when they have gone through the Sea, Is all the evil over? No, they must come into the wast howling wilderness, and there be led along for forty years together, and yet God doth reckon up his guidance of them here in this way as a fruit of his love.

Secondly, The way that God leads people in many times ¹may be a way of much difficulty; he said, he taught Ephraim to go, and led him in the way. If we enquire what that way is? it was the way through the wilderness, yea, before they came into the wilderness, before they came at the Sea, in