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

But though the holy Ghost had an eye to this, yet that that is firstly and literally meant, it is, the deliverance from oppression, I delivered them from the oppressions that were upon them. From whence then the Observation is this,

But though the holy Ghost had an eye to this, yet that that is firstly and litterally meant, it is, the deliverance from oppression, I delivered them from the oppressions that were upon them. From whence then the Observation is this,

First, That deliverance from oppression is a great mercy. Oh! ¹what ease is there in it! Oh! how doth it cool our necks! In Levit. 26. 13. I have broken the bonds of your yoke, and made you go upright. There was a time that we had heavy yokes upon us, that made us stoop, we stooped under them, but through Gods mercy these bonds of our yokes are in a good measure broken, that we may go upright, and woe to us, if we go not upright now. In Ezek. 34. 27. They shall know that I am the Lord, when I have broken ²the bonds of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them. My brethren, If ever God manifested himself to be the Lord towards us, it hath been in breaking the bonds of our yoke, of the yokes that were upon us, and in delivering us from those who served themselves of us; we were under a proud and cruel generation of men, that minded themselves, and cared not what became of the Consciences, of the Estates, Liberties, and Lives of men, so be it that they could have their humours, their lusts served upon us; and what means could we see for the deliverance of our selves from their yoke? But the Lord hath appeared; and then saith the text, They shall know that I am the Lord; If we ³