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A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects
A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects by Stephen Charnock.
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1683
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.
This Historical narration is to have a more universal accomplishment; the deliverance from Egypt is promised to be fulfilled a second time, and God would act the same part over again, as also their deliverance from Ogg King of Bashan, after the ascension of Christ, Psa. 6.22. The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people from the depths of the Sea. This is after he had ascended, v. 18. when he came to wound the head of his Enemies, v. 21. So Isa. 11.15. The Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea, and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it, in the seven streams, and make men go over dry shod. Nilus with its seven streams was the glory of Egypt, and Rome with its seven hills is the glory of the Papacy, Rev. 17.9. So Zac. 10.10. I will bring them again out of the Land of Egypt, and they shall pass through the sea with Affliction, and the deeps of the river shall dry up. Pharaoh and his army cannot revive and stand up in their former ranks; but ⟨p. 43⟩there shall be deliverances with resemblances to that, when the Enemies shall be as arrogant and furious as Pharaoh, and the Church as dejected and straitened as Israel.
This Historical narration is to have a more universal accomplishment; the deliverance from Aegypt is promised to be fulfilled a second time, and God would act the same part over again, as also their deliverance from Ogg King of Bashan, after the ascension of Christ, Psa. 6.22. The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people from the depths of the Sea. This is after he had ascended, v. 18. when he came to wound the head of his Enemies, v. 21. So Isa. 11.15. The Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea, and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it, in the seven streams, and make men go over dry shod. Nilus with its seven streams was the glory of Aegypt, and Rome with its seven hills is the glory of the Papacy,