A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects

The defeat is described, 1. By the Author: Thou didst blow. 2. Instrument: Thy wind; the Sea, wind and the Sea conspire together against the Enemies, when God orders them. 3. Victory, or success of this order; The Sea covered them; they sank like Lead in the mighty waters— General Observations.

1. The greatest Idolaters are the fiercest Enemies against the Church of God. ¹'Tis the Egyptian is the Enemy. No Nation had more and more sordid Idols. The Persians adored the Sun, the greatest Benefactor to the world, in the rank of inanimate creatures; other Nations several Stars, but none did so much abuse the reason of man, as that accursed Nation. Onions, Garlic, Cats, Oxen, Flies and Crocodiles; those dung-hill creatures were their ⟨p. 44⟩adored Deities. And how much better is the Adoration of the swaddling-clouts of our Saviour, or the straw which was in the Manger, or the Tail of the Ass he rode upon, and so many splinters of the Cross; which if put together would make a Colossus? For this among the rest may the Church professing such Worship be called spiritual Egypt.

1. The greatest Idolaters are the fiercest Enemies against the Church of God. ¹'Tis the Aegyptian is the Enemy. No Nation had more and more sordid Idols. The Persians adored the Sun, the greatest Benefactor to the world, in the rank of inanimate creatures; other Nations several Stars, but none did so much abuse the reason of man, as that accursed Nation. Onions, Garlick, Cats, Oxen, Flies and Crocodiles; those dung-hill creatures were their ⟨p. 44⟩adored Deities. And how much better is the Adoration of the swadling-clouts of our Saviour, or the straw which was in the Manger, or the Tail of the Ass he rode upon, and so many splinters of the Cross; which if put together would make a Colossus? For this among the rest may the Church professing such Worship be called spiritual Aegypt.