A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects

when they saw the waters congealed, they had not the least suspicion, but that the division of the Sea was made in their favour, till the Chariot wheels were taken off, and the waters ready to roll upon them, Exod. 14.23, 25.

when they saw the waters congealed, they had not the least suspicion, but that the division of the Sea was made in their favour, till the Chariot wheels were taken off, and the waters ready to roul upon them, Exod. 14.23, 25.

2. As something on the part of the Churches Enemies forwards the deliverance, so there is some regard God hath to the Churches straits. Cum duplicantur lateres, venit Moses. 'Tis Gods usual method to let the Church be in great distress before he commands deliverance. The distress of the Church was great in the concern of this day, though it was not sensible, the deliverance being known near as soon as the danger.

The Church is to be in the depths of the Sea before she be fully delivered, Psa. 68.22. The Jews were to pass through the Sea with affliction before the pride of Assyria should be brought down, and the Sceptre of Egypt depart away; after that, he would strengthen them in the Lord, and they should walk up and down in his name, Zach. 10.11, 12. The sharpest pangs precede deliverance; it was so when Christ came in the flesh; it will be so at every new rising of Christ in his spirit; when things were at a low ebb, when the Sun sat in the greatest darkness of Error, Idolatry and profaneness, when the Jews, the only spot of ground God had, was as a wilderness almost barren of any grace, when the great predictions of the Prophets were unminded, and less understood, when Urim and Thummim had ceased, and the Spirit of Prophesy was shut up, then Christ comes in the fullness of time to work an universal relief for mankind. When the day of vengeance is in the heart of the Redeemer, he shall look and find none to help, he shall wonder to find none to uphold, therefore his own arm shall bring Salvation,