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Deliverance-obstruction
Deliverance-obstruction: or, The set-backs of reformation. Discovered in a sermon before the Right Honourable the House of Peers, in Parliament now assembled. Upon the monthly fast, March 25. 1646. / By Tho. Case, preacher in Milkstreet London, and one of the Assembly of Divines.
London: printed by Ruth Raworth for Luke Fawne, 1646
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In a word; look how many plagues past upon Pharaoh and the Egyptians, so many desperate encounters and non plus's Israels enlargement meets withal; so many hard pulls it cost, before they could get loose: And when they had got their shoes on their feet, and their staves in their hand, and their kneading-troughs upon their shoulders, and they well onward on their way, encouraging themselves now that the worst was past; behold, the hardest pull of all was behind; they find themselves (or ever they were aware) environed with death and destruction: If they look before them, there is a Red-sea; if behind them, lo, there is Pharaoh, with I know not how many thousands of Horse and Foas, like another Red-sea, roaring, and threatening to swallow them up; if on either hand, there is an unpassable wilderness; and now, say the people to Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, host thou brought us out to die in the wilderness? 1This was nothing else but a very Plot of Moses and Aaron, an ambushment laid on purpose to deliver Israel up at once to the Egyptians, that they might utterly destroy us: we can neither fight nor flee; die we must every mothers child.
In a word; look how many plagues past upon Pharaoh and the Egyptians, so many desperate encounters and non plus's Israels enlargement meets withal; so many hard pulls it cost, before they could get loose: And when they had got their shooes on their feet, and their staves in their hand, and their kneading-troughs upon their shoulders, and they well onward on their way, encouraging themselves now that the worst was past; behold, the hardest pull of all was behinde; they finde themselves (or ever they were aware) environed with death and destruction: If they look before them, there is a Red-sea; if behinde them, lo, there is Pharach, with I know not how many thousands of Horse and Foas, like another Red-sea, roaring, and threatning to swallow them up; if on either hand, there is an unpassable wildernesse; and now, say the people to Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, host thou brought us out to die in the wildernesse? 1This was nothing else but a very Plot of Moses and Aaron, an ambushment laid on purpose to deliver Israel up at once to the Egyptians, that they might utterly destroy us: we can neither fight nor flee; die we must every mothers childe.
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