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This Understanding and Policy is the Light of this Kingdom, as true Wisdom is the Light of the spiritual Jerusalem. And therefore when this Light fails, then may the Kingdom of this spiritual Egypt be said to be full of Darkness. God henceforward will defend his People from these mystical Egyptians, as he defended Israel of old from Pharaoh and his Host, when pursuing after them, by placing a Cloud and Darkness in their Way, and so not suffering them to come nigh. So he will protect his Church from the Men of that City that is spiritually called Sodom, as Lot's House, wherein were the Angels, was defended from the Men of Sodom, by their being smitten with Darkness or Blindness, so that they weared themselves to find the Door; And as God defended the City in which was Elisha the Prophet and Witness of the Lord, from the Syrians, when they compassed it about with Horses and Chariots and a great Host to apprehend him, by smiting them with Blindness. The Scripture teaches us, that God is wont in this Way to defend his Church and People from their crafty and powerful Enemies; Job. v.11, &c. To set up high those that be low, that those which mourn may be exalted to Safety: He disappointeth the Devices of the Crafty, so that their Hands cannot perform their Enterprise: He taketh the Wise in their own Craftiness, and the Counsel of the Froward is carried Headlong: They meet with Darkness in the Day-time, and grope in the Noon day as in the Night; but he saveth the poor from the Sword, from their Month, and from the Hand of the Mighty. Psal. xxxv.4, 6. Let them be confounded and put to Shame, that seek after my ⟨p. 111⟩Soul; let them be turned back, and brought to Confusion, that devise my Hurt—Let their Way be dark and slippery.

This Understanding and Policy is the Light of this Kingdom, as true Wisdom is the Light of the spiritual Ierusalem. And therefore when this Light fails, then may the Kingdom of this spiritual Egypt be said to be full of Darkness. God henceforward will defend his People from these mystical Egyptians, as he defended Israel of old from Pharaoh and his Host, when pursuing after them, by placing a Cloud and Darkness in their Way, and so not suffering them to come nigh. So he will protect his Church from the Men of that City that is spiritually called Sodom, as Lot's House, wherein were the Angels, was defended from the Men of Sodom, by their being smitten with Darkness or Blindness, so that they weared themselves to find the Door; And as God defended the City in which was Elisha the Prophet and Witness of the Lord, from the Syrians, when they compassed it about with Horses and Chariots and a great Host to apprehend him, by smiting them with Blindness. The Scripture teaches us, that God is wont in this Way to defend his Church and People from their crafty and powerful Enemies;