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them a:t the
^"^A^^y?
Red Sea, when Ph^r^h
and his Holt were purfuing them with ragt and
malice, to have deftroyed their Bodies by the
Svvord, becaufe they were leaving hisConotrev,
and he (hould Joofe fo many StAjeas and Vaflals,
whom he* had enOaved to their great affittion,
and his- great profit. Now God havinff
preferyed them in that miraculous manner, and
fo eminently ilgnalized his' power in the deftrudlion
of their Enemies, they therefore brake
torth into this great extafie of (inging his Praifes,
having the great Prophet of the Old Teftamenc
to direct them in it*
So that it doth not at all appear, that it
was performed as a Church-aa, but upon an outward
and civil confideration : Befides, how he
will do to prove they were then formed into a
^""^^h-ftate, when all the Laws for the efla-
Wiihing the Jewijh Oeconomy were given after that
time, I cann