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upon a stubborn Egypt without eifect, there is a 

 Red Sea yet in reserve, that at last swallows all : 

 and, if our present afflictions reform us not, that 

 we sin no more, take we heed, lest yet a worse 

 thing befal us. Remember, that when the touch 

 of God's little finger did not terrify us, he soon 

 made us feel the stroke of his heavy hand. If the 

 more benign and benedict medicines will not work, 

 nor stir us at all, he can prepare us a rougher re- 

 ceipt, or a stronger dose; retrieve and bring back 

 his former judgments in a sharper degree, or 

 else send upon us new ones, which we never 

 dreamt of. 



The Devil of Rebellion and Disobedience, which 

 not long since possessed the nation, rent and tore 

 it till it foamed again, and pined away in lingering- 

 consumptions ; that cast it oft-times into the fire, 

 and oft-times into the water (calamities of all 

 sorts) to destroy it ; is now, through God's mercies, 

 cast out, and we seem to sit quiet and sober at 

 the feet of our deliverer, clothed, and in our right 

 minds again. But yet this ill spirit, this restless 

 fury (this unquiet and dreadful Alastor, the eldest 

 son of Nemesis, and heir apparent to all the ter- 

 rors and mischiefs of his mother) walks about 

 day and night, seeking rest, and finds none ; and 

 he saith, in his heart, I will return some time or 

 other to my house from whence I came out. O 

 let us take heed of provoking that God, who 

 alone chains up his fury, lest for our sins he per- 

 mit him to return once more with seven other 



