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brought you off, too, into a more prosperous con- 

 dition. 



And may not God bespeak us, too, the people of 

 England, in the same language ? When we were 

 enslaved at home, (and so in worse than Egyptian 

 slavery,) and our Pharaoh, and his proud task- 

 masters, made even our lives bitter to us in hard 

 bondage, in mortar, and in brick, to build up their 

 own proud Babels ; when they had now killed, 

 and also taken possession, and divided the spoil, 

 . and said, in a frolic of their lusty pride. We have 

 devoured them, and there is no hope for them in 

 their God : then, on the sudden, as an eagle stirreth 

 up her nest, and fluttereth over her young, and 

 spreadeth abroad her wings, (as Moses* speaks in 

 his admirable song,) thus awakening, and exciting 

 their natural activity, and emboldening them to 

 use it to the utmost ; and when that will not do, 

 taketh them up herself, and beareth them away 

 upon her own wings : so here, the Lord alone did 

 lead us, and there was no other with him ; that is 

 Moses's own reddition : when our own pinion 

 proved too weak, and all our faint flutterings to 

 no purpose ; then, by a miracle of wisdom, power, 

 and goodness, he took us up to that gallant and 

 wonderful flight, even up to a higher pitch, than 

 we durst look, and made us to ride upon the high 

 places of the earth, and set our nest again amongst 

 the stars. 



* Deut. xxxii, 12. 



