the Cloudis taken offthe rabernacle. Í 7 r what were all this, if there were notmore in it then the Let- ter, and what every man by his Rudy, and reafon,and lear- ning can finde out :? but without all queftion, there is that Myfery anddepth of rirdont and Iwowledge hid and covered iu all thefe things which none can find or know with all theirtamoft endeavours, unlcff we be anoynted with that holy anointingwhich teachethal things ; neither. can we ever know them, except they be given us front above, that fo thefe things may be fpoken out onely by that divine teaching in us. And for that Hiftory forwhich this Book is called Exo- dus, that we. are now upon , the Book of the goings forth,' without all queftion, and to be briefe, Satan in us, is that true Pharaoh, whichkeeps the true Ifrael inbondage,which is hereheld forth by that external Pharaoh :for what is that Pharaoh to us, except we find its our _elves all thofe things a&ed and done ? And Egypt there, to us, is no other thing but mans bondage, andmiferable flavery under the Prince of darkne/l, and fhewethwhat cruelty is exercifed upon the truieÿ childrenofIfrael, andwhat mighty fgnes and wonders the Lord is faine towork before the foul can be brought from under this bondage; andwithout queftion, he that hath not found it fo in himfelf, was never yet brought out ofEgypt, he never yet found the true MOS ES, which is Jefus Chrift, pleadingwithfpiritual Pharaoh, that the foul may depart out thence, tofèrve the Lord ; for till then, man ferres but hinrfelfe, even in his higheft forms and duties. And like- wife the children ofIlraels paffige through the redSea, and Pharaohs purfuing, and tlleir journyings, and fîghtings, and meeting with fo many enemies in their paffage to Canaan what are all thefe things but the oppofiticns and dangerous pafíages of the foul to the heavenly Canaan, & the purfuing thereof , by the Prince ofdarknefl, and thegodofthis world : what is this but the violence ufed by the Prince of tbe power of the air, which ccntinually works in the children of difobedi- ence, that is, in all the Ions ofmen till they are by a mighty and ftronghand brought out of this their Egypt and bon- dage ? All I Jófi: 2. 27. Mat. ig. I I. 2 Cor.4.4' Eph. 2: á:
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