" . (zS) ' -obr~rve it; Their Troubles are th~ir way to ·their Triumph; their very falling into the net, their way ~v efcape. Their El!lemies -boaf-l: ; Efcape ! Ari[e ! yes, let ~hem free themfelves with [u~h hopes while they wTll, we have them fure enough, we haye thetn under foot, we have them in the net: If this be ~heir way, weel keep them in their way long enough ; now we have them down, they lhall not be able to rife. I, but yet it appears, through alfthis the Lord Jed ~hem forth into a WcaJthy ,place. The High-way of the pn:md is not their more ready way ts> the cf,uH,. than the dufi ofSaints is their fure way tp ho– nour. When Ifrael were to go . to ·Ctt11acen_, they mufl take the Brick-Kilnes, the Red Sea, the Wit~ dernefs, Jordan, in their way: Could any 01\e have imagi·ned, .that 'the bqndage, the firaits they wen; amder, the doubling their Tasks, the cruelty af their Task.. Malters, theitA enclofure at the Red Sea, diq mean any gooc{ to them? yet, How fel1 it 0Ut at blt? their darkeH: difpenfations had light in 'their latter ead ; .Their greatdl b'ondage leads on to their grea– teH- liberty. Every crofs ' Providence is a fl:ep to the accom.. plHbment of the Promi[e; the Wheel is ever ... mo– V!ing on to its end; it moves ll ill forw1rds., even. when it feems to go quite backward5 : As the Ri.. ''er by its many turpings and windinzs.forwardsand backwards , is Hill in motion to the Sea, when it · feems to be nmning quice c0ntrary~ Chriftians, ifever the Salvation of God feems to. be removed farther eff from you ; if the work of God fhou1d at' any ti~e feem to go backwards; if crofs Winds 01ould turn the whole courfe, fo tha~ you appear racher to be m,arching back to ~l}Pt,than I 011
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