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Show Lhefecoiit Booke ofthe frstparvo? Cu deisS.ios --- Cuare Gut, - thé nahdédadsl nee oF"7 Him, virco whomin his prayets he commrehdedthenr+ Pe , alfo comseaanal Piiene B hay vpthé Booke ofthe Baw,by the fide Of the 4rke of God 7% i that he anh 's. ; ; i, . sae Tt Tn vw. ' raked bey Be eh und ye, Hedeens Hearken Song, beginniheY Was that Propheticall indited Cuir. VI let theEartly hear' the'ordsof my rbitl:and being called'by Goi Paste » a Hi Of the Nations with whom the Ifraelites had dealing after their comming out of Coypt . and of the men of ren owne forrdwes of rhis fife, vito that rel? which never afterward hath difquict; *hee Wasbiitiec in the Land of Afozb, oucr againft Betb-Peor': butnd man knoweth of his Sepulcher to thisday: which happenedin the yceré of the World. 25 54. OFX. Obferuations out of the Story ofMotes, how God difpoferh both the mallet vccafion f, anathe Greateft refistances, tothe effecting of bispurpofe. in, other Nations, about the timesiofMo/es and Jofua, i Owlet vsa little, for inftraction, looke backe to the occafions offundryofthe great events,which haue beene mentioned in this Story of the life of AMofes,for (excepting Geds miracles, his promife, and fore-choife of this people) hee wroughtin allthingselfeby the meaiwmof mensaffeGions,and natuvall ap nd fo wefhall finde thatthe feare which Pharaoh hadofthe increafe of the He. brewes, multiplied by God to exceedinggreat numbers,wasthe next naturallcau forrowes and loffe, which befell himfelfe, andthe Egyptian Nation fe ofthe ' which numbers? when he fought by cruell and vagodlypolicies to cut offandleflen ,as when he‘commandedallthe male-children of the Hebrewes to beflaine, God ¢ whofe prouidence' cannot be refifted,nor his purpofés preuented by all the foolith and faluagecraftof moftall men) inoued compaftion in the heart of ‘Pharao's owne daughter'co preferuethat childe,which afterward became the moft wife, and-ofall men the moft gentle and milde, themottexcellently learned inall Diuineand' Humane knowledge, tobe the'conductor and deliueret of his oppreffed brethren, and the euerthrowof7 arao,andalithe flowerof his Na tion'; euen then, whenhe fought by the ftreneth of his men of Warre, of his Horfe, and Chariots, totreadthem vider; and buty themin'the du: ‘The eriefewhich : az/es con ceiued of the iniuries,and ofthe violence offted to one of the: Hebrewesi in his ownes! prefence; moued him to rake teuetige of ‘the Eeyprian that offered it: the ingratitude ot one of his owne Nation, by threatning him to difcouer the flaughter of ‘the Expt, moued himtoflicinto atidian : the contention betweenethe Shepheards ‘of thatplace, and Jethro's Daughters, made him knowneto theit Father + who not onély ‘entertaine him, butimarried him to one ofthofe Sifters : and ia that folitary: life of keeping of his Fatherin lawes theepe, farre from the prefle of ithe World; contén ting himf{elfe (though bredas a Kings Sonne) with thelor ofa poore Heard mati, God found him out in tht Defert, wherein he firtt faffered himto line Many yeeres, the betterto know the ways and paflages through which he purpofed that he thould condué his people, Land promifed': and'therein appearing vato him,he th made him knowhis willtoward and dinite pleafiré for his returneinto Egypt. The like may befaid of alt things elfe, which Myf afterwatd by Gods diteétion performed.in the Story of/rael before remembred.Thet® ident; which may feeme vata men as falling out by esd : . 4 at ( : but that the ameis cante by God to effet elfe by : yea, arid oftentimes foment to effet things of the gteateftd world ly impor tance ,et h prefently,or in man 5 gott 2 en. y yecres after, when the occafions ate eithe r not confidered, 01° of the Hyftorieofthe Wwidy 3 with the fumme of the Hiftor. of Iofua, ba How the Natioks with whom the Yraelites we,reto haue Warre, were atuers wae S, att were, prepared io be their enemies. say 3 N likemaninerif we look té the quality ofth e Nations. Ewich Whomthe Ifraclites,afier thei:coniming out ofEe ypt,had to doe,eitherin thé wiz. devneffesor afterward: we thall finde them long before- hand,by the diee {pofine pronidencé of God'asirwere Prepared for enmity: partly in re= A Saoeayy {pect thatthey were inoff ofthe in of the ifftie OfCanaan, oratleat oF sees Ham: atid the rehas the Edomites, Moabites, Ammonites& were mingled with then? by Iftaelites) mutual martiages':' Whereas the Tisclites fill continied {tranicers, and {eparate from therii: ahd {o partly in'this refpectand partly by ancient iniuries of etimiitiés, and pattly'by reafo nof diuerfity in Religion, Were thefé Natio ns, 'as it Were prepared to be enemies to the Ifraelites : and {6 to feruie for fuck purpofé's as God had teferuedthicin for. To makethe & thin gsmo re manifen; weemutt vnderftand that this part of syHabounded bythe moiit taines OFLibanwsand Zidowon the Noit h,by the fame mountainés continued ‘as farre asthe Springs'ofU4rnon on the Eat: bythe Way 30 Epyptyarid thé Red Seaortthe South of ? and by the Mediterran Seaon the wee ? was inhabitedand pedpled bytwo Nationst heon from'Sem:bilt tafe ofSewwere bit as e {pringing from thefonnés ofChane; the othe? firtn : gers therein Fora longtitidiand canie in effee but with' one Funtily/vo wit; thitlier of Cabrabant anda fer oFhis kihdted. The a Sieg ather for the greateftpart werathe Cananthar theSonne vf ités; the ancient Lordgaid pofleffors of thofé*s' Territories :by procefle of time r, and diuidedint of them were ofemitient Ratare and ftreni o feuerall Famitliés and: nanies: whefeot forné Sen eth} asthe A nakims! Zimzimmimns, ot Zhe; themfelues in Emims, Horitesjand othexs!!rhefe (a9mien'moftyvaliantand able'com monly dbey'did in= th: aie "3 habite theviterborders arid mountain s oftheir Courtries* thie re} were the Zidoniang? bala : where lebufites, Ainoiites;Heuites:Hetitesiand others, whot 4° nane sand after Whom the Countiey ookenaie after the hHes OfCas 'they finde the ingénerall was fill called: As forthe Hebrewes which defte tatu ofsheps by Abraham, they wete ofan milie, andftraagersin that Countrey,nded efpecially the Ifraclites :and this wad other Fq- ‘dwelt as one. forme' that the Canaaniresdid:notastest them) orindure them "no morethin the PhiliftinsCdiife or mee obo whodeftendedalfoof chan: by did afc, rand Atizraim\ For Serjwas hioklyelteamedand Kono though Abraham himlette being a ftran- ; he uredamone them 3 C{pecially by the Améties iHAa: ss called ‘ane. biting the Weft partofyoruan: betnow tuén they which defce nded from Hbrthaw. of *it. Sceherefrom hiskindredsabede mam ulvipl ied irthafe parts; were Zlienatedi ff aeGHONS from st chro. the Iffacliteseasiholding them ftrangersa adintridéts); Makino mMoteatcontit Ofthet a}! xod-17.16. liante with the Canaanitesvandrherel bfthe itieot Chai Wirth WHorh Sottaded affininaxhan éfrheiold tipitcefr of reydaity Chas" om abraham: 119% Trucicis,chacthele Naionedefcendedo kedthemfeluds'and imatGhedwithithe@a f Abribim orot KR % indeed whohiadlids Deur?rr.5. hadi felns of ‘thetistdersot thofe Rupions| astt itesahd others: had fo faite BofA thém: ieybesaitobed qualia ttre dering Cahaanittsif nde fupetiour;: Roof Lor cdinethofe WO pre nech tthe bore a Pathilies oFtu Moabites;8; Ami inonited: bE/eath e Idym chick fonnOakidbrabamenhethe Ufnaue zans:of tadien the Madianices: Ofpeel he lites; with whom are ioynea Kofi le ame tion the Amialelites,whdra ‘Nz. ghthe more common opini Tribe: dfEdorisbecaufe Efi thon hadagrard-chikde oftharthame,onthiaketh to hare becnea" yetfnanitenh +04 A} Con." uinceth' |