prejudice of being Postbumus works, yet we may fay of them as Paul faid concerning himfelfe, We fuppofe they are not inferiour to the rest of his Works, though they are born out of due time, and fragments though they are, yet are they to be efteemed, Ramenta auri funt pretiofa. Thefe Sermons are to be prized for their own worth and intrinfecall excellency, whoever was Authour, And this Authour is to be honoured for his reall worth,mbatfaever be is the authour of

Wefball ́adde this also for thy encouragement, that these Sermons have been very happily taken by the pen of a ready writer, Mr. Farthing, now a Teacher of Short writing; one who hath given ample teftimonie of his great skill and dexteritie in writing Short-hand. We think we may fay, there are not many words delivered by the Author, that are left out. However, confident we are that there is nothing materiall which was by him preached, but is here by the care and faithfulnesse of the Scribe prefented to thy view.

The defire of the publishers is that the name: of this worthy man of God may be kept in ho

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nour, that thou maift transferre these things to thy own ufe, and expreffe them in thy life, that what was spoken to fome may be common to all; what was accepted by them that heard it, may be received and improved by those that read it. This is all we have to communicate to thee; it would be an injury to detaine thee longer from the reverend Anthor; we only commend thee to the grace of God which is able to make thee abound in every good work, and bid thee Farewell.

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Exodus 15. 11.

Who is like unto thee,O Lord, amongst the Gods! who is like unto thee, glorious in holinesse, fearfull in praises, doing wonders!

His Scripture is this day fulfilled in our Eares, and before our eyes; that which God hath already begun to doe for this Kingdome and the neighbour Churches, doth fhew unto us, that there is none like unto the Lord, Who is glorious in holinesse, fearfull in praifes,doing wonders.

The words though they be in the middle of the fong, yet they are a kinde of an Epiphonema,which ufually is at the end; but the fpirit of Mofes being raised in admiring at, and bleffing God for the great things he had done for his people, he containeth not himselfe till he comes to the end, but breakes forth in the very middle with this applaufe of the glory of God, Whe is like unto thee, O Lord amongst the Gods, who is like unto thee,glo

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rious in bolineffe, fearefull in praifes, doing wonders! You fee then the words are a part of Mofes his fong, occafioned upon the goodneffe of God in delivering of his people from Egypt, and carrying of them through the Red-fea. And this fong, is the moft ancient fong that ever was in the world; it is the first in Scripture, and we know of no Author before Moses; those that were skilfull in the way of Poetry were many hundred yeares after Mofes. It is a fpirituall and moft excellent fong; the ftile of it is full of Elegancy, the matter of exceeding variety; it is Eucharificall,Triumphant, Propheticall, and 'tis pitty we have. not fuch an excellent fong as this is, turned into Meeter, to be fung in our Congregations. And it is a moft delightfull fong, and therefore you fhall obferve when God promised a great mercy to his people in

he hath reference to which they fhould exceedingly rejoyce,

fong, 2. 15. And Vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a doore of hope, and she shall fing there as in the dayes of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the Land of Egypt. When God intended any great mercy to his people, he would have them fing according to this fong of Mofes: So then, if God be in a way of mercy, if he be opening a doore of hope to us you fee how feafonable this fong is. And tis a Typicall fong, as of the deTiverance of Gods people out of Egypt, fo a Type of the delive rance of Gods people from the bondage of Antichrift; therefore it is very obfervable, that this fong was to be fung againe when the people of God fhould be delivered from Antichrift; In Revel.15. and the beginning, you may fee Gods judgements upon Antichrift. and in verf. 3. it is faid they fing the fong of Mofes the fervant of God, and the fong of the Lamb, faying, Great and marvellous are thy workes Lord God almighty; just and true are thy wayes, thou King of Saints. By this you may fee that God would fhew us, that the bondage under Antichrift is like the bondage in Egypt; and therefore Rome is called Egypt in the Revelations, becaufe when we fhall be delivred from Antichriftian bondage, we fhall renew this fong of Mofes: So that if we now ex'pect deliverance from bondage under Antichrift, it is good for us to acquaint our felves with this fong, because it is that which fhall be fung over againe when the bondage of Antichrift is re

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moved. It is a miraculons fong according to the opinion of Aufin; he brings in this fong as one of the miracles,that is,that God did at the fame time by the fpirit inspire all the people of Ifrael, that they fung together one and the fame fong; and therefore it was miraculous true if it had been fo, but the Scripture is not cleere in that.

But we leave generalls and come to the words; though there be many excellent things in the Chapter to make way to that I have read; yet becaufe I would not be hindered, will come inftantly to the words, which are as it were a recapitulation of all, containing the fubftance of all; as if he had faid, 1 have fpoken of many particulars that God doth for his people; but there is none like unto the Lord, who is glorious in bolinesse, fearefull in praifes, doing wonders. There are foure things (you fee then) wherein the name of God is advanced here: Firft, there is none like the Lord: Secondly, glorious in holineffe: Thirdly, fearefull in praises: Fourthly, doing wonders.

I confeffe when my thoughts were firft to fpeake upon this Text, I intended onely the third particular, the opening of that Title of God, fearefull in praifes; we finde not any fuch Title that I know of in all the book of God but onely in this place; but because I saw there was much of God in the two former, therefore I thought it might be usefull to fhew you what there is of God in them, and was unwilling to paffe them by. For the two firft then, who is like to thee, O Lord, amongst the Gods, who is like unto thee, glorious in bolinele, who is like to thee? this you fee is put by way of interrogation; now interrogations in Scripture are especially brought in two wayes: First, by way of admiration. Secondly, by way of negation. Sometimes by way of admiration, Ifaiah 63.1. Who is this that cometh from Edom with died garments from Bozrah! Many others we might name by way of admiration and by way of negation you know there are hundreds of examples; and both these we are to understand here in the Text: Firft, by way of admiration, who is like unto thee O Lord amongst the Gods, &c. The spirit of Mofes and the people being ftruck with aftonishment at the glory of God, now manifefted by the great workes he did, they admire and say, who is like unto thee O Lord? and then by way

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