Exodus 14:20-22

Pause, Reader, and learn to cry out with the apostle, behold the goodness and severity of God. Here is opened to us that wondrous display of discriminating grace, which is so often the subject of praise and admiration through the whole bible. The glory of God; the joy of the church: the terror of her enemies; Joshua 2:10; Psalms 136:13; Psalms 136:13. But while I desire the Reader to make all due observation of those things, I beg of him, yet more particularly, to look into the spiritual sense of this great event. Read Hebrews 11:29. Doth not this plainly prove, that our fathers had an eye, by faith to even yet a greater salvation, than what they now experienced? And was not their passing through the Red sea typical of our redemption by the blood of Jesus? Moreover the apostle to the Corinthians makes it a type of baptism. See 1 Corinthians 10:1. After the Reader hath duly pondered those things, I beg of him to consult Isaiah 11:15 and say, is not this figurative also of the conversion of souls!