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( 4 ) Before I go further you may readily ask who was this Moses, that is prevleged with this  appearance of God? I answer, he a very great and bright man. who bears a very character in the sacred writings. He in many things a noble illustrious Type of o lord Jesus Christ. No sooner is Moses born, th Pharaoh pursues him to take away his life, as is from the bloody  passed by him for cutting  the male children of Israel  assoon as the  of glory appeared in our world, wicked Herod  him for his life Again, as Moses was  to flee for his life to the land of Midian so the  Jesus Christ, when but a very young child, is  to flee to the Land of Egypt, for preservation  the hands of bloody Herod. Again, Moses ran risque of his life in delivering of  kinsmen  death; so our Lord not only ran the risque of  life, but even lost the same in rescuing his  from their spiritual enemies. Again, Moses the part of a shepherd for a considerable part of  life: so our Lord Jesus Christ is by God the  constituted a shepherd, and acts the part on one  the sheep of his pasture, and will do so till all his  flock be brought home to glory. Again, was a redeemer, in saving of poor enslaved  and ransoming them from the sad and ore bondage they groaned under, by the tyranny of the  task masters, and their barbarous prince, and in  them thro’ the red Sea and Wilderness to  borders of the goodly land of Canaan; so our  Jesus Christ a greater than Moses delivers  people from sin, Satan, and all their other  enemies, and, under a safe convoy, leads them  all the straits, difficulties and troubles they can be exposed to in this waste and howling wilderness  the heavenly Canaan, that lies on the other side th Jordan of Death Again, as Moses was the man  whom the children of Israel always applied themselves