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 Before I go farther, you may readily ask me, who was this Moſes, that is privileged with this extraordinary appearance of God? I anſwer, he was a very great and bright man who bears a very conſiderable character in the ſacred writings. He was in many things, a noble and illuſtrious Type of our Lord Jeſus Chrift. No ſooner is Moſes born, than Pharaoh purſues him to take away his life, as is plain from the bloody Edict paſſed by him for cutting off the male children of Iſrael. So, aſſoon as the Lord of glory appeared in our world, wicked Herod purſued him for his life. Again, as Moſes was obliged to flee for his life to the land of Midian ſo the Lord Jeſus Chriſt, when but a very young child is forced to fee to the land of Egypt, for preſervation from the hands of bloody Herod. Again, Moſes ran the riſque of his life in delivering one of his kinſmmen from death; ſo our Lord not only ran the riſque of his life but even left the ſame, in reſcuing his people from their ſpiritual enemies. Again, Moſes acted the part of a Shepherd for a conſiderable part of his life: ſo our Lord Jeſus Chriſt is by God the Father conſtitute a ſhepherd and acts the part of one to the ſheep of his paſture, and will do ſo till all his ſelect flock be brought home to glory. Again, Moſes was a redeemer, in ſaving of poor enſlaved Iſrael, and ranſoming them from the ſad and ſore bondage they groaned under, by the tyranny of the Egyptian taſk maſters, and their barbarous prince, and in leading them thro' the Red Sea and wilderneſs, to the borders of the goodly land of Canaan; ſo our Lord Jeſus Chriſt, a greater than Moſes, delivers his people from ſin, Satan, and all their other ſpiritual enemies; and under a ſafe convoy, leads them thro' all the ſtraits and difficulties and troubles they can be expoſed to, in this waſte and howling wilderneſs, unto the heavenly Canaan, that lies on the other ſide, the Jordan of death. Again, as Moſes was the man to whom the children of Iſrael always applied themſelves