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 in their doubts and difficulties; ſo is our Lord Jeſus appointed a counſellor, and all who want their ſpiritual doubts reſolved, and their ſpiritual grievances redreſſed, muſt apply unto him. All things whatſoever ye ſhall ask in prayer, ſays Chriſt, believing ye ſhall receive Math xxi, 22: This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleaſed: Hear ye him. As Pharaoh commanded the Egyptians, when in want of corn, to go to Joſeph, ſo 'tis the duty of all under all their wants and preſſures to apply unto the Lord Jeſus Chriſt. He is appointed Heaven's truſtee, to let out upon ſinners and I can aſſure you, that whoever of you ſhall by faith, apply unto our sſpiritual Joſeph, whatever your wants and necceſſities be, ye ſhall undoubtedly get them all ſupplied. Whatever your grievances are, come to Jeſus and you ſhall get them all redreſſed. 'Tis ſaid here, that Moſes led his flock to the backſide of the deſert, and in this he is remarkably a type of Chriſt; for he leads his people to the deſert of conviction and humiliation. You read in Acts ii. that he led three thousand perſons to this deſert in one day, and upon their coming there, led them alſo to mount Sion, where they got a diſcovery of Jeſus Chriſt as their own ſaviour. Again, Moſes came to Horeb, the mountain of God. Wherein may ye ſay, was he in that typical of Chriſt? Horeb and Sinai are but one mountain ſome writers are of opinion, that they are two tops of one and the ſame, mountain. Unto this mountain Moſes came. Even ſo our Lord Jeſus Chrift came to mount Sinai, and there took upon him all their curſes that were pronounced from that back mountain, and bore all the wrath and puniſhment their law and Juſtice threatened, in the room and ſtead of his people. O ſirs, you that perhaps juſt now are ſcorched with the fiery flames that iſſue forth from mount Sinai come to Jeſus and you ſhall get theſe quenched by his blood.

But to proceed. Moſes, I ſaid before gets here