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O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end.
BLessed Moses that Renowned Servant of the Lord, and King in Ieshurun (having served his own Generation by the Will of God, and performed his high and honourable Undertaking in Leading and conducting that untractable & rebellious People of Israel to the borders of Canaan, and after many Temptations and Exerci∣ses in the Wast and Howling Desart, brought them to a fair view, and near prospect of that long promised and much desired Land) was just now ready to deliver up his trust, and resigne the weighty charge of that great Congregation unto Ioshua, his servant and successor, on whom it was devolved by the immediate order and disposal of the Lord. You have in this Chapter his 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 His Swan like Song, or his Farewell Sermon (as I may not ineptly call it) dictated to him by the Spirit of God, and delivered by him to that people at his departure from them in∣to another World: And it is a very precious and a stately portion of Scri∣pture. The Hebrews say of this Song of Moses, that it is a Summary of the whole Law, wherein mention is made of Gods Magnificence, the Creation of the World, the One true God that is to be Worshipped, t•••• Generation of the Flood, the Division of Languages and Lands, the E••••••∣ction and Separation of the Children of Israel for the peculiar Treasure 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Inheritance of the Lord, the benefits conferred upon them in the Wild••••∣ness, the future Resurrection of the dead, with many other things of gr•••••• importance and concernment. You may well call it a Song of Degre•••• (as David doth some of his Psalme) in respect of the superlative excel∣lency of it: It is certainly a Prophetical Song, wherein we have a predi∣ction, or Prophetical Declaration of what the Lord, the God of their Fa∣thers, would do for that people of Israel in that good Land of Canaan; and of the manner of their demeanour and deportment of themselves there. Moses by the spirit of Prophesie gives us in this Chapter, as in a true Glas•• the feature of that People, as it look'd in after-times. He begins the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 with a Rhetorical & pathetical Apostrophe, wherein there is a most 〈◊〉〈◊〉