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Vers. 10.

The mountaines sawe thee, and they trembled: the streamt of the water passed by: the deepe made a noyse, and lift vp his hand on hie.

* 1.1THE second adioynt vnto this deliuerance of the people, the which is a most cleere testimonie or witnesse both of the infinit or endles power of God ouer all things, and also of his mercie and fauour toward his Church, to wit, a double miracle, the which is de∣scribed by an Anthropopatheia.* 1.2 The first miracle was the trem∣bling of the earth, that is, of the mountaines, or a great earthquake there, the which was at the giuing of the law, wherwith the moun∣taine Sinai himselfe was shaken. And this is reported Exod. 19.18. And mount Sinai was all on a smoke, because the Lord came downe vpon it in sire, & the smoke thereof ascended, as the smoke of a fornace, and all the mount trembled exceedingly. Hereof also speaketh Dauid Psal. 114. ver. 4.6. The mountaines leaped like rammes, and the hilles as lambes. Ye mountaines, why leaped ye like rammes, and ye hilles as lambes? The second miracle appeared in the waters, whilest both the red sea went backe, and was dried vp at the commandement of God: and also whilest the law being giuen in Mount Sinai, there were thundrings and lightnings, and most thicke cloudes, and the noyse of a trumpet was heard in the ayre. Of the going backe and

drying vp of the sea thus it is written Exod. 14. ver. 21. And Moses stretched forth his hand vpon the sea, and the Lord caused the sea to runne backe by a strong East winde all the night, and made the sea drie land: for the waters were deuided. Hereof the Psalmist speaketh thus Psal. 114. ver. 3. The sea sawe it, and fled: Iorden was turned back. And Psal. 77. ver. 16.17. The waters sawe thee, O God, the waters saw thee, and were afrayd: yea the depths trembled. The clowdes powred out water: the heauens gaue a sound: yea, thine arrowes went abrode. Of the thunder and lightning, the thicke clowde and sound of a trumpet thus we reade Exod. 19. ver. 16. And the third day, when it was morning, there was thunders, and lightnings, and a thicke clowde vpon the mount, and the sound of the trumpet exceeding lowd, so that all the people, that was in the campe, was afrayd.

Notes

• * 1.1

  2. A double mi∣racle.
• * 1.2

  What Anthro∣popatheia is, see Mich. cap. 7 ver. 8.