and vaunting confidence of the Egyptians. "The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them." Here are great swelling words of vanity. It is congenial to the proud heart of man to make such boastings. It is easy too to speak such words of threat and presumptuous confidence. But is it easy to accomplish them? Ah! brethren, that is a very different thing. Let man know, be his power or pride what they may, that if he enters on any thing against the Lord, he undertakes an impossibility. Let the potshreds strive with the potshreds of the earth. But let them know, as Moses sings in the third verse, that "The Lord is a man of war; the Lord is his name." Oh! yes, The Lord is his name, and in that name the Christian believer has a power which will surely protect him against all the attempts of his most threatening foes. The enemy may come in like a flood, but the Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him. Be ye then not afraid of their

fear; but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and sing praises to his name in the perfect assurance that he will make all their proudest and loudest war-cries against you to vanish in empty sound. Hear the Egyptian boasting, "I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil." Hear Moses and the Israelites celebrating the result of this pursuit. "Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them; they sank as lead in the mighty waters."

II. I now proceed to my second head of this song of the Israelites, namely, their praises for their own deliverance.

Thus they sing in the thirteenth verse: "Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation." Truly it was a mercy, a wonderful mercy, that they were led forth, as they had been, through that series of most astonishing miracles which their God wrought for them. He had brought them out of Egypt in spite of all the opposition of its powerful king and numerous inhabitants; he

had guided and protected them on their way by the pillar and the cloud; he had led them on dry land through the depths of the Red Sea. Would they not feel this last exhibition of his care of them as a distinguishing mercy? Oh! it was in his mercy indeed that he had thus redeemed them out of the hand of all their enemies.

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Have we no redemption to celebrate? Verily we have one yet greater, yet more merciful, yet more full of power and grace. This is the redemption of our souls, effected by the blessed Jesus at the cost of his own sufferings and death. Oh! brethren, we were not redeemed by the destruction of human enemies, but the shedding of the blood of the Son of God. awoke in our behalf was against the shepherd of his people, against the man that was Jehovah's fellow. How shall we ever sufficiently celebrate this? Where shall we find a song of praise worthy of such a deliverance? Brethren, we shall find it in heaven. May the Lord bring us in safety to that holy place. St. John heard it as sung by the

blessed ones above; and even there it was a new song; new, for no creatures there had even been so redeemed but men. This was the strain, “ They sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof; for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation." "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing." "Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever."

Such is the new song in which you, Christian believers, shall bear a part in heaven. Moses celebrates his full assurance of the safe entrance of his people into their earthly Canaan. He says, "Thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation." And again, in the seventeenth verse, "Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O Lord, which thou hast made for them to

dwell in, in the sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established."-He who was greater than Moses has said, "In my Father's house are many mansions. I go to prepare a place for you; and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you to myself, that where I am, there ye may be also." "Fear not, little flock, it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." We may sing therefore of our happy prospects as well as of our past deliverances. Oh! yes, beloved brethren, the future is still brighter before us than the most gilded day of our past or present spiritual happiness. Who but the Christian should sing on the subject both of time and eternity?

III. I come now to the third head of the Israelites' song, namely, Their confident anticipation of the effects of this triumph upon the minds of their other enemies.

Thus they sing at the fourteenth verse. "The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold of the inhabitants of Palestina. Then the dukes of Edom shall