And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy [you].
Ver. 68. And the Lord shall bring thee into Egypt.] This is the last and greatest curse here threatened. Oh pray, pray, said that Dutch divine upon his deathbed, Pontifex enim Romanus, et Concilium Tridentinum mira moliuntur, for the Pope and his council are seeking to bring us all back into spiritual Egypt.
“ Ah ne diem illum posteri
Vivant meiquo pristinum
Vertantur in lutum aurea
Quae non bearunt saecula! ”
What long hath been the opinion and fear of some, not unconsiderable divines, that Antichrist, before his abolition, shall once again overflow the whole face of the west, and suppress the whole Protestant churches, I pray God to avert. a
a Mr Baylie's Anabaptis. Unsealed, &c., pref.