the left. But when Pharaoh and the Egyptians pursued and went in
after them, the waters returned and utterly destroyed them. Then
with exceeding mighty miracles and divine manifestations by the
space of forty years he led the people in the wilderness, and fed
them with bread from heaven, and gave the Law divinely written on
tables of stone, which he delivered unto Moses on the mount, `a
type and shadow of things to come' leading men away from idols
and all manner of wickedness, and teaching them to worship only
the one true God, and to cleave to good works. By such wondrous
deeds, he brought them into a certain goodly land, the which he
had promised aforetime to Abraham the patriarch, that he would
give it unto his seed. And the task were long, to tell of all
the mighty and marvellous works full of glory and wonder, without
number, which he shewed unto them, by which it was his purpose to
pluck the human race from all unlawful worship and practice, and
to bring men back to their first estate. But even so our nature
was in bondage by its freedom to err, and death had dominion over
mankind, delivering all to the tyranny of the devil, and to the
damnation of hell.

"So when we had sunk to this depth of misfortune and misery, we
were not forgotten by him that formed and brought us out of
nothing into being, nor did he suffer his own handiwork utterly
to perish. By the good pleasure of our God and Father, and the
co-operation of the Holy Ghost, the only-begotten Son, even the
Word of God, which is in the bosom of the Father, being of one
substance with the Father and with the Holy Ghost, he that was
before all worlds, without beginning, who was in the beginning,
and was with God even the Father, and was God, he, I say,
condescended toward his servants with an unspeakable and