Vicissitudes Progress WITH Its Convoy through the COUNTIES OF Essex Kent Surrey Sussex AND Middlesex To Westminster and to London By way of Premonstration 1 Pet. 2.17 Fear God Honor the King Deut. 17.15 Thou shalt in any wise set a King over thee whom the Lord thy God shall choose Verse 16. But he shall not multiply horses to himself nor cause the people to return to Egypt Verse 17. Neither shall he multiply wives to himself that his heart turn not away Neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold Verse 18 And it shall be when he sitteth upon the Throne of his Kingdom that he shall write him a copy of this Law in a book Verse 19. And it shall be with him and he shall read therein all the days of his life that he may learn to fear the Lord his God LONDON Printed for Laurence Chapman and are to be sold at his shop next door to the Fountain Tavern in the Strand near the Savoy 1648. Vicissitudes Progress WITH Its Convoy through the Counties of Essex Kent Surrey Sussex and Middlesex to Westminster and to London THe mutation of things cause oblivion yet Vicissitude seems to bring new things into the world But there is no new thing under the Sun That which hath been is and that which is will be hereafter onely by reason of the mutability of mens mindes we think those things to be new which we have forgotten to be before All things descend and mount again by changes so as in revolution of time we receive that for new and good which was a little before thrust out as evil and unsufferable Such mutations cause Divisions Factions Alteration in Religion change of Government and strange Transmutations in States Cities Kingdoms and Empires Men naturally seek after Novelties and so they desire Ease and Liberty any tye of Obedience is burthensom therefore are not long content in any condition neither with a King nor without a King will be sick for a Parliament and sick of a Parliament complain of defects in Governors yet cast off all Government The desires of men are violent whirled about and hurryed after Change without consideration and their Concupiscence restless not restrained by Conscience Law nor Punishment though Conscience check within and the Magistrate curb without Conscience is smothered and Magistracy trampled in the dust God is rejected in his own Ordinance Magistracy is Gods Ordinance the Office and Authority of the Magistrate is of Divine Right under the Law and under the Gospel a stamp of Divine power is put upon it Magistrates are stiled by Gods own Name I have said ye are gods they are furnished with Authority from God and bear his person are in his stead ordained to be a terror to the evil and a praise to them that do well Rom. 13.1 3. The Magistrate is the minister of God to execute wrath upon him that doth evil to this end God hath given Authority to the Magistrate to make penal Laws and to execute the penalties against the offenders according to the offence and to such Laws Christ requires men to be obedient Rom. 13 5. 1 Pet. 2.15 Submit to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake yeâ— for conscience sake whether it be to the King as Supreme or unto Governors or Rulers sent by him c. For so is the will of God But the Magistrate must not command any thing contrary to Gods Word for then we must rather suffer then obey Nor is the Magistrate to bring clear Texts of Scripture for every particular Command Where no clear Text forbids we are bound to submit in all things tending to Government Civil and Ecclesiastical There is diversity in Magistracy The King as Supreme and Governors sent by him c. a Kings Authority is derivative Emperors or Kings have sole Rule where there is absolute Monarchy there Will is a Law as it was in Caldea Persia c. but Kings and Parliaments govern together where there is mixt Monarchy and a free People as once it was in France and is still in England and Scotland by Gods blessing and in these Kingdoms Parliaments as to Governments have the chief place of Magistracy yet still the King is Supreme as King but Kings Act by their Counsel Now Parliaments are not ordained only to be the Kings great Councel but are the full Representative Body of the People intrusted with all their Rights and is part of the Regal Power for the King is vertually in Parliament though he be personally absent it is the highest Court of Justice a mean between the King and People to judge or ballass between Incroaching Prerogative and Insulting Liberty Parliament onely is Judge consisting of King Lords and Commons not the King nor the People Parliaments being invested in all Rights belonging to the Subject are bound to uphold them they cannot without perjury and Traytors to Posterities give away the Peoples Interest Nor may the People without extreme ingratitude and baseness but maintain Parliaments therein with hazard of Life and Estate Men in City and Country Trade Traffique moyl and toyl as Moles in the earth Why to leave Estates to their Children and will you sell their Freedom by deserting a Parliament and so leave your Children Bond-slaves not able to say this or that is mine but the Kings or his to whom He shall give it Parliaments as I said are intrusted with all the Rights of the Subjects so they have part of the Regal power stampt upon their Authority therefore they must give to Cesar his due and to the People their dues Kings are nursing fathers Protectors of their People Defendors of their Lives Rights and Liberties therefore Kings What Kings are above the People is originally from the People they being instituted and chosen by the People for defence security and commodity The people are also for such protection to yield to Kings willing loyal and chearful obedience and subjection That which makes is greater then that which is made but the People make Kings no King can make a People therefore the safety of the People and a Kingdom is to be preferred before the Honor of a King It is true there is Honor Supremacy and Prerogative belongs as Right to a King to some more and to some less while he is a King but if he be a Tyrant and seek to destroy what he ought to preserve What Honor is due and by whom I expect an Answer In the mean time I dare boldly say That the Parliament of England at this day are willing to give to their King and to His as to any of his Progenitors all His Just Rights and Honor provided His Majesty endeavor the Right of Patronage Defence and Security of the Peoples Rights The Parliament must not give the Peoples Interest to the King Nor may the People sell the Rights of their Posterities for a morsel of meat except they will be as prophane Esau who sold his Birthright for
King at all Voted no more Addresses to be made to Him but have kept up an Army to over rule the Kingdom c. To this I answer They have sate long and with great difficulty they have endured much taken great pains yet cannot effect that which we desire the Reason is because there are some joyned with them in the work like Sheba sons of Bichri 2 Sam. 20.1 that would not have a King nor Peace others like the revolted promiscuous Samaritans of Sanballats confederacy adversaries to Reformation who under pretence of building Gods house pull down what others endeavor to build as in Ezra and Nehemiahs time besides the people of the Land the great complainers have as then they did Weakned their hands troubled them yea Ezr. 4. hired Counsellors against them to frustrate their purpose so that this Parliament have been forced to tread unknown paths and met with unheard of oppositions as no Parliament of England ever did before them then no marvel if the work be long But to say that things are worse then they were is a scandal It is true things are very ill and much the worse by the complainers calumnies and seditious Petitions thwarting one another And whereas you say they have sought themselves you must distinguish between the Parliament and particular men that some men in Parliament have been meer self-seekers I with sorrow of heart acknowledge but the people sent them thither therefore the people that make no better choyce are in fault not the Parliament But why are the good despised one mans fault doth not make another to be guilty no more then Peter and the rest of the eleven Apostles were to be condemned because Judas was also an Apostle yet a Thief a Traytor and a Devil You say they intend to have no King that 's clearly false and injurious Why then did the Parliament offer Proposals to the King so often from time to time and really promise to make His Majesty greater then His Progenitors if they intended not to establish their King Let but His Majesty yet secure the Kingdom and I shall not need to say this Objection is false That a Vote past the House to make no more Addresses to the King is true because He might see He refusing their Proposals they intended to settle the Kingdom without Him but that Vote was onely restrictive No more Addresses without consent of Parliament yet as Parliament should see cause they might notwithstanding that Vote make as many Addresses as they would but not perpetually there must be an end of offering In a word whatever failing have been in actions or success it is not to be laid upon Parliament but particular men and faction private designs and self-interest There have been factions and factious men and that hath added to the Kingdoms misery Is it not so in all Societies What City Town or County in this Kingdom is free and is the thing that threatens desolation pride and covetousness is the cause of it besides Romanists Episcopalists and Libertines have broached strange Opinions and old Heresies such as have been condemned by the purest Primative Churches and are contrary to Scripture sound Doctrine and the power of godliness these have strengthned factions and factions have bred quarrels and sidings by which we have weakened our selves and strengthened the Enemy and acted their design all along so as we may truly say if God give us to destruction our destruction is of our selves and all this is Gods just judgement upon the Nation Because we received not the love of the truth 2 The. 2. Isa 19.14 but had pleasure in unrighteousness therefore God sent us strong delusions that we might believe a lye And mixed a perverse Spirit in the midst of us causing us to erre And for your Objection as to the keeping up the Army I say it is Gods great mercy that there is such an Army on foot in the Kingdom at this day they are the means under God by which we or any thing that is ours are preserved yet I will not justifie any thing not just in any evil must not be done that good may come of it yet God in his wise providence turneth evil to good as the selling of Joseph into Egypt was a wicked act in his brethren but was the means by Gods providence of preserving them and their old father from death Surely no Army in all the Christian world have been more prosperous sucessful and faithful as to an Army they have prevailed in all their attempts against the Enemy like Joshua and Caleb and deserve honor and reward above ordinary Soldiers notwithstanding they be men of infirmities as other men In many things we offend all How shall we look to be forgiven if we will not forgive or how can we forgive an Enemy if we will not forgive a friend one trespass especially such a friend as hath delivered us and doth deliver us from the wrath of a cruel Enemy I have a word or two by your patience to whisper to the famous City London I say famous City for so ye once were for your zeal to God bounty to your friends and gallantry against your Enemies you were a terror to the Enemy a comforter to your friends a supporter to the Kingdom and a refuge to the distressed that fled to you for shelter your selves like Zebulun and Nepthtali Were a people that jeoparded their lives in the high places of the field To the help of the Lord against the mighty Iudg. 5 Give me leave by way of complaint to ask you How comes it to pass that you are fallen back revolted lost your first love violated your Covenant I speak not to the Magistratical part of the City who still hold to their first principles but to the generality of the inhabitants especially to the yonger sort who of friends are become Enemies I have observed but few take notice that of late very many Delinquents have put their Sons Apprentice in this City you may see their end by their practice Consider I pray Luke 9.62 the saying of our Savior Christ No man having put his hand to the plough and looking back is fit for the Kingbom of God Do not ye lightly esteem the Rock of your Salvation ye began well why suffer you your selves to be seduced by the Enemy ye did believe the Cause to be just and so indeed it was as ever any war as to the defensive part Errors in the managing alters not the cause nor can warrant your falling off The quarrel is the same the Enemy is the same and your Interests are the same that they were at the first How comes it then that ye are changed Surely this is an evil change you now make Leagues with the same Enemy against whom ye so lately were engaged notwithstanding the Enemy still hates you and seeks to destroy you Nay ye know the Enemy is Gods Enemy and an Enemy to the Truth and
to your Religion and Liberties Will you pull down what with so great difficulty you have built up Why do ye suffer Horse to be at this day listed in your City by that Enemy and do not apprehend them that do it You do not onely evil your selves but you cause and encourage others to do like you The eyes of the Kingdom are upon you as formerly by your good example many were forward to the help of the Lord against the mighty so now by your evil example many draw back and are seditious yea strengthen the hands of the enemy that they may be mighty again and then they will destroy you Was Meroz cursed because they came not out to help the Lord against the mighty and can London be blessed if they help the mighty against the Lord yet Meroz was not engaged by any Covenant Isa 30.1 nor by so great an interest as London is Wo unto the rebellious City saith the Lord that take counsel but not of me that cover with a covering but not of my Spirit that they may adde sin unto sin Isa 1.21 May it not be said of London as once of Jerusalem How is the faithful City become an Harlot It was full of Judgement Righteousness lodged in it but now murtherers thy silver is become dross c. You that could not have endured to hear reproach in private against the Authority of Parliament now are reproachers your selves and joy to see and read base and scurrilous Pamphlets and encourage them that vent them in your streets to all parts of the Kingdom It cannot be but you must be brought into the refining furnace shall God visit the corrupted streams and not visit the fountain that corrupteth the sword hath gone round through all Counties and Towns and shall it escape London it is not to be hoped without there be a general Reformation and a Humiliation to divert it If London drink the dregs of Gods wrath it will be bitter look to it and look for it ye that are secure in your sins and wish the Enemy may enter your streets you shall not escape when that day cometh for God will finde you out and make them that you account your friends to be your destroyers remember therefore from whence ye are fallen and to what you are changed and do your first works Objection We are the same we were we are not changed but the cause is not that it was our first Engagement was for Defence of our Laws our Religion Priviledges of Parliament and Liberty of the Subject and withal to preserve the Person and Honor of the King in the preservation of these but our Laws are changed our Religion lost Parliament forced to do and undo our Liberties infringed Trade discouraged and decayed the King contemned the Peace of the Kingdom retarded and we who have born the heat of the day spent our blood and wasted our Estates are now rejected as Malignants because an Army may not govern over our City to force a change in our Religion and Government c. all which is contrary to our first engagement but is the design of the Army For answer you are not the same you were though grant you or many of you have had discouragement but the truth is you are poisoned in judgement by your frequent converse with Delinquents who works upon your discontents and jealousies and breed jealousies to that end between you and the Army between the Presbyterian and the Independent so as you dare not trust one another no not so much as a Christian dare trust a Turk but upon meer jealousie they have put you upon designs against the Army and the Army upon revenge against you neither justifiable among Christians Is this the way of God or can men that are godly do such things these are fruits of ungodliness from City and Army In a word your Laws are not changed nor changing but they are broken in pieces by both your disobedience your Religion is not lost but it is thrust out of your Churches as out of your houses and affections by your neglect of Duties your prophanation of Sabbaths contempt of Holiness and your ordinary practice of execrable Impieties which is grown bold and audacious impious in the sight of God and men so as to swear to be drunk to whore to break the Sabbath scoff at holy Fasts revile Magistracy to deride the Ministers and the very Gospel is to be secure but to be observed not to be one of them that do thus or to reprove any their wicked practices is death or threatning of ruine at the least is this to be as ye were when ye durst not be prophane but fill'd your Churches on Sabbath days and Fasts days not the Fields and Brothel houses as now You say the Parliament is forced God forbid though 't is too true it hath been so but by whom I wish the City as well as the Army were not guilty of some forcings Your Liberties are not infringed except you count that infringment that you are restrained from destroying your selves and your posterities Nor is your Trading discouraged but furthered by the Parliament it is true by your own divisions you have caused Forrain Merchants to be jealous to trust or trade with you at present You know a little before this Parliament begun your Trade was discouraged and lost Who did that the Parliament redeem'd it when all Trading was cut off by Monopolies so as you all cryed out you were undone without remedy when that projecting old Lord Goring was a more smoking Monopolizer then ere he was a Soldier yet now you flie to ayd him is not this a change do you think to mend Trading by bringing in old Monopolizers be sure as you live they cannot live without their old trade you do well to love them that hate you but you shall finde they will grow rich and make London poor the eye of envy hath been upon you long you have been thought too great to be ruled now they will rule you if ye provide not against it and make you as little as your yonger brethren It may be the revolting of our Ships may prejudice your Trade a little but that 's your own faults who have given ill examples and discouragement to Land and Sea it is the fruit of your own devices That the Peace of the Kingdom hath been retarded I deny not I blame not the City nor Parliament more then the Army who were thought very faulty in that particular I believe they have repented of it and I hope God hath forgiven it therefore I accuse none it is sure we mist time it were well it were redeemed But to your Objection that you have born the heat of the day and are now rejected c. I say little but wish those that desire peace to the Kingdom to be at peace one with another I know the Army were too high and so were the City too but let 's be friends it
God doth not shake the very foundations of Empires Kingdoms Cities and People for nothing nor for any small change in the world Antichrist is falling he must fall and will fall suddenly The scattered Jews now like vagabonds in all Nations must be gathered together and shall believe Iesus Christ to be the true Messiah There shall be but one Shepherd and one Sheepfold Some Kingdoms and Nations must be consumed to dust some must be purged in the fire of Afflictions as fire tryeth silver so variety of afflictions must try the Saints but there must be a falling away first and there must be Errors and Heresies that they that be approved may be made manifest and that is in these days and at this time then God will put his Law into our hearts and we shall all know God and be of one minde one heart and one way and in the end all opposers of Christ and Reformation all Papists Atheists and Hereticks all prophane Cavaliers and loose licencious men that now rebel against God the Magistrate Law Religion c. shall all come to confusion nothing more sure they make Lyes their Refuge and make a Covenant with Death are at agreement with Hell and say no hurt shall come to them but the overflowing scourge shall sweep away that Refuge and they shall perish suddenly they for a time are Gods rods to afflict his people though they exercise their own malice rage and fury against Gods truth and think to bury Reformation in the womb They all combine take counsel together hold confederacies and are associated in power yet they shall be broken in pieces all their counsel shall be frustrate their confederacy blasted Isa 8.9 and their designs come to nought If ye believe the Prophets ye shall prosper if ye will not believe the Prophets 2 Chr. 20.20 Isa 7.9 ye shall not be established Suppose you should see many thousand dryed straws march furiously against a burning coal and compass it about thinking to overwhelm it and smother it Whether will prevail think you at the last Those multitudes of straws may for a time ecclipse the light of the fire but the heat will encrease till at length it break forth into a flame and will in a moment consume them every one Thus all wicked men now combined-against God and Reformation in Doctrine and life for that 's the inward cause of all this hurly burly though God may for a time suffer them and himself by them afflict men for their self-seeking and self-ascribing and miscarriages of businesses so as these men may ecclipse the light of truth yet it shall surely break out as a devouring flame and consume them all It is hard to kick against pricks These are trying times times for exercise of every grace in men Faith Hope Patience Humility c. Hab. 2.4 Graces would not be seen nor known nor should be rewarded but by the exercise of every one The just shall live by his faith There is a twofold life which men live by There is the life of Sense and the life of Faith The life of Sense is meer Natural such was the lives of the best of Heathen men and such is the life of most in the world called Christians that live but as heathen and publicans as without God in the world They look onely upon outward means and events trust to the arm of flesh when that fails they sink as men without hope But the life of Faith is Heb. 11.6 To believe that God is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him Faith sees things that are not and beholds things that are promised as if they were when all outward means fail by which they hoped for accomplishment of the thing hoped for they still are the same If the Figiree blossom not nor fruit be in the Vine the Olive fail and the field yield no meat though the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stall yet they rejoyce in the Lord and will trust in the God of their Salvation Faith makes not haste but stays Gods time seeks no indirect means resists no workings of God but traceth God in his footsteps and observes the several turnings and windings of Providences is constant in duty and leaves the Success to God If we would do thus and lay aside all by-ends carnal policy and hurtful jealousies it would be well with us quickly I wish I could perswade men to their own good to be patient and to wait upon God suffer God to work his own work in his own way by his own means in his own time though he seem long he will come suddenly and none can hinder for it is the work of God that is now in mens handling not mans work and when all outward means and hopes fail and things seem to drive contrary to the thing we hoped then is it nearest to be done that no flesh may boast all men shall clearly see and acknowledge God alone hath done it although the horrid prophaneness of these times may bring sweeping Iudgements upon men Sword Fire Famine Pestilence all which are threatned at this day and effects of Gods anger for sin yet all the sins of the times shall not hinder Gods work of Reformation for he doth it not for mans righteousness but for his own Names sake and he delivereth a people that they may be righteous not beeause they are righteous Now in the last place it is the earnest request and desire of my heart That all good men will joyn with me to make our humble and frequent supplications to God and our earnest Petitions to the Parliament for these ensuing particulars which granted will amend all First That God will make our hearts clean and to trust in God seek his face be obedient to Parliaments submit to all just commands defend their Priviledges and uphold them to all posterity Secondly That all Members of Parliament may deny themselves seek Gods glory bonor the King study the Peoples Peace and the happiness of the Kingdom repent of their own sins covetousness oppression pride excess and the like and become examples of piety by their own practice because example is more prevalent to teach then precept Then that they will freely and cordially pass by all unkindenesses and sailing among themselves forget all and forgive one another abandon all jealousies be all of one minde love as dear brethren endeavor to keep a constant full House maintain free Elections free Debates carried on by strength of Reason sound judgement and argued without prejudice upon publique grounds waying all self-interest and by-ends This shall ever be my Supplication as many as will joyn with me shall partake of the blessing by it But if all shall refuse me thus He live and thus He dye and pray for the King and Parliament FINIS
was bad in both let 's forget it As to your Allegations against the Army I must say and do so esteem it it is a very great mercy that God preserved this Army against such a time as this when Men and Devils had combined to swallow us up at once the design hath been Two years hatching the solicitous Petitions for speedy Disbanding of the Army was one branch of it The Enemy was confident of success nothing but the Lord Fairfax Army obstructed Let England bless God that the Lord Fairfax had now an Army ready and that the Army notwithstanding so much discouragement so freely and gallantly adventured their dearest lives to defend us Be grateful to the Army they are our defence let them be still owned for our Army willingly till the Enemy be secured fear them not they will not disturb the Parliament nor the City but defend both nor will they change Laws nor tolerate Heresie nor awe the City I have fear'd it as others but now believe the contrary possibly they may desire a lawful moderation between rigid penalty to such as are truly conscientious loose Liberty in such as hold unsound Doctrines what they have done amiss they l do no more Once have I spoken saith holy Job but will not answer yea twice but will not proceed any farther This I say for the Army really 1 Sam. 15.22 Verse 23. Now give me leave a word to the Army To obey is better then the fat of Lambs Obedience is to be preferred before Sacrifice and Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft Soldiers though noble are but Servants to them that imploy them they are to defend them and offend the Enemy not to rule the Common-weal nor settle the Government of Christs Church Christ hath appointed others for that office nor will Jesus Christ own such a Government as shall be set up by Policy juggling and carnal devices God needs not mans lye nor will he prosper that thing to a good man though the thing be good in it self that is gotten by deceit I pray tell me if I should tell you I am journeying into the North from London to Barwick and you see me go forward in a way to the South would you not be jealous that I meant not as I said Actions speak better truths then protestations I have also a word to say to my neighbor-counties Kent Essex Sussex Surrey and Middlesex I have seen your Names to a Declaration and several Letters written to several Towns Cities and particular men in the North and Northwest perswading upon your strength and example to Insurrection Treachery and horrid Disobedience But I hope it was not your own hands nor with your hearts but theirs that have seduced you fooled you and in the nick of time by your examples would have seduced the whole Kingdom I mean old Courtiers Monopolizers Tobacco-men and Cavaliers who at this day by all kinde of fraud and force seek to make up an Army to destroy the kingdom notwithstanding they know a Treaty is resolved on and preparing with all speed both Honorable and Safe But the kingdom by Gods providence have been wiser then to destroy themselves as you have done yet if any had been as bad as you they might have had better plea for it then you for all parts of the kingdom have suffered much you nothing they have been plundred of all driven from their habitations lyen wallowing in their bloods while you were in safety under the Parliaments wing injoyed your Trade your rich crops your lands fully stockt you bought cheap and sold dear that ye grew rich and were waxen fat then like Jeshurun you kicked against God and your friends that fed you associated with your Enemies that would destroy you and brought the Sword to your own doors yea into your bowels I pity your folly and pray God you may be sensible of it and be warned for after time Now I would conclude my whole Message to all honest English men whether upon the Land or in Ships Let not jealousie grow among you forget what is past let not friends become Enemies labor to be all of one minde and love one another be gentle courteous peaceable do good to all do injury to none joyn as one against the cōmon Enemy pray to God earnestly to change the Kings heart and make the Parliament to agree in one minde that God may accept both and that there may be a happy composure of things between the King and his people that he may inherit his throne with all Honor and the people every one sit under their own vine in peace and content In the mean time let none be so foolish as to think by destroying the Parliament they can have the least ease of any burthen task or other pressure for if the King come upon such terms as to be brought in by an army of Cavaliers your burthens will be greatly increased for they will exact all sums of money borrowed by the King or by any for him in any other Kingdoms or what loss any of their friends so called have sustained or what arrears are due to any of their Soldiers and all that the Queen hath borrowed in France Holland Denmark c. must be made good out of your Estates Besides your Freedoms Liberties will be lost for ever and a toleration of Popery must be of necessity granted His Majesty cannot deny that they will have it for therefore the papists in all parts ingaged in this War and lent great sums of mony and owe vasts sums to the Catholicks beyond the Seas all which you must pay Nor shal you be able to help your selves a continued army will be kept to awe you the Subject must be disarmed and no ammunition to be had but by Ticket Then will the people mourn curse themselves and tear their hair when too late without remedy cry out of their misery and bewail their eternal Slavery brought upon themselves their children and childrens children to lasting ages I onely inminde you of these things as Samuel did the people when they impatiently asked a King before Gods time was to give a King to them he told them what they should suffer I do the same to you not to disswade you from the King but to perswade you for your good and the Kings honor to stay Gods time and in the interim beg a new heart of God for the King such as David had God hath promised to give it Supplicate the Parliament with all humility speak plainly as to your Grievances as free men but honor and maintain the Priviledges of Parliament as your Freehold your Estate your Lives for it is more to you then all enthral not your selves and God will not enthral you He that hath been with you will not forsake you except you forsake him Do not tempt God God is doubtless working a wonderful work at this time in the world greater then that of bringing Israel out of Egypt