make a few Lice, the least and meanest of the Armies of Insects
raised to afflict the _Egyptians_.

However, when he perceiv'd that God resolved to bring the _Israelites_
out, he prepar'd to attend them, to watch them, and be at Hand upon all
the wicked Occasions that might offer, as if he had been fully satisfied
such Occasions would offer, and that he should not fail to have an
Opportunity to draw them into some Snare or another, and that therefore
it was his Business not to be out of the Way, but to be ready (as we
say) to make his Market of them in the best Manner he could: How many
Ways he attempted them, nay, how many Times he conquer'd them in their
Journey, we shall see presently.

First he put them in a fright at _Baal-Zephon_, where he thought he had
drawn them into a Noose, and where he sent _Pharoah_ and his Army to
block them up between the Mountains of _Piahiroth_ and the _Red Sea_;
but there indeed _Satan_ was outwitted by _Moses_, so far as it appeared
to be a humane Action, for he little thought of their going dry footed
_thro' the Sea_, but depended upon having them all cut in Pieces the
next Morning by the _Egyptians_; an eminent Proof, _by the Way_, that
the _Devil_ has _no Knowledge of Events_, or any Insight into Futurity;
nay that he has not so much as a second Sight, or knows to Day what his
Maker intends to do to Morrow; for had _Satan_ known that God intended
to Ford them over the Sea, if he had not been able to have prevented the
Miracle, he would certainly have prevented the Escape, by sending out
_Pharoah_ and his Army time enough to have taken the Strand before them,
and so have driven them to the Necessity of travelling on Foot round the
North Point of that Sea, by the Wilderness of _Etan_, where he would
have pursu'd and harrass'd them with his Cavalry, and in all Probability
have destroy'd them: But the blind short-sighted Devil, perfectly in the
Dark, and unacquainted with Futurity, knew nothing of the Matter, was as
much deceiv'd as _Pharoah_ himself, stood still flattering himself with
the Hopes of his Booty, and the Revenge he should take upon them the
next Morning; till he saw the frighted Waves in an Uproar, and to his
utter Astonishment and Confusion saw the Passage laid open, and _Moses_
leading his vast Army in full March over the dry Space; nay even then
'tis very propable Satan did not know that if the _Egyptians_ follow'd
them, the Sea would return upon and overwhelm them; f