0 After that Jaakob by Gods commandement {Gen. 46,3}, had broght his familie into Egypt, where they remained for the space of foue hundreth yeres, and of seuenty persones grewe to an infinite nomber, so that the King and the countrey grudged and endeuored bothe by tyrannie and cruel slauery to suppresse them: the Lord according to his promes {Gen. 15,4} had compassion of his Church, & deliuered them, but plagued their enemies in moste strange and sundry sortes. And the more that the tyrannie of the wicked enraged against his Church, the more did his heauy judgements increase against them, til Pharoah, &his armie were drowned in the same Sea, which gaue an entry and passage to the children of God. But as the ingratitude of man is great, so did thei immediatly forget Gods wonderful benefites, & albeit he had giuen them the Passeouer to be a signe & memorial of the same, yet they fel to distrust & tempted God with sundry murmurings and grudgings against him and his ministers: sometime moued with ambition, sometime for lack of drincke or meate to content their lustes, sometime by idolatrie or suche like. Wherefore God visited them with sharpe roddes and plagues that by his correction thei might seke to him for remedy against his scourges & earnestly repent them for their rebellion & wickednes. And because God loueth them to the end, whome he hathe once begonne to loue, he punished them not according to their desertes, but dealt with them in great mercies and euer with newe benefites labored to ouercome their malice: for he stil gouerned them and gaue them his worde & Law, bothe concerning the manner of seruing him, & also the forme of judgements and ciuil policie to the intent that thei shulde not serue God after their owne inuentions, but according to that ordre which his heauenlie wisdome had appointed.