...The Restoration was, Clarendon asserts in the same vein, "such a prodigious act of Providence as he hath scarce vouchsafed to any nation, since he led his own chosen people through the Red Sea," and was brought about "by such an extraordinary Influence of Divine Providence that there appears no...

...of Leviathan. This Restoration was not merely providential in the sense that all events were so: it was 'such a prodigious act of Providence as God hath...he led his own Chosen People through the Red Sea': 1 it was effected ' by such an extraordinary influence of divine providence, that there appears no...

...providences' which God extended to nations." The restoration of Charles II in 1660, wrote Clarendon, was 'such a prodigious act of providence, as God hath...since he led his own chosen people through the Red Sea'.40 If this typological idiom faded in the 1670s and 8os,41 it was revitalised for particular denominational...

...hopes he had, but left all men to cast about for themselves, "till they were awakened and confounded by such a prodigious act of Providence as [God] hath...he led his own chosen people through the Red Sea." (Edward Hyde, The History of the Rebellion) But I trust I shall have spoken perswasion to abundance...

...restored, without any terms or treaty, which some so much rejoiced at, and which the Lord Clarendon says, was " such a prodigious act of Providence, as God hath scarce vouchsafed to any nation, since he 1«1 his own chosen people through the Red Sen ". "The imprmions that this surprising change had made...