Chap. t. Sett. 3· I.Lookmg unto 'jjefu.S'. Book VI. 579 bur they werefent abroad to minifler to the Saints and people ~f God; To which ofHeb. 1 ,, 3, 1 ~. the .Angels faid he at any r.me, fit on my rtght hand, unt<ll I mnks rhme enemm thy foot-ftool? are they not all minifiring fPiri~s, font fortk to minifterfor rhe'!', who {hall bt heirs of falvation ? Now accordmg ro theJr oifice Chrtfl puts them upon tmploymenr at this day. q. d. 0 my .Angels! you that wait npon me, that excel;,. jlrengrh, that do my rra1.10po. com-nandments, and hearksn to the voice of my Word: go your ways now into all the four Pral. so. 5· winds of the world, gather all my Saints together untome, th.Je that have made acovenant with me by facrifice; fearch into all the dujls •f the earth, and leave not behind one d11ff that belongs unto any Saint ; fearch into the bottom of the Sea; (ee wh.<t becomes of thofe dronmed bodies of m}' dear ones; if either worms have eaten thofe in grorves, Orftfhe.r have devoured them in the~deep, wky now reftore th~m 1 am not I tU able to recover them, as I wM to creaie them ? ~~it not Meafiefor me toraifo the dead, tiU tomaks Hu.11en, and Earth, and allof nothing? go then, and garh<r together all :hofe diej}s, andlet every duff be br•ught home to its own proper body, and compaa tho(e dufls M {oft M they are into {olrd bones; and prophejie upon tbofebones, andfay unto them, 0 ye drybdnes, hear the Word of the Lord; thm faith tiJe Lord, behold I will caufe breath toenter intoyou, tmd ye jh41/livc; and I will lay Ezek. 37-4,5, finen1J up~nyoH, and cover yo1s with skjn, and put breath in )'OH:~ and )'CJha!llive, andye 6 • Jh~ll '11o>V th.zt I am the Lord; why thi& is my Wt/l and pi<afure, t1nd therefore begone, 0 my .Angels doyour office, wbt ? hwe not Tcommanded you? ;o. The mi,fion, or commiffion, or difmillion given, the Angels, fwifr me!fengors of his will fall on the execution; and to that purpofe immediately they found the Trum- ~ r. . p•t; fo it follows, .And he{hallfend hi< .A 1gcls with a great found of a Trumpet. Here , 1 ~n/lmu~t~ is the manner of their million ; they go, and as they go they give a Owut ; what this ,;,·:. ~~t :x lhout is, or how it is 1>11ade, is a Curious queftion, and fers many wit's on work,, in aih"~ Doctor thi< Scriprure it is fer out by the found of a Tru,.pet; * Now fo;ne would have it S!mr , who to be a material Trumpet, becaufe the Scripturos frequently call it a Trumpet; ratth bl fee He Jhall (end his .Angels lYith the fe~<nd of a Trumpet, faith Chrift; and in a mo- ~::; ra'k'e '';~ mem, in the twincb~ing of an eye, at the laff Trump we jhall be changed (faith Patd) ~ropcrly,&c. for the Trumpet plAit found, and the dead fl~o<ll be rai(td. .And the Lord himfeif jhall rornt!ius a la– defcend from Heaven with a .Jlo•ut, and with the voyce of the Archangel, and with ptde. h the Trumpet of God: but whether this Trumpet fhall be of Silver, or ofBrafs, or, ~~~ ' 2 4-3'· of the Air, or of the Cloud and Meteors ':"hereon Chrifl rides., they cannot 1 Th~r.'~: :~: agree : * others more prob~bly look upon tbts Trumpet as nothtng elfe but a ~ Pircator, metaphor; or a found formed in the Air, like the found of a Trumpet. A voice Eflius, Areri– it is without all conrroverlie; and metaphorically it may be called a Trumpet us & alu [ere both from the clearnefs and greatnefs of the found i fo loud lhall it be, tha~ omr.ts. 'twill pierce int<i rhe ears of the dead in their graves; it will jhake the World, cui om•ia obe– rcnd the Ro,kf, brc.k.. t"- Mountains, dijfolve the bonds of Death, b11rff down the diunttl•m;nc., tates of He!/, and unite all fPirits t• their o;vn Bodies. An horrible terrible voice 01all ~':j·"' fondJt, it be: Bur ho~v lllould Angds wbo are .Spirits make a voice? by a collilion of the ~:.'a,:t!~K: Atr wluch rhe Angels can move at rhetr pleafure.; and who can tell , fay tome , iu 1 cor. 1 5• but there may ue lome new creited inftrument Trumpet-like; ad•pred for rhe Angel!, at the fides of which by a force and collilion of the Air this great ll10ur may be, to convene all the World? or who knows (fay others ) but that the " ' Lord Jefm may fill the Angels, even as Trumpets are filled with a loud bl~£1:, and that through dwn thi• loud bla£1: O~all come 'ru01ing like a mighty wind upon the deod Saints , and fo awaken their bodies om of the !fuft I we all know this was ufual in all the Jews folemnities to convene the people by the found of a Trumpet, ll.nd the Lord fpake unto .lvfo[es, faying, .lvfak§ thee two Trumpets of Numb. Io. r, fllver, --- Th•t thou mayjl ufe them for the calling of the Ajfembly; --.-- .Ar1d 2, l• 9· when tho11 Jha!t blow them, .a the .Ajfcmbly jlrall ajfcmble themjelves. .Anq if ye go to War, then ye jl1al~ blow an alarme 1vith the Trumpets ; and in the fame way (try they) Chnfl now wtll convene all the World with the found of a Trumpet, or wit[t the found of fome fuch inf!rumem of divine power and ,·errue, whereby the dead 11~>11 be ratfed,. a.nd thetr bodies and fouls re-united. Amidft allthofe Authors, if I may dehver my opmwn; I fuppofe the T<Kt that will dear all to us above all rhar is written, is that of I Thejfaloni•n• +· 16, For the Lord himfelf {hall defcend fri>m 1 Tlaef. -!· t1• h'a·ven tvithn jhottt, with the voice of the .Archangel, and with the Trmnpet of God. Give m~ leave to tnlt!l on tr, tlm 1•/e may come up yet ro a more full and perfeCl: knoi>'Jledge of tlus paiTJge. In th~fe ·vords is Ot~wed, or held forth the coming of Chrift in three Q.q q 2 - particulars:
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