5So Book VI. JLroi\tng unto jjdus. ------ particulars ; with a fl,om, rrith a VO)'Ct; and with a Tmmpet; feme think-tlli~-;;; b~ • one and the f~me fet out in variety of exprefsions; but I am of another mind. It is agreed by moft that the tranfaclions at the giving of the Law on Mount Sinai, were are– prefemation.of the proceedings whic.h lhall be at the great day of judgment; now in that tranfadron we read of a three-fold vorce, The vcryce of God, the vo)'cs of thundtr, andthevoyceof .. Trumpet, ( Exod. I9- I6. compared with Exod.2o. t.) and accor– dingly we find the Apoftle fpe~king of a three-fold voyce, Of the voyce of Chriff, of the voyce of th1mde~, and of the voyce of a Trumpet . I. Th~ L?,rd hrmfelf l11all defcend with _aJhout : Aritu Momamu, and the vulgar tranllare !t with.a command; Lyra and others think this to be the voyce of Chrifi him– John n. 4a. [elf,. faywg, wnh a loud voyce, Arifeye dead, and~ome to judgment. Thus Jefus cry– ed wnh a loud voyce, Laz.arm come forth; and with fuch avoyce will he call on the John 5· 25. dead at the laft day. So much Chrift himfelf hath taught u>; The hour h coming, and now u, whm the dead {loall hMr the voyce of the Son of God, and they that hear ]hall live. The hour is, becaufe by his voyce he raifed fome at his firft coming: and the hour is coming, becaufe in the like manner he will raife up all men at the lafi day; M 11 rJohn 5• 2a. veil not at tht4 (faith Chrift) for the hour u comzng, in the_which all that are itz the graves ]hall hear hu voyce, attdthey {hAll comeforth. As at tbe Creauon of the World, he faid, Let there be litht, and there wMiight; foatthedilfolutionofthe World, he will fay, Let the dead arife, lrt the Sea give Hp the dead that are in it, and death and H ell deliver up the dead which are in them; and ie will befo· 2. The Lord ll1all defcend with the voyce of the A"h"ngel. Two quefiions here.; I. Who is this Archangel? 2. What is this voyce? Revel. 4·.S• Rev. 5· 6. Zach. 4· 10. Rev. a. 2. for the firil, fome argue this Archangel to be Gabriel, others Rarhacl, others Mi..: chael. The Jews hai·e an antient tradition, that there are feven principa Angels that mini· iler before the Throne of God, and therefore called Archangels. The Scriptures feem to fpeak much that way, calling them, fevmlamps of fire b11rning before the Throne: and feven horns, and fivm crycs of the Lamb ; and the feven Spmts of God fent forth into all the earth; andfeven eytJ of the Lord, which run to andfro through the whole earth ; and yet more plainly, [even Angels that ftand before God. Now which of thefe feven is the Archangel , here fpoken of, is hard to. determine; ondy probable it is, that all the Archangels, and all the Angels are hereby underHoo'd, as comprehended under that one; to which agrees, , Mmh. 24-. 3I .. Mr. Aynfivorth obferves , that when thing> are done by a multitude , where one is. chief, that the ~dion is frequently ~fcribed either tO the multitude, Or tO him that is chief indifferently; as rehoi~dah brought forth the Kings[on, ""d he putthe Crown upon him, 2 Kings I I. I 2. or they brought forth the Kings fon, a11d they put upon him the Crowtt, 2 Chron. 23. I I. fo David ojferedbHrnt– offerings, 2 Sam. 6. I7- or they offered burnt offerings, I Chron. 16. I. aod fo, be he]hall defcwd with the voyce of the Archangel; or he foall fend hu Angels with agreat found, Manh. 24. 3. That there are feyen principal Angels, Maller Mede affirms; and that there is one which yet eminently, is called the Archangel- fome others affirm, as among Devils, tbere Matth. 25 . 4 1. is one chief Devil, called the l'rince 'of Devils; and therefore the fire is faid to be prepared for the Devil and hi; ./1nge!J, fo from this Text of I Thef. +· I6. and of Dan. 10. 13. and of J«de ver. 9. Some probably conclude that the good Angels have a Prince, even Michael, whom Jude calls the Archangel. But of this no more; the Ciolof. 2. 1a. Lord keep me from imrnding into thofe things which I have 11ot feen .. The day it felf will difcover it, and fo I leave it, as having faid enough to fausfie the fober minded. Fonhe fecond, what is thisvoyce of the Archangel? I conceive that thereby we are to underfiand thunder : bere is ( as we have faid) amanifefi allulion to the proc~edings at the giving of the Law, nowtbe voycetherememioned, belides the voyce of Exod. '9 t6. God, and rhe voyce of a Trumpet, is the voyce of Thunder; A nd it came to pa(son -b- 20 • 1 a. 1 he third day in the morning there were thu11ders. In this fenfe fome expound thefe H• • 2 • 2 ' words of tire Apo(lle, wher~ the.Law.is faid to befPok!n by A11gels, becaufe the Angels did raife up thofe extraordinary thunders, which happily were the matters of the ar– ticubte voyce, in which the Lord fpake to !frael: or if the [aw was fpoken by Chrifi (as I have delivered my opinion elfewhere) he being the Angel of the Cove- !Ccok 3.ch.r. nanr , Mal. 3. I. A ndthe A ngel of his prcfonc~, Jfa.63.9· Yet tlus hmders nor, but § · 4• that created Angels mtghr fpeak the Law too, tf not mrefped of the arttculate l'oyce, · - · · yet
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