- -- -------- -- ---- ------- Book VI. JLro~tug unto jl~fu.s'. Chap. 1. Sett. 3· 58• ------~- yet in refpe<'t of the voyce of thunders whicq attended on it; thus thunder is often called thevuyce of G•d, And the VO)'Ce of hi< exee/lency, Job 37· 4) 5· Pfalm 29. 3, 4, • 5,6,7,8·9· 3 . The Lord lldl defcend with the Trump of God. Such avoy~e was ufed alfo at the giving of the Law, Exod. 19. 16. and Exod. 20. 18. and fo 1t will be now when men are called to account for the keeping or breaking of it. For the underflanding of . this, our !aft Tranllation tells us, that Chriff jha/1 fend his Angels with the greatf•und Matth. •4·3'· of aTrumpet- but in four Greek copies, as Be.wconfeffeth, as alfo in the Hebrew Gofpel of Matthew.' and in the Vulgar, and in the margenc of our !aft Trantlation, it is re-Jd, that Chriff {hail fond his Angels wi rh a Trumpet, andagreAt voyce. And fo the latter words are exegetical, q. d. with a Tru,.ptt, that is, with a grrllt voyce, lik§ the 'IJoyce of aTrmnper ; f~ that this reading very probably pr_oves, that the !aft Trumpet is to be taken mctaphoncally. Forthe more full confirmauon whereof I a,gue thus; · when any thing is afcribed to the Angels wliich i• not fuitable to their fpiricual nature; and which they have no need of for the work they are about, it is to be taken metaphorically; un!efs the context or fome other Scripture force us tp a proper acceptati– on; but amaterial Trumpet of Silver, Brafs, or the like metal, is not fuitable to the fpiritual nature of the Angels ; neither have they need of fuch a Trumpet for pro– ,Pucing a great found in the Air; it is evident that without a Trumpet they can l!lake a great found like the noife of aTrumpet; and there is nothing at all in the Scriptures ~hat will force us, or probably lead us to a proper acceptation of the word; add yet .' to what bath been faid, that fometimes a great voyce is fet out by the fimilirude of a Trumpet; !heard behind meagrearvoyce, a<of "Trumpet, Rev. z. IO. and th• jirfl-· 1 VO)'CC which I heard, WM M it were of aTrumpet, Rev. f. 1. · · But why is this found as of aTrumpet, called the Trumpet of God? I anfwer, for 1 , the grearnefs of it; for irs ufual in the Hebrew language for the feuing forth of great– ' nefs, excellency, or fuperlativenefs of a thing, to add the name of G•dto the word, whereby the thing is lignified; as Gen.23.6. A Princ_e of God, (i.e.) a"t.-l!ghty ~Prince, Gen. JO. 8. With the wreftlings •f (Jod, (i.e.) With great wrefHings, Pf£1m 36. 6. M•~tntains of God (i.e.) Great·Mountaios, Pfal. Sq. IO, Cetl•rs ofGod (i.e.) very high Cedars. So here, the Tmmp of G•d (i.e.) A very great found, like the found of a Trumpet. It ?s faid in the Law, there were thunder I, and lightnings, Antl" Exod. 19· I6. ~hick_cl.ud upon the Mo1mt, a•d the voyce of the Tmmpa exceeding IDJ<d, fo that all the people thM w.u in the camp mmbled ; and if the-re was trembling at the giving of rhe Law, oh what trembling will be at the general AillZcf, when finners IJJa!l be condemned for breaking of it? 3· No fooner the IJJOut made, but the Saints arife; it is true, the Saints that are alive m:ed no relurre<'tion, but upon them will this Trumper have its .effe<'t. Something like death !hall ceaze upon them, and they llJa!rbe changed. • The order of this is given inbyth< -Apo!\lefrom rheLord; Thiswef~y_untoyottby the Word of our Lord, that •Th~l:s: we whtch n.re alive. and remam #.?to the commg of the Lord, jhaa not prevent them which , 7 .ere lljleep, for the Lord himfelf jha/1 defcend from Heaven with aJliom, with the 'IJ•yce df rhe Archangel, and with the Trump of G•d, and the dead in Chriff Jhall rife jirff; then we whteh are nli.ve and remain ]hall be caught up together with them into the clouds. The firf\ that Onll be called are the Salms that lleep, and then the Saints that are alive !hall be immediately changed. Oh what aday will this be? what a ftrange fight to fee aU the dead ever fince the beginning of the World rife out of their graves?'for the Wicked I believe they fhall rife like Toads from their holes ina glack, fwarthy, ugly colour : Aqueflion is omoRgit the Schools, whether Repr;>bates fhall rife again with all theJr ~etormities which they had in this life? as fome of tbem beins blind. halt, lan~e. matmed, deaf, dumb, &c. Whether now they fhall rife in the felf-fame condttton? for my parr I conceive that whereas God the Author of nature, will at that day reftore h~mane nature, that therefore there Otall be no defe<'ts of -natural parts; cerra1nly nothwg O!l!l be wanting in the dall1ned, which may impede .the fenfe of torment in any part; now a defeCt of any member would hinder thefe univerfal t?rments .. that murt ceaze on every pare of the bodies of the damned in Hell; r.1e1r bod1es therefore !hall be whole , onely \he bo<hes of fuch lllall be foul, ugly, heavy, lumpiOt bodies, as oppofed_ to the glorious qualities of the bodies of Slims; why, what bodies ( you will fay) have they ? I anfwer , glorious bodies : no fooner !hall,the bodies o~ the Saints ~ri~e, but they fhall exceed :v--ith fing:llar qualmes;
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