IOl8 Book V. Lo~king unto !fe{ru. Chap.z.Secr.z Archflngel, and with the Trumpet of God :• but whether · this Trumpet {hall be of filver, o~ of brafie~ or ofthe aire or of the cloud and meteors whaeon <. hriH: rides , rhey ,. PFcator 10annot agr~: * others more prob.lbly look upon rhis TrumeftiuJ1Are;ius p~t as nothU1g elfe but~ metaphor; or a ~oui:d .fonr:ed•iu the ~ al1i fcrcom· aue; like the found of a Trumpet. A vow: It Is wuhout ali 11er. comraverGe; and metaphorically ir may be called a Trumpet both from rhe dearnefk and greame£fe of rhe [ ound ; fo loud · J11ali it be that 'r\vill pi>:.rce inro the eares cf the dead in their graves; " it willlh.lke the wor1d, rend the rocks, break the cui omnia obe-" mountaines, d!Jlolve r~e_bon<;ls of 0earh, buril: ~own the gates diu1rt e'em~nta" ofheli, and ur;me all fpmrs to theu own bomes. An hor- ~ctra • fi;indr: ~ ribie terrible voyce ihall ir be : But how /hould Aneels who afe mferos aperll, · · k . I b II . r · h h.Dh h &c. Chry:ofi. Sptms ma e a voyhce_? y aiico ll:Ondot rh e ayre w tc t e Anm1Cor. •>· gelscanmoveart etrplea ure; an w o canteH, f.1yfome, bllt there may be fome new created infirument TrHmpet-li:ke ; adapted for rhe Angels, at the fides ofwhich by a force and collilion of the aire rhis great /hout may ·be, to converie all the · world? or vvho knowes (fay orh::rs) bllt t1ur the Lord ]efus may fill the An5els, even as TrHmpers ar~ filled with a loud blait,ancl thatthrough them this loud blaH {ball come nt1l1ing 'like a miohty wind upon the dead Saims, and fo awak~n their bo- . dies ~ut of the duH:? we all know this was Hfual in all the ]ewes folemnities to convene the people by the found of a Trum_Ret. And rhe Lord fpake unto UV!ofes, raying, mafe! r,he~ two TrumNtrBJbers 10. pets of Jilver, - that thou milJft ufe them for the caf/i;gg of the 1 ' 1 ' l> Ajfembly; - ,and when thou fh~lt blow them, all the AJfembly 9 ' fovtll ajfemf.fe themfelves, And ifyego to War, then ye /hP~Ilbio,:, 1111 ala~me with the Trumpets; and in the fiu11e \VJY (fay they) Chrirt now will convene all rhe world with the found'of aTrumpet, or with the found offome fuch i:nurumenr of @ivine power and verrue, whereby the dead !bll be raifed, and their bodies . . and fouks re-united. AmidH all rhofe Aurho.:.I:s, if I may de- . liver my opinion; I fuppofe rhe Text that wil) deare all to-us 1 Tllcf. ~ · 16, above all ~~at invritten, is ~hH of 1 Thef[alonians 4. I~. For the Lord htmfelf/half defcendJrom heaven wtth a fhout, wtth tht: 'VO)CC rf the Archt~ngel, and with the Trumpet ofGod. Give me ~ · kn·e to infill on it, that we may cotne llP yet to a more full and perfeCt knowied;e ofthis pafhse. In rbefe words is {hewed, , or ' /
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