Chap. I .Sed. 5. Leaking unto re[tU. Book. IV. 401 Temple, and what that was, Ifoi4h defcribes thus; I Jaw alfo, . . the L ord fitting upon ll throne, high, and lifted up, and hio traine Ifa. 6 • r, ~. filled the Temple; about it flood the feraphims ; they were Gods traine, and they filled the Temple. And henc,e·Davids addreffes to God were faid to be in the prefence ofAngels ; before the gods · wilt!jing praifes to thee, ·1 will 'W?rjhip tow~rds thy holy Temple. t>;ai. uS. 1, t.: The: Septuagint tranfl<ites it thus, · sv~tvTiov "»sMv, before rhe Angels. I know in the time of the Gofpel we do not fo fix Gods prefence to our Temples, or places ofpublick aifembling for theworfhip of his ~Jame; but to our Church-aifemblies in fuch places why may we not ? were the rudiments f.lf the law worthy of an attcnda :1ce ofAngels, and are the Chu-ches of the Gofpel ddl:itute offo glorious aretinue ? did the bldfed fpirits, wait upon the typ;:s, and do they decline the office at the miniftration of the fubfi ancc: ? is the nature of man made worfe., fince the incarnation of the Sonne of God ? or have the Angels purchafed an exemption from thfir mi niftry, llnce Chrift became out brother in the flefh ? we have little reafon to think fo; the Apoftle treatmg ofa comely and decent demeanour to be obferved in Church-affemblies, and io particular of womens being cover~d, or veiled there, he enforces it from d1is prefence ofAngels; f~r this caufe ought the wgm.an to have acovering m her head; .r Cor: 1 1, ro; becaufe of the Angels, namely whtch are there prefent. Upon this ~hry. hom. 16,. ground Chryfoftome reproves the irreverent behaviour ofhis audi- zn 1 ~or. ~om. ·tory, the Church (faith he) io mt afbop ofmanuf4t1ours. or merch- 15 • zr. H' r. andi:u, but the place ofAngels, and of Archangels, the Court ofCod, and the image or reprefentment of hem.ien it felfe.-1 k_now thou Jeeft them not, but heare, and kzi9w that Angels are every where,and ejpecially in t.h!_ himfe "[God. where they att,end upon their King, and where all io filled with incorporeal powers. By this time I hope we know what is the meaning ofChrfts prefence in Church-affemblies; to wit, the prefence of his Spirit and the prefence of his ~~. . ~ And if it be fo, would not a perfwafion of this prefence of e. Chrift in our Church-alfernblies, be a fpecial rneanes or motive to bring all into order? fometirnesl wonder at the irreverent carriage offorne hearers, laughing, ta·lking, prating, fleeping, in our congregations,what is this a demeanour befeerning the prefence of Ange!s,and the Spirit'of Chrill?wouldft thou carry thy felfthus in , F ff the
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