4oo Book. IV. guard, the ble!fed Angels keep tbei~ facred ihttion and rendezvouz wherefoever it is. Now that this is Chrifts f pecial ptefence it will appear in fundry texts. ' I. When J-acob faw that vifion in Bethel, oF the ladder re~tcbing fro~ earth to.heaven, and ~fthe Angels ofGod afcending and defcendtng ?pon It, fur ely (fa1th [acob) t?e Lord io in this place, Gen.~S.r6, 17 and I Jweh~ It not; anhd hbe waoh· afihra~~~ ,a;Gdfldatd, hdow dreadful is this place ? t u u non; ot er ut t e ou1 c o 1 o , an thu iJ the gate of heaven; he c~lls It Gods houfe, whe~e God and his holy Angels, who are of Jm houfhold are efpec1ally prefent · and he calls it the gate of heaven, heavens Guild-hall, he.avens'court, namely becaufe oft~e Angels; for the gate, Gmld-hall, or Court was wont to be the judgement-hall, and ~he place where Kings and Senatours ufed to G.t, attended by the1r guard and Minifters. .The c a/dec addeth, this is no common,or private place, but a place wherein God takfth plea[ure, and over againft thu ;lace isthegate of heaven. · AC1:.7.W Gal. 3• 19. Heb, 3, z. 2 • When the Lord defcended upon mount Sinai co givethe Ia!V, fome place the fpecification of Gods prefence in the Angels, to which purpofe are alleadged thefe texts, who have received the · law by the dijpo(ztion of ~ngels' and have not k§pt it : and ag_aine, the law wao orda;ned by Angels in the hand ofa Mediatour. Againe, the Apoftlecalls the law, the word fPo/zt:n of Angels. I bave already delivered my thoughts concerhmg thefe Angels. but fome (I fay) c~nclude from. hence, that .the fp~cial prefeP.~e ofthe divine M:qefty conG.O:s mthe encampmg of h1s facred retmue, the bleffed Angel-s; for that the Lord of himfelfc, who filleth heaven and earth could not defcend, or be mone place more then another. there's yet another text very pertinent to this. And he Deut• B· 1 • J11id 'the Lord carne from Sinai, and rofe up from Stir unto them he jhined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thoufandt o]hu Saints, from hi.f right hand_ wen~ a fiery l~w for the_m_: the words tranflated ten'tboufands of hu Samts, are In the Ongmal ten thou11.1 68 - Jands offanEI:ity, or holy ten thoufands, or holy miriads, which in · la • ,I 7 • my apprehenG.on points to the Angels, . rather then his Saints· and the P[a!mift puts it out of queHion, the chariots ofGodar; twemy thoufand, even thoufands of Angels, the LQrd is among them, ao in Sinai in the holy plaee. 3 . Aft~r the law given, this preCence ofGod was fixed to the · Temple,
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