486 ;levelatir,oftlieApecaypCe.' C n p.14, high, fignifieth certain fublimity,fuchas be Honours, Dignities, Ma- gifl=raie, Princehood, and the like, which have an high place given them amongmen, though it be not the higheft of all, feeing clouds are feated beneath Heaven. Which fignification is confirmed by that which was fpoken before of the two Prophets , Who riling again from the dead, Were carryed into Heaven by a cloud. That is, they were lift up to their due top of excellencie by thehelp of Tome Princes that wereof the inferiour fort; Chap. I t. 12. Thu. White fair and comfortable cloud, fignifieth fotne gentle, bountiful!, and profitable dominions of Princes. The certain man that fitteth !upon this cloud, Of to the Sonne of man, ií force one Prince that is placed in this high degree of dignity. The ambiguity of which phrafe, hathcarryed away force interpretators intoa wrong and un- meet opinion. It is wont ufually tobe meant of Chhift, but then the articles are prefixed, of which here is not any one. Befides, feeing this man, that is like to the Sonne ofman, dothnothing, but by the command of another, as it appeareth by the next,words, it cannot well agree to Chrift : It is a man therefore in nature and quallity like unto us, whole fhape being reprelented unto lohn, and that filch as refembled the Image of force man that was tocome, he is Paid to be like to the Sonne ofman, and that with good reafon . Thegolden CroWn. Noteth out thedignity ofa Prince,which hath a larger dominion then the Magilirate of force City ; The Aar? Sickle that is in his hand, Both (hewhis ability and readineffe to mow down the Harvet, we (hall fee the Application fl:raightwayes after tha we have opened the generali meaningof theType. Verf. 15. And another Angel. That is, one that is diverfe from the three former, and from this that fitteth upon the cloud, a fifth in number, who cotneth out ofthe Temple, being, as it is likely, a Citi- zen,Minifter,and Paftor ofthe reformed Church. His office is not fo much to reap with his own hands,as to exhort him that fittethupon the cloud to fall to fits reapingwork, and to perfwadc to it, both be- caufe hehath leave and power given him to reap ; -as alto becaufe it is the fearonable time of Harveft, Wherein the corn it ripe.Hereup- on he bids himput in his ,fickleand reap, and he telleth himwithal!, that notis the time ofHarvef,that the matter was attempted before, but without any happy ifhue, becaufe the time was not feafonable as yet ; whereas now the time was come, wherein God would pro- fper their godly endeavours. It is to be obferved, that where. as this Angell cometh forth out of the innetmoft Temple , not the
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