Chap. 33. An Expofztion upon the Book,of J o s. Verf. 22. 363 and diree}ed by God to (pare his people the Jewes, and to poure our his vengeance'upon the Egyptians, his and their enemies. For molt ufually the wicked are plagued by good Angelis, and the good,as fob in this book was, are añi&ed by evill Angelis. H.w- beit that text fay fotne (Pfal. 78.49.) leadeth us rather to be- leeve that it was an evill Angell ; He call upon them (meaning the Egyptians ) thefìerceneffeof his anger, wrath, ind-gnation, and trouble, by fending evil Angelis among them. Yet po'3ibly thole Angelis which deflroyed the Egyptians, arecalled evill Angelis, not becaufe they were fo in their nature, but becaufe they were Minifters of evill CO that hard-hearted people. Which way lower we takeit, there is a truth init applicable to the Scripture here in hand. And fo ome expound that of Solomon (Prow. 17. An evil manfeeketh only rebellion, thereforea cruel Meleager (ball befent againft him. The text may be rendred a cruel Angell, that is, anAngell with a Meffage of wrath and deftruction {hall be Pent unto him ; The Aponte ( Cor. to. to.) (peaking of thofe dreadfull judgments, which God fent upon his people the Jewes in the Wiidernefhe (buch as we are like to find in thefe Gofpeli times, ifwe provoke him,for all thofe things are Paid to havehap- pened unto them for Types or examples (verf. rt.) And there he gives us warníi ig, neither murmure ye, as force of them alfa marrase- red,andwere deflroyed of theden rayer. That is,by the Peflilence or Plague (as 'tic expreffed, Numb. 14. is, 37 .) which the Apo- file Paul calleth a defiroyer, becaufe, doubtiefs it was executed byTome invifible defiroyer, or Angeli. The Devill, whom john inthe revelation (Chap. 9. It.) cal leth, the.AnQellofthe bot- tomlef fepit, is there allo let to-th by this Title, whilename in the Hebrew tongue i c Abaddon, but in the Greehtonóue hath his name Apollyon. The Devil( is the Apollyon, the Abaddon, both which fignifie a defiroyer ; yea the Devil' ( Heb.z.14.)'islaid to have the power of death, as if he were let over that fad work, and Lord- ed it over dyingmen ; yet (lerus know toour cornfo t) the De- vitt bath not the power of death as a Lord, or Judge,but only as an Executioner ; thus the rick mangy life may be faid todraw nigh to the detiroyer, that is to the deft . paying Angell, or to the meffen- get of death. Thirdly, we may take the deftróyers,notfor perlons lent tode- firoy, but for difeafes and ficknefl'es ; thefe are defiroyers. And A a a z thus
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