Chap. 33. An Lxpaf tiox upon tine Backe J o B. Verf. x 3. 37.2 and hearken to the voyce ofhisword. God bath thoefand thoufands ofthefefervants rniniftring to him, and ten thoefand times ten thou- fendf ending before him( Dan: 7. io. ) Some flayupon this expofition, affirming that here we are to underfïand an Angel bynature ; And hereupon ground the mini- flring of Angels to thofe who are either Fick in body, or troubled in mind. Yea the Popifh writerswould hence prove the inter- ceffion of Angels for man, and mans invocationof Angels ;; but though the expofition be granted, yet it yeildsno ground for this Inference. For what though God fhould fend an Angel to in- ftrua and comfort a lick man, will it therefore follow that the Gck matt fhould pray to him, and fo give him the honour which is due to God ? Secondly , The word is applyed in particular to yefauChrift the untreated Angel, or the creating Angel, theLord of Angels, who, by way of eminency is called, The Angel of his prefence, ( Ifa: 63. 9.) and the (Angel or) meff'enger of the Covenant,. (1Mal: 3. 1.) He alfo was that Angel of whom the Lord fpake to the children of/from/ ( Exod: 23. ao.) faying, Behold I en d en I dos quern al_ Angel before thee, tokeepe thee in the way, and to bring thee into the rèhocLoco place which I have prepared. Beware of him, end obey his voyce, hu de Ghrif® provoke him net, for he will not pardon your trenfgrcfons (if you concionetur; perfif} in therm ) for my name is inhim, that is, he is of the famePer iuern omnis nature with my felfe, and with that nature he bath myname, e- confctentia, Y J qunntusAcunp hovah. Thus forecarry it here,as if Elihe fpeciallyintended the per legeo occi- miniflratkn of Jefus Chrift, the Angel of the Covenant, to the fa vivificstur" Gck (ìnneF; for his refloring both as to thehealth of foule and bo- per quern omnit dy. 'Tis true, Jefus Chrift is thegreat Angel, or treffenger, and crux viii et libaratienisi- be primarily and chiefly doth all the bufinefs for poore (inners; tium ell. he is the rneffenger fent fromGod, and he is the interpreter ofBrent: the mind of God, hecame from thebofom of the father, and re- veales the myfteries of heaven to us by his holy Spirit.He indeed is the oneof a thonfand, the chiefefk of ten thoufand,to thew unto man his uprightnefs. Yet, Iconceive, that in this place, not the Lord of Angelsalone, but forne Angel of the Lord is agp,intend- ed. And therefore, Thirdly,Theword Angel isapplyable to every Me,{fenger;The Scripture gives it firft to thofe thatare fenr by men about any er- rand or bufnefs (.I Same ;x3. 27. ) But there Raettea refBoger Bbba, onto
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