Chap. 37. eonExpoftionupon the ¡ooko fJ 0: Verf, the voiceof God, and whole volces of Thunder are caned votes efGod ( Exod. q. z8. ) Pharaoh entreated M.ofes, that he 'rYc,nid entreat the Lord that there might beno more mighty threndrirga,we put in the margin, voyees of Cod, It ir, !Yid ( Exod, 20. 18.) the people taw theThundringc, the Hebrew is, voices; die meaning is, they heard the Thundrings, as if they had been fo many voices,'or they heard as it were voyces when it thundered. Thus 'cis fa id Rev. .4,5 .) cf the Throneproceeded lightnings,and thundring,r, andvoices. Again ( Chap. t o. 3.) feven thunders uttered their voyces, Hear attentively the noife ofhis voice,thar is, thenoife of of his Thunder fpeaking aloud and aloft w the air, and the found that goeth out of his mouth, The word imports fecret, filent meditation, as alloan audible Sermóm d. found by voice or words fpoken ; and it may beapplyed particu t ,Ryesrte mè- larly to that more gentle, quier,or whifpering found ofthunder, of dltatio. Serm- which I flail have occafion to fpeak further at the 4th verfe,Sotne nertt etiom fi. Thunders fpeak very loud, others give a kind of gentle found, tqficar orepro. Philofophy tells us,that this difference in thunder e.rifeth from the lttutu, dïffrrent confiitution of the clouds in which it is bred,and through v-hich it breaks. Thegrea er'may more properly be exprefled by the words in the firfi part of thisverfe, The notfe of his voice, and the lefl'er by there in the latter parr, Thefound that goeth out ofhis Toni/yawn maim genu, of mouth. cu v; r rave -.ft8 Now, Whether it be the noifeofbee voice, or a whifpering ff .cuu tt,..r,dtud found, both or either mrafi be attended; Hear attentively thefound genus eji acre, quad :repitum Thatgoeth out ofhismouth. umgil dixeriri qaw fonunr, Thunder is Paid to go out of the mouth of God,as words goout atur'ud fan;or of the mouth of man; and as men, efpecially the minds of honeil errfubitre men,are known by the words which goout of their mouths,fofsod vehernens quo maketh himfelf known to the world, or makes the wordd borh edite eoniaunt know him and fear him in hispower and greatnefs by the noifeand her rues, `&c° found of thunder, Sen.l. G. Na. t q. eI;huchargech fob to attend diligently this noife,tlois.'found,an c. 27. hecalleth it the noife ofGods voice, the found that goeth out of his mouth. L 11 Hence
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