416 Verf. 4. an E.vpoftion apetrtbe Boo!¿ of 1 E ti. Chap. ;7. 4.Iumultuans. Fourthly, Teere is 4 rasxdling Thunder. We fometimes hear only a rulrìng in the clouds, nt, crack of Thunder breaking ou+. g liugient. &c. Fifthly, There is a roaring Thunder, as this text fpeakes,a voice Garca;ss Me- roareth. teorolog. Sixthly, There is awhifpering T'nundei-, I maycall k a kind of Talent o- fiill- voyced Thunder ; Fotfib!y that was filch fpoken of ( 1 Kings 19. r 2.) After the fir e, a ¡NI frnllvoice. As alto that when Jefus Chritt was baptized by john in fordol (c vTatth. 3. I .) e/ind lo, a voice frombeaver, faying, 7 hie is my beloved Son, in Whom I arcs well.pleafed ; 'Tis conceived, that voce came in a fiill titi-riifpering Thunder. Such doubtlefs was that Thunder (John 12. z8, 29.) whenChrift prayed, Father,gloriflc thy11Tame;then same there a voicefrom heaven, faying, l have both glorified it, and will glorifie it aáain. At the hearing of this voice, thepeople that flood by, fetid that It thundred, ethers faid, that an Angel fpake to him. This voice was an articulate found coming with the Thun- der ; and the Hebrew word which we commonly tranflate voyces, 1 gnifierh thunder. The Jewifh Writers tell us that (Bath col) the daughter ofvoice (which they reckon the only wayof divine re- velation, left them after the Babylonifh Captivity) was the will of Cod made knowrí to them immediately from heaven by this fort of Thunder. Thùnders andvoyces are often joyaaed in the Book of th'e Revelations ( Chap. 4. S. chap. S. S.) implying, the revela- tion of thofe prophetick wonders, wasmade by Voycesaccompa- mied wiihThunder. And thus thofe two texts which feem contradi.. &ory may be reconciled,A/ .9.7. it is faid,Yheywho journied with Paul flood fpeechle js hearingavoice .Bur(Aè. z2.9.)Pau faith,Tber jaw indeed the light and were afraid, but they heard not the voiceof him that (peke to me. The voice which they heard in the 9th Chapter was the voice of Thunder , and the voicewhich they did not hear the zad,was the diflindt articulatevoice of Chrifl,faying, Saul, Saul, why, perfecutef thou me t From this confiderarion of Gods g-adual Cpeakirg to us in the Clouds, we may be led to confider how g-adually he (peaks to us in the Miniflry of his Word ; there he fpeaks fometime.s whifper- ingly, gently, he at firfl a rakens the ear a little, but at fall he roareth with hisvoice. If we will not hear, he bath louder and louder voices, which we f} ail hear whether we will or no. At the giving of the Law (Exod. 19. 19.) The voice of the trumpet founded
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