Soo Verf. a 5. an E.vp-Trionupon the Book of Jos. Chap. 37. had Paid , Gods cartfing the light of his Cloud tothine, andhis bal. lancing the Cl rids, are oconderfull workr, even the wonderfodi works of himwhois perfètl in knowledge ; and tell me job, Theft thou know theft things ? Doeft thou know when C3oddifpoJed them, 'And canfed the light of his Cloud toThine? We muff here repeat the former ,ueflicn; and, Does these knowwhen God casefed.the light ofhis Closed tofhane?yea, tome read this latter part of the verfe in dependance upon the former;Doeff thouknowwhen Godd:fpsfed there,hat he might taufe the light ofhis Cloud to !hint ? But I rather take it asa diffinti uef ion.ln which, conder,he Moth not fay , That he may cattle the light ofhis Sun,, but of his Cloud,to fsine, Tis theSun properly that fiaineth,Clouds do not : The Sun is`the Candle of the World, the receptacle and wild of light.. Clouds are but veffels or receptacles of water, . they are not properly diaphanous, buropacous, orgrofle,rhick. bodyes.: How then is it here Paid, Ile canfeth the light of his Cloud tothine ? Ianfaver , The Cloud doth not Thine byany con- natural or intrinfick lighr, but by that which is adventitious, and accidental toit. Andy 1/Vrta Via} There is more inthat word thine, than the ordinary flaining of Sl,lcndott it- the Sun; the Hebrew root fignifies not only to fhine, but to iarau.. break forth with !lining in fume very illu(rictîs manner)Vea.3 3. 2. ) The Lord camefrom Sinai, and rote up from Seine unto them,. he fhined forth from Mount `Karat,. Alofts carrieth a metaphor or borrowed fpeech quire through the verfe,reprre+entingGodas the Sun f}iining forth and (hewing himfelf to the people of Ifrael, in three feveral places, &I, it were in as many iitiina degrees of glorious manifefaation. His glory fhined full fromMount Sinai, where he gave the Lie/. Secondly, from Mount Stir or Edom, where ( as I may fay) he gave the Go pel, commanding c;iTtofes to make a Brazen Se. pen-, that they who looked on it might be . cured of thepoyfouous wounds given them by the fiery Serpents, (Nsamb za.) An illuatioos type of Chritf (fob. 3. a4.) Thi d- y, the glory of the Lord fhined from Mount Paran, where Mo- fes,by command from the Lord,made repetition of the Law, ad- ding fundry Evangelical explications of it. In all which the'Lo-d dlained forth with a glorious brightnef'.s, infinitely exceeding that tithe Sun. acid in three of his Pfaims fpeaki sg of the wonder- fui t
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