Chap. ;. anE;rpoktion upon the Book of J o s; Verf. t 5. bufhes. Thus you fee how properly and fitly the Rainbow is cal- led The fhining ofthe light of his Cloud, as alto what fgnihcations of favour are difcernable in ir. From this expiication of the words, we may note ; Fi ft , 4f er troubles andhorses, Clod will give his peoplecom- forts and calmer. Ile caufeth the l.. ='ghtofhio Cloud to Thine. Clouds are dark thing,, bur while the Cloud. (hews Ruin, Gods light in the Cleud (hev<s faire weather. ('hat's matter of rejoycing to all that fear God, as with refpeó unto that particular Judgment of the Deluge, fo cf all evils and troubles which fall upon them in this r,o Id. Tri light fhining in the Cloud may comfort and refre(ia us in the darkest night of forrow: It is Paid ( Pfal 97.1s.) Light itforme for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart And in the 4th of the Re's', elations(which is as it were a Prologue er Preface to all the Prophefies of the dark times that ((hould comeupon the world, and over theChtch of God in this world) we find J;:fus Chrifl is reprefented with a Rainbow about him (verf. 3. ) I was in the fpirit,ardbehold aThronefet in Heaven, and one fat on the Throne, and he that fat was to lookupon like a fafper and Sardixfone, and . there was a Rainbow round about theThròne, infight like to an Pm- raid. From this Throne it is that J fus.Chrift doth,Jas I may fay, difpence all the ofwires of his Churches and people. Now though Jefus Chrifl in the providential or mediaterial government of his Churches, doth often fend Clouds upon rhem,and though Clouds and darknefs ire round about him, yet the Throne bath a Rain- bowabout it : And, why a Rainbow ? ro (hew that Jefus Chrifc is mindfall of his Churches and people, to fave them when the Ser pent calls eut \Floods to drown them. '.ris laid ( Rev :. i 2. s 5.) TheSerpent eafi out ofhis mouth water as a Flood after the Wo- man,that hemight caufe her to be carried away ofthe Flood ; but Jefus Chrifl that fitreth upon the Throne, Math it Rainbow about him, which gives affurance that the Floods fhall not quite over- whelme the Church, fhe (hall be delivered, though it be in a Wildernefs, from tholemighty water-floods of perfecution rai- fed and caufed by the Serpent and his feed a,ainfi the feed ()f,rhe Woman , or aainft the Woman and her feed. Though Chrifl may fufer great Floods of forrow and tribulation to be powred Aaaa2. upon 541
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