i,s chap. 7 An Expofstien upon the Book o f I O B. Verf. i©. in the miaï'¡t of thee, for thorn art a Ji<ff_ntcked peoplo, le4 I con.. fume thee in the may. Ttte Text faith , witch the people heard Ibis evil tidingt , they mourned, and roman did put upon him htù ernamtnta. Why , what was it that troubled them ? was it that Idle Angel is font not to conduct them ro Carman ? That was told them ( Chap. a 3, 20. ) and they well fatis-fled with it Behold, I fend an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. I anfwcr , The Angel in the 2.3. Chapter is by all ( that I meet with ) agreed tò be the Lord jefus Chrift, the great Angel of the Covenant; but the An- gel, Chap. 3 3. appears to be a created Angel and rather threat- ned them, then promifed them. And though the L )rd is plea`,ed ro lignif3e a reafon of fending this Angel in favour to chem,namely, leaf} he himjelf confems them in the ray, for their fiubbcrnnef, Yet the people :.re not facisfaed with this tidings ; [lately they thought if the Lord was not able to bear their provocations,much lets could an Angel , and therefore if he fhould fend an Angel , and withdraw his own prefence from them , they muff perifh A meer Angel could not have born their manners as the Lord did ; receiving provocations from them,and continuing preferva. tinsover them chofe.forty years. It is yet further obfervablc , that the Hebrew is not only fingular , but a particular : 1 he preferver of Adam, or, of that man, whichh ach tome fpeciality in it , tranflate ingencral, the preferver of men, but the preferver of man, or of that man, is more emphatical. God preferveth all, but he bath a fpe- cial eye of prefervation upon Tome, Thou preferveft man and beaft, faith the Ffalmifl, the beafls of the earth arepreferved, but man is preferved more : And among men, fume are more preferved. It is a truth , the great God preferveth his greatefl enemies ; a wicked man were not able to lift up a hand or a tongue againft him, if God did not uphold him : but God is the fpecial prefer- ver of that man, that is, the preferver of a godly man, or of godly men. As Chtill is i he Saviour of all men, bat efpecially o! thole thatbe- lieve ; fo the preferver ofall men , bat efpecially of thofo that believe; he bath a careof them,, beyond the care he bath of the world. The care which God bath of the refi 9f the world,compared with that <towards his own , is but carelcfnefs, and he ( as it were) neg- lees the whole World to look to his own people. As it ivas laid Gonffántine, that for the love-he bare toColliantinopte, he andrefsd and
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