684 Chap. 25. .bn Expoficion open the Took of J o a. VerCz', out his feare, and make every mañ\fall and tremble before him. When many armed meat carne to tak kChrift, Chrift fent our- a- fore upon them, fo that they went bac ì andandfell to the ground- ( 7oh. t8. 6 ) Chrift gave them never an angry word, he only confefld himlc(fe to be the man they fought for; 1am he ; and they were as men allorifhed with feare ; Chrift in (peaking thole words did only let, out a little rayor beame ofhis Diety, and this. {truck them down. Owhat fear will Chritt fend out when he- eometh to judge the world, who could fend forth fùch a feare,, while he ye. lded himfelfe up to be udged and condemned by the world. D;minion andfears are with him. 1;1c canmake all afraid, and yet, as it followetl ., He makethpeace ishid high places. This latter part of the verle, is a continued defcription of the irrelïk:ble power of God (as all agree) ira making peace, yet there is fcme difference that fhould be meant by thehigh places, where 7dwaktthpeace ; He »taketb peace in his-high places. Fir*, Many underftard there high placer, to be the Heavens,' or (as the Scripture fpeaketh ) the Heft ofHeave,Sunne,Moon, and Starres ; There or among them peace is made through the power of God, keeping them in or to order,that is, in their dueft motions. The heavenly bodies are in continual( ttrongmotion, and they are kept ¡n their motion by the power ofGod. The Scrnne, Moore, and Starres, are mighty bodies, and they are in a perpetual,career,yet they ;uftle not oneagainft another,nor doe they fall fowle upon oneanother. In this fence. it may befaid; that God maketh peace among them ; They all according to his appoyntmcnt keepe their places, and*irte not out of theirowns' fpheares Noman could ever keepe his Watch or Clock in fuel' order as God keepes the Sunne. Secondly, By thefe high places, others underffand that which is fomewhat lower ; not Sunne, Moone, andStarres, but the fe- wrrall regions of the ayre; God.makes peace in thofe high places, a,here ftormes andtempefis and all manner of fiery impreffions itre bred and wrought. Naturalifts fay, that the fecond regionof the ayre is both the fhop where thofe dreadful! inftruments of warre, Thunder, lightning, hayle, (now, are formed, as alto the tyre boufe, where, they are layd up; yet. even in chofe high places, God.
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