Natinkralla,,}47 292 Chap. 28. din Expofstion upon the bookof ] o B. Verf. 211 theWitch at Endor (i Sam. 28. ) to find out the providential wifdom or fecrets of the worksof God, theymay (as they have dealt withmany) befool and cozen you but they cannot inform you. Secondly, Others by the fowls of the ayr underfla®d, the good angel: , who may not unaptly becalledfowls of theayr, by reafon of their fwiftnefs, they being alto in that refpeet often, in propflfocano full f+ redwith wifdom and wings. ith knowledgeandare as it were & acuratè íln- Y tr.fpicio. anxtoufly prying into the my{ieries of divine wisdom (1 'Pet. 1.' 12. ) Wbicb things the Angell: defire to look into. The Angels ftoope down to look into the fecrets of the Gofpel. The word there ufed Ggnifieth a prying into that which isveiledover and hidden out of fight,: looking(as wefay)wifhly at ir,wifhing to fee the rarities of it ; And 'cis well conceived that the Apcftle Peter in that place alludeth to the Cherubims, which were formed with their eyes call down towards the Mercy-feat in the Holy of Ho- lies (Exod. 25.28, z 9, so.)as it isfaid (for there alto this word is ufed, Sohn 2e.5.) The Dìfciples who came to the Sepulchre, flopped down tofee the placewberefefue was laid. Or (which rea- ches the Emphafis of the word as well) it referrs to their gefture and pollute, who wheneitherfhewr or perfens of notepars through the area, put their heads out at a window to (Nerve what and who goes there. The Angelsbeing thus ftudioas, and as it were curious to infpeet themanifold wifdom of God revealed in the Gofpel, and receiving allo much light and information about it intentionally by that light which chines forth in the Church (as the Acoltle fpeaks, Eph. 3. r o.) Now to the intent that unto the principallities and powersin heavenly places ( That is, the holy An- gels) might bekrown by the Church the manifold wifdomof God. I fay,confidering that the Angels both by their own ítudy, as alto by that revelation know fo much of the myfterie of the Go- fpel ; They curtly know much of the miltery of providence, and yet there isa fecret in that wifdom of God, which is kept clofe from theft fowls ofthe.ayr,the Angelis.. When Chriff would thew howuncommunicable a fecret the time of the end of the world is,hefaith(0(44.24. 36.) Of that day and boor knoweth no man, no not the Angels of Heaven but my father only. Thirdly, That is not to be pafìcd by with filcnce,that in the fowic
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