522 The fecond Booke ofDiuinitie, CHAP. 9, 0.141__-_- b Feel^'.q.;In, i Gen.32.I,:. k Luke 2.13. I Pfal.8F.17. m HeG.I2.22. nDan.7.rO. o 1. Kings 6.1f, 16,17. uen; and therefore haue all aduantages to doe vs good. Seuenthly, By the multitude and number ofholyArt- gels, which maketh not a little for the firengtheningof our Faith : for even amongmen, A h threefoldcord unot eafrly 6rok.en. When i Jacob weflt on his way , to re- turne into his Countrey, as God had commanded him, the Angels of God met him; cuen a whole Arnie. and troopeofAngels , in fo much as hee called the name of . the place, c.M4cbanaima, a paire of Armies , his ovvne and the Angels Arnie. So ink Luke it is faid,that there MUwith the .Shepbeards a multitudeofan heavenly Arnnie. In the 1 falmes They are namedmany thoufands ofr/In- gels. And to the in Hebrewes,Myriades (that is,ten thou- fands)ofAngels. n DA N I E L alfo reckoneth a aloo and thousand landing before the Ancient of dayes...By this Ar- gument o Elifha the man of God incourageth his Ser- uant , whenPeeing the Companies and troopes of men that compaffed theCitie, and Horfès and Chariots, hee cryedout, Alas cfrtaffer , what Aare doe ? Towhom EL I s H A fail, Feare not : for there bee wee withvi then are with them.Then praying to I E H o v AH,th° Seru< nts eyes were opened , and bee faw the Mountaincs were full with Herres, and Chariots offire round about E L I s H A. And our Sauiour Chris}by the fame argumene {heweth, how able he had bcene to free himfelfe from the hands of his' enemies : P Could net I prayvntemy Father,andhe would lineme more then twelue LegionsofAngeli ? Eightly and laftly, by their willir;gncüe veto this Service , declared for the molt part by three circum- fiances. Firs},they Band continually inGods prefence , wag- ting, as it were, for a Commiflion from him to doe vs good, c.í`1'íatt.18.1 o. Their Angelsfee alwayes the faceof nsj Fatherwhich is inHeaven. Secondly , They are glad and reioyce at the goodof his Saints. SoLike z, 13, 14. they declare themfelues not p Mitt. 24,13.
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