4.38 The Gofpel of the Feaft of Trumpets. rage their Faith in it, that they should be remembred before the Lord, andhave Succefs over their Enemies ; fometimes vifible Succefs attend - ing this Ordinance ., as in Jehofaphat's Time, 2Chron. 20. 21, 22, they founded the Trumpet, praifing the Beauty of Holinefs, and when they be. gan to Ping Praifes, the Lord fet Ambufhments againft Ammon, and I Moab, and Mount Seir, and then they were fmitten. 4. It was the Office of the Priefts tofound thefe Trumpets. As in Numb. r o. 8. The SonsofAaron the Prieft muff do it. To thew that the pub- lick Difpenfationofthe Word and Gofpel belongs to, and is intrufted chiefly with the Sons of Aaron, the Minifters of the Gofpel, they mutt found the Silver Trumpet of the Gofpel in theEars of the World. 5. The matter they were made of, force were of Silver, and force of Horn, A\'umb. 1o. i. and i Chron. 15.28. The Cornet, that is, an In- ltrument of Horn : So in that 98. Pfal. 6. with "Trumpet and found of Cornet make a joyful Noire before the Lord the King, And Rams-horns did beat down the Walls of Yericho, Jo1h. 6. If God inftitute the Rams. horns, they (hall be as powerful as the Silver Trumpets. To teach us that themeanett Gifts of any Godly Minifters, if fincere, are accepted, and may be bleffed of God for the good ofSouls, for the calling down of Prong-holds, and for Succefs and Viaory againft onr Spiritual Ene- mies Rams-horns may do it as well as Silver Trumpets. 6. Their number atftrfi was but two, Numb. 10.2. that is, for the two Sons of Aaron, Eleazar and Ithamar the Priefts, Numb. 3. q.. but ht procefs of Time David added many other mufical Inftruments, but he did it by Authority and Direaion from God. For fo was theCom- mandment of the Lord by his Prophets, 2 Chron. 29.25. t Chron. 16. 42. 2 Chron. 7.6. And in Solomon's Time we read of one hundred and twenty Priests that did found with Trumpets at the Dedication of the Temple, 2 Chron. 5.12. Alf° the Levites, which were the Singers, being arrayed in white Linnen, having Cymbals, and Pfalteries, and Harps, and with them one hundred and twenty Priefts founding with Trumpets. And thole Inftruments of Mufick which ,David made, they are called the Inftruments ofMufick of the Lord : For he made them according to the direaiou of the Seer. All which thews the Enlargement of the Church and its Joy, and the Improvement of the Worthip of God in Gofpel-times : Here are one hundred and twenty Trumpets now, whereas there were but two at first. And as the number of Priefts, and Trumpets and Mufical Inftruments was much increafed in Solo- mon's Time above what it was in the time of Mofes : So (hall the Church and their fpiritual Joy in the days of the Gofpel under Chrift, who is the true Solomon. They are increafd now, and (hall be more and more in the later days, Ifa, 6o, and 6t Chapter. 7. WO
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