'Under the Old `Its 'lament. 12,3 adverPries? then the Angel anfwered, I am theCaptainof the Lords Hog; and nom I come; if he had faid, Ian come a fecond time, that I may lead the Ifradites into their Pof- fpn. I came when. Mofes thy Matter Was the Ruler, but when he faro me, he mould not haveme to go with him, but refufed me. .Asfoon as Jofhua heard this , he fell on his facé and worlhipped, laying, what fpeaketh my Lord unto his fervant. Anfwerable hereunto in the Talmud. Traftat. Saned. cap. 4 Echad dine Mammoth they have a glofs on thofe words, Exod. 23. v. 2t. =WO V 7 t1W+ t`itt, he will not par- donyour. tranfgreffons I'M tininolti n+4 1Drtt11 j11n+'rcol 1=3ÿwí4 rn` rt 'MI 241 NUM n+t1W, äp719;- t5+ori 1514 1.11NDI >,1nox0 10) uHt 13+yv4 Met rota rtity tint,t . He cannot noire or pardon your tranfgre(lions : what then doh he do; or could he do ; wherefore hefaid unto him, ( to God ) we believe that he cannot pardon Our Tranff' grefons, and therefore the refufi hipo, and will not accept of him; no not for a leader to go in and out before us. They greatly miffake in fuppohng that the Angel whom alone Mofes refufed, washe that afterwards appeared unto Jofhuab; for he was the fame withhim, in whom was the name of God, and who was promifed unto them under the naine of the Face or Prefince of But herein they were right enough ; that, not Mofes, but their Church under the Law, refufed that Angel of Gods Prefnce, who was to cònduft them that obey him into everlafling refl. And the Church of Believers under Jofhua, whichwas a Type of the Church ofthe New Teflament, ad tieringunto him, found tell unto their fouls. And this Angel ofwhom we have fpoken, was he whom the Talmudilfs call 4. 23. illtoteD, Newton. Ben Vzziel in his Targum on Gen. 5. afcribes this name unto Enoch. He afcended, faith he into Heáven by the Word of the Lord, tR1Qt7j11toto+t3 rntptu-t 1pí tí11; and his name was called Metraton thegreat Scribe. But this Opinion is rejeôfed 'arid confuted in the Talmud. There they tell us that Metatron is t=kÿn 1W, the Prince of the world. Or as Elias calls him in Tifhbi, t =+09ií 1W, the Prince of Gods Prefence. "fhe mentionof this name is in Talon. Troll. Saned. cap. 4. where they plainly intimate that theyintend an untreated Angel' thereby: For they aliign. fuch things unto rum as are incompetent untò any other. And as Reuchlin informeth us from the Cabba- lifts, they fay ¿11toon nun 'It) +11, Metatron was theMager or Teacher of Mofes,himfelf, He it is faith Elias who is the Angel alwayes appearing in thePrefence ofGod, ofwhom it itfaidmy -name is in him. And the Talmudiffs add that lie hath power ter blot out the fins of /fiat, whence they call him the Chancellor ofHeaven. And Bechai a famous Matter among them affirms, that his Name Signifies both a Lord, a Mellinger, and a Keeper, onExod. 23. A. Lordbecaufe he ruleth alb AMellinger, hecanfe heffandeth al- wayes before God to do hisWill ; and a'Keeper, becaufe he keepeth 'frail. The Esmo- logie Itoefers whichhe givesunto this Purpofeof that name is weak and foolifh Nor is that of Eliasone jot better, who tells us that Metatron is Jr Z1tritm, in the Greek longue; One lent. But yet it is evident what is is intended by theft obfcure intimati- osos, which are the corrupted reliüs of ancient Traditions, namely the increased Prince of Glory, who beingLord of all appearedof old unto thePatriarchs, as the,Angel orMef- fenger of theFather. And as for the word its felf, it is either a corrupt expreffion of the LatinMediator , fuch as are ufual amongst them, or a. more Gematrical Fi6tion toanfwer unto +`ira, the Almighty, there being a coincidence in their numericallfig- ' nification oftheir Letters. And this was another way, wherebyGod inftruCted the Churchof old inthe Myfterie of the Perfon of theMefiabwhowas liromifedunto them. Exercitatio
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