366 VERSE 3. Numb.23.10. Hof. t,to. Efay xr.9. Revel: 4.9. Multitudes borneunto chro ax.w,I .... elMaAMOINMai Ifrael by promife, when thole after the flefh fhould be diffipatedand become no people, yet faith the Prophet, the number of the childrenof Ifrael fhall be as the farad of the lea which cannot be meafured nor numbred, &c. meaning the Ifrael ofGod among(! the Gentiles. Thus the faithfull are Paid to flocke like Doves unto their win- dowes, and to fwell into afe4 of great waters, an hun- dred and finire. and forty thourand, with an innumera- ble company more, all Pealed and (landing before the Lambe. Now this was indie copiarrem,in the time when Chrift firft fent abroad his armies and the rod of his flrength into the world. Before this God fuffered men towalke in their owne wayes, yeajin hisowne life-time bee for- bade his Difciples to enter into the Cities of the Sama- ritans, or the Gentiles. And he promifed them that they fhoulddo greater works thanhe himfelfe had done,be- caufe hewent unto his Father : for whenhe afcended up on high, he then led captivitie captive, that ignorance and chraldome under which the world was held he tri- umphed over,andgave gifts of his Spirit unto menofall forts inabundance; Vitions to the young, Dreames to the aged, and his gracious Spirit unto all. Wee never readeof fomany converted by Chrifis perfonall prea- ching (which was indeed but the beginningofhis prea- ching,for it is the Lord which fpeaketh from heaven as by the miniflery of his Apofiles ; he thereby provi- ding tomagnifie tlit excellencieofhisfpirituall .pre fence, againfl all the carnal! fuperftitions-of thofe men who feeke for an invifible corporall preknceofChrift on the earth, charmed downe out of heaven under the lying fhapesof feparated accidents. Andwho cannot be con- tent with that 411-Infricient Remembrancer, whichhim- felfe bath proinifed to his Church, fob.14. 26. except they may have others, and thole fuch as the holy Scrip- tures every wheredifgraceth as teachers of lyesand va- nity,
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