C H A P.4. Epiflle to the Thcffalonians. VER. 16 333 VERS. 16. For the Lord bimfelfe ¡hall de(cend fronm Hearten with .s fltout, with the voice of the a.Archavq, and with the Trumpe of Clod, and the dead in Chrifi Jball rifefir¡#. He Explication followes ; firft, by cau- v J fes principali and fubferuient;fecond- ly,the order of proceeding then hol- den, Verf 16.17. In the words are three things conliderabic firfi, that Chrifi (ball come; fecondly,the man- nerof his cornming; thirdly, the of fríîs and confequents thereof. That there jball befoeh aglorioies commixg ofChrifl toiudg- ment,criptures plainly proue.eThis fame lefus fhallfo come, at yaw hanefeene him goe into hearten. d They Jballfee the Son ofman ramming in the Clouds, with Power andgreat Glory. e Enoch, thef uenth from Adam, prophefiedhereof Behold,the Lord commeth with ten thou ¡and of his Saints. The Lord was ph afed to grant Ióme intimation hereof to the very Hea- then, by their S,bylía, Augufline and Eufebius record the Verf'es of Sibylia Erlthræa to this purpofe. "Her d l' ite,44 v eakd e c 'zr, ó F o M t, ï'aga =fro yç(Ka AWRV,) xooF.or w71ea7et Whence they had it, whether by extraordinary reue- lation, or by fame notice from Scriptures of old Tefla mcnt, it is nor materiali to crïcluit e. The Lord, it f ernes, would haue extant anrongflthe Heathen tome Prediai ons thereof, as alfo of other things ; the better to make way fer entertainment of the Golpell amongfl Gentiles, . in the fulnetle of time, whtn they fliould fee the Princi- ples thereof, haue content from their own Writers, whale Authority was facred ams/met them. Realons e das d Irlat.z43o. 9 bide tq.
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