38 C H A P.I. An Expofitton vpon thefecond V E x.8.. tYvfighty., Common place of the power of Angels, and their might, how farre it reacheth in workes ofNature, or aboue Nature, I rneane not to enter : who l ills, may fee what Schoolemen haue to that point queflioned and refol- tied. How mighty they are, yee may for this purpofe fee in the difcomfiture of Senachar i6 : when one Angel in one night flaughtered fo many thoufands of the Aflÿri- ans. The Reafon why their 'night is heere mentioned feemes : r. As to Phew how fitted the Lord is to the end ofhis comming, which is to render vengeance; hauing at command fo many and mighty Angels ; fo, 2. To deìeót the haughty and proud conceit of Potentates on earth,here fwaying and t fwaggering, as tho'è in the Pfalme, as if none were able, or might dare to giue themaffront.There fhall they meete with a Iudge, able with the breath of his mouth to confume them. Ayded, I fay not, but attended with Arnves,Hofles of mighty Angels, fwift and potent executioners of all his Behefls. Yet more to augment the terrour of the Iudge, the Modus of his comming is fubioyued::he comes in flaming fire: fvaugá çAo7,ps.; by an Hebraifine in Igne fiam mante. Whither this fire be theold Elementary,or a New crea. ted : whither the anion of it be naturali ota.fupernaturall, with the like niceties of inquirie, confuit with Schoole- men. Generally its relolued to bee materíaIl, not meta - phoricall fire ; and that Ignis conflàgrataonis fpoken of by Peter, whereby the in Elements 'ball melt with feruent heate, and the earth with the workesthereinfballbee burnt vp. To,what other Vfe it then fettles, who fo askes, may thus be informed. x .To purge t're creature from the droflè it hath contraEted. 2. To be inflrument of vengeance vp. on the vngodly : the feculent and droffie parts thereof, as. they fay,being referued for torment to the wicked in hell, the lake that Burnes with fire and T rimf one for euer. Why in flaming fire ? if any aske, I fay hee is curious : Yet i. That is more terrible to the eye. 2. More pier- cing
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