466 e.s1 Commentary upon the GVel Chap.18,. God will feet in her face : And, .if Aron had not made the more halt to make his peace by repentance, he alfo had tatted of the fame fawce. Their Angels doallzwaies behold,theface] Angels in the Syri- ack are named = ': of the face,beCaufe it is their office and ho- nour to'look alwaies do Gods face. They are fens about Gods meflages to this earth, yetare never out of their heaven, never out of the vif onof their maker. No more are godly men, when bud ed in their callings.. And, howfoever flag iced in the world, yet Angels are tent forth for their fateguard and (ervice, Heb.. i. r+,. yea for the 'accoanplifhment of all defignes for the Saints good,, they fluid al way looking God full in the face, to receive com- mandments. Vale " t"i. For the Sonne of man came, &c.] Therefore. An. gels are to attive and officious about them. This the reprobate Angels couldn©t bring their. hearts to"yeeld.to, and therefore fell through envie, from theirfirllefface ; and whereas the fociecy of Angels was much maimed by their fall, their room (ay tome, is fupplied bythe Saints, whom therefore they take fetchcare of, and . content in. Verfe Y.a. Doth he not leave the ninety and nine ] I amnot Tbeopbitaft- faith a Divine, of their fond opinion, that think the Angels are dí., 99 here meant by the ninety nine fheep, as ifthey were (0 infinite x,edesttquie in number beyond the numberofmankinde ; yet, without quefii- Konerrave,unt, on, they are exceeding many, and that number cannot be known unamperditam, ofus.in this wa.ld, D"an.7.5o.. Pfal"68 57. The Charities ofGod, +ena.hurn au,n, are twenty thoufand, even thonfands of Angels : the Lord is a mong them as in Sinai, &c. that is, thole myriads of Angels make Sion as dreadful' to all her enemies, as chafe Angels made. Sinai at the delivery of the law. Boat the application of this pa- table makes it plain, that the hundred fheep are Gods cleft little ones ;':all which are ffc (afe by Chriti upon the everla ling ueuz; tains, andnot one of them loft, 76h. i o..Tlatth.z . Vçrc 14. rflnd if ji be that he finde it ] As he will moll lure_ ly, for nonecan take them out of his hands : nor can he difcharge his null, fhottld he fuller anyone of them to wanderand perifh, as they will do undoubtedly, if lift to themfelves, fuch istheir fheepitl1 fimplicity, /1-4.5 .6. God hath charged Chrift to f;e to the fate-keeping of every true fheep, 7ob.6.39 4o and he per- ,\ formed it to the full, ?oh.17 12 As for chat fonneof perdition there 1, 4
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