554 A Commentary tapos the GeOel Chap.24 hiswounds, or his croffc, orfomething elfe that we cannot de-- fcribe, and need not fcarch into. Look how a King, when he would gather his forces into one, fets up his flandard, orappoints his rendezvous : fo, fuch fhall be the brightnefle of arias com- ing, that all his {hall be gathered unto him by that token, not to fight ; but to triumph with him and divide the fpoil, as it were, being more then conquerours; andwhat is that but triumphers? The expcftationofthis day mu't (as that did with `David; foul- diets at Zik/ag) digeft all our forrows. And then'hall all theTribes ofthe earthmourn] ] This to prevent, wemull judge our felves, 1 Cory r.3 r. and take unto us words againft our fins, if we would not have Chrii} take unto him words againft our fouls, Hof: 14, 3. Good men have been exceedingly affefted at the hearing of Gods judgements again!} oth. r,, as Ha6.3.i 6. Verfe 3 r. Andhedhallfendhie fingelc ] As his apparitourr and executioners. `David went othcrwife tended whenhe went a. gainft Nabal,then when againft gdtah :So Chrift alai; eome,when he fhall come again with his troops and trumpets,'&c, With a great fund of Trumpet] Chrift (hall put forth his ownmightyvoice, 7oh.5.28. & 1 The, : 4.16. mintilred 1y his Angels, as in the text, and fet forthby the foundofa trumpet, in alluG,.n, behke toNumb io. where the people w?rc congregated and coded together by the foundofa trumpet to the door of the Tabernacle. The Lion cf the Tribe of 7udah (hall roar from above, and thruft out his voice from his holy habitation, when he entreth into jùdgement with all flcfh: yereny 25. 30, ;1. As the Lion roareth over his whelps, brought forth dead at firft, and raifeth them from death to life, as `Pliny re7 porteth. (.latari, e 'fnd thev'ballgather together his clef] How thail they fin mr jtremci- them from reprobates ? By Gods faving mark fit fairly in their fore-heads, Ezek.9. Andby their blith and merry countenances, cleared and cheared in the apprehenfion and approachof their full redemption, now drawing nigh. Betides, as fervants know their matters harvefk fromano hers, and can cafily difccrn the corn from thecockle, fo can thegood angels loon fìngle out the cleft, about whom they have been familiarly converfant here on earth, as mini- firing fpirits fcnt forth tominifler to the heirs offalvation, ready b. +.T4. prefl to any goodoffice about them. Vcrfe
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