Chap.4 according to St MATT H a vv. 79 who ti h a loft and comfortable handkerchief, wiped off the tweat ofhis body ( which through extream pain and anguifh was. little lefle then bloud ) and bad him, Be of good shear. Info- much as that it wasrather apunifhment then a pleafure to him to be taken off the rack, fish, when the tormentours had done, the Angel was gone. And how many unfpeakable comforts mini- fired the good Angels to the modern Martyrs in their priions, at . the flake, and in the fire? Chrift indeed was not comforted by them, till the temptation was over ; but tous they minifter, ma- ny times,in the hour oftemptation. They have power over the devils, to reftrain them : and(though invifibly and infenfibly) are as ready to help andcomfort us, as the evil Angels to tempt and trouble us : ellewere not our proteetion equall to our danger, and we could neither fland nor rife. An Angel (food at Zecharies right hand, Luka.a I. (as the devil did at yehofhuahs (Zech.3. a.) to thew how ready and handy they are to defend and fupport. the Saints. It was as he was burning incenfe. The Angels are bufieft about us, when we are in Gods work : which to fet forth,. the hangings of the Tabernacle of old were full of Cherubims within and without. He faidunto him, Fear not, Zechary. The . bleffed fpirits ( though they doenot often vocally expreffe it, doe pityour humanefrailties, and fecretly fuggeft comfort to us, when, we perceive it not. Alway they fund looking on the lace of God to receive commandments,, for the accomplifhment of all defigns for our good ; which they have no boner received, then they readily difpatch, even withwearinetheofflight, as Dan.9.3r, with fo muchfwiftneffe, as if they had wearied themf;lves with - fleeing. I read of a Frier that undertook to Phew to the people a. feather of the wing ofthe Angel Gabriel. Aplume ofwhole fea- thers it might better have become the Pope to fend to Tyrone the Irifh Rebell, then that plume of Phoenix-feathers he fens to ho- nour and encourage him ; had his holinefle fuch command over B.carteronr Angels,as they fayhehath,or did he not rathercollude in one.thing, oGods mec. as that Frier did in another. eiesp i7 V-er-fe 12. Nowwhen Iefus heard that lob?: was caft into pri- fin] For Herodias hisfake, though under pretextsof fear of fe- dition, becaufe of the great multitudes that followed and admired, him, as lofephaos hath it. This hath ever been an ordinary accufa Ioleph,t, is,. Lion caft upon the molt innocent, to be feedfmen of fedition, and c7 troublers of the State. /emu was held awl called a Traitour, . liiab
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