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A75734 Thunder from heaven against the back-sliders and apostates of the times. In some meditations on the 24 chapter of Isaiah. / By W.A. Aspinwall, William, fl. 1648-1662. 1655 (1655) Wing A4009; Thomason E831_26; ESTC R207507 30,084 39

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And it seems that this Most high one hath the command of the Militia of that land wherefore the Militia is called his Militia or host It may also be called his Militia because they have been instrumental to advance him to that height or highness and so the fourth verse seems to intimate Or if you will it may include both But take it which way you please the Lord Jehovah that gives all Beings their existence and gives a Being to all his judgements will visit the Militia of that MOST HIGH ONE with the MOST HIGH ONE You may either understand it thus that God will make that MOST HIGH ONE an instrumental cause of the Hosts punishment or that he will punish the Host in that MOST HIGH ONE as being the head and chief of them or else that he will punish them both together The phrase is very observable and though our English translation read it otherwise That God will punish the host of the high ones that are on high yet it is not so proper For 1. The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 word is there used in the singular number not in the plural 2. There is affixed an Emphasis to the word the Host of that most high one And 3. The word there used signifies properly height in the abstract And is as much as if you should say in our English Idiome that MOST HIGH ONE And in propriety of speech there can be but one Most High Wherefore God assumes it as his own proper title vers 18. And David attributes it to God Psal 56. 2. Oh thou MOST HIGH Let mortal sinful men therefore tremble to arrogate such titles of God unto themselves unless God give it them The place of the punishment of this MOST HIGH ONE and his host together with the Kings of the earth it is in this world God will not respite it unto the world to come For so much is implyed in that phrase upon the earth And well it is for them if they may receive their punishment in this world onely What the kind of their punishment shall be is not expressed save onely that they shall be gathered with a gathering a prisoner for the dungeon and shall be shut up in prison Or as we use to say shall be close prisoners And whether that onely shall be their punishment or whether they shall be reserved unto further punishment afterwards is not very clear from the text Possibly if they then repent as Manasseh did God may shew them mercy Vers 23. Then the Moon shall be confounded and the Sun ashamed The word translated confounded doth signifie to digg through the earth as men use to do untill they come to a living spring And so the word is used Gen. 26. 18. And Isaac digged again the wells of water which they had digged in the dayes of Abraham his father The meaning is God will so digg through all those earthly mouldy carnal politicks of civil Government in that land till he shew them at length the limpid clear fountain and living spring of righteousness and Judgement out of the word of Christ so that they will be confounded with shame at all their former mouldy principles after which they have walked in all their former administrations And the Sunne shall be ashamed The Churches of Christ even the most reformed shall then blush to see how far they fall short of the Primitive institution Thus will God shame them when he begins to set up the Government of his Son in this and in other of the Nations And so I come to the time when all these things shall be fulfilled when God will put a period unto all earthly forms of Government in the land here spoken of and in the rest of the Nations and when God will visit that MOST HIGH ONE and his Host and the Kings of the neighbouring Nations It is when Jehovah of Hosts shall Reign you may understand the word translated when or for either as an Adverb of time and so it shews forth the season wherein these things shal come to pass Or you may take it for a Conjunction causal and so it shew forth both the principal efficient cause of all that hath been spoken before and also the main scope and end or the main design which God had in hand and aimed at in all these mutations in Churches and Civil State to wit That Jehovah might Reign and so that word is also used And whereas it is said when Jehovah shal Reign or for Jehovah Reigneth or that Jehovah may Reign and there makes a distinction it argues there will be some beginning of Christs Reign in that Land and in the other Nations of the Gentiles before the calling of the Jews but the most glorious manifestation of Christs Kingly power both in Church and State will be reserved for his ancient people the Jews when they are called home again In brief therefore to gather up the sence of the words it is as if the Prophet should have said after Christ hath proceeded by all the forementioned gradations to dissipate the old Heaven and old Earth to wit their civil and Church administrations of their own invention and to set up new Heavens and new Earth new administrations in them both according to his Word Then Jehovah the Lord of Hosts the Lord Jesus Christ wil Reign in that Nation whereof the Prophet speaks and then he wil punish the Host of that MOST HIGH ONE and that HIGH ONE both together and so proceed to the rest of the Nations and will there rule and Reign as King in Mount Zyon and in Jerusalem in Church and Common-wealth throughout the Nations But most gloriously before his Antients the seed of Abraham to whom God hath of old promised and sworn that his Seed should possess the gate of his enemies Gen 22. 17. And indeed God shewed to Abraham as in a Type or shadow what he would do in the ends of the world in subduing all the four Monarchies and giving the Kingdom and greatness thereof to Abrahams seed For in the 14 of Genesis you read of four Kings to wit Amraphel King of Shinar Ariech King of Elleaser Chederlaomer King of Elam and Tiddal King of Nations whom Abraham pursued to rescue his Kinsman Lot and overcame them and slew them These four Kings were the root as I may say of the four Monarchies which in after-times became afflictive to the Church of God And the fal of these was prefigured in the overthrow of those which Melchisedeck doth so congratulate with a blessing from the most High God possessor of Heaven and Earth In Mount Zyon and in Jerusalem I wil not deny that Mount Zyon and Jerusalem are here literally meant for it is an undeniable truth that Christ wil Reign there But withal I take it that by Mount Zion and Jerusalem is here intended the Church and civil State not in Jury only but in all other the Nations For Mount Zyon is often put for the