m Either this is underſtood of Chriſt the Prince of Angels, who is often in Scripture called an Angel, or of a created Angel; and tht either, r. one of the Archangels, Dan. 10. 13. Michael is cal- led one of the chief Princes, which, though the word Archangel be not found in the Plural Number in Scripture, may well imply a Plu- rality of them; for what is one of the chief Princes among the Anzels, but an Archangel ? Or, 2ly. a principal Angel, or one that is chief among others. # It may be meant either cf Chriſt contend- ing with the Devil, as Matth. 4. in his Temptation, and Zech 3. 1, 2. and Rev. 12. 7. Or rather, of Michael a created Angel, o If Michael the Archangel be meant of Chriſt, then the Body of Moſes
Chap. ]. | own ſhame /: wandring ſtars #, to whom is reſerved the blacknels of darkneſs 7 for ever.
k Not only 1nconſtant as Water, but unquiet, turbulent, reſtle{ that cannot ceaſe from Sin. / Thar wickedneſs whereof they ſhould be aſhamed : /ike a troubled Sea, when it cannot reſt, whiſe Waves caſt out Mire and Dirt, Iſa. 57. 20. m Either Planets properly called, or rather Meteors called running Stars, inconſtant in their motion, un- certain in their ſhining, making a little ſkew, but preſently vaniſh- ing; ſuch was the Dottrine of theſe, which had a ſhew 05 Li-ht but a deceitful and unconſtant one. n The thickeſt Darkneſs, viz. that of Hell; they would be counted Lights, but are themſelves cali into utter Darkneſs, 2. Pet. 2.17. As blackneſs of Darkneſs ſhew: the horrour of their Puniſhment, ſo. its being reſerved for then: ſhews the certainty of it.
14 And Enoch alſo, the * ſeventh from Adam Pro- phecied oof theſe p, ſaying, Behold the Lord 4 cometh with ten thouſands 9 of his Saints 7.
*Dan.12.1.
*Gen. 5.12 7 Matth, 26. 301
| EGen. 4.5. + Num.22. I. 20.
may be taken figuratively for that Body whereof the Moſaical Ce- remonies were Shadows, Col. 2. 17. i. e. the Truth and Accompliſh- ment of the Law given by Moſes, that Accompliſhment was to be 1n Chriſt, who is repreſented by 7-ſþua, Zech. 3. him Satan refiſts 1n the Execution of his Office, and by him ſtrikes at Chriſt, whoſe T: pc: he was, and whom he was, and whom he afterward oppoſerh in the Executicn of his Office, when he was come 1n the Fleſh : Or, 2iv. If we take Michael for a created Angel, which agrees beſt with th- parallel place in Peter, then the Body of Moſes mult be taken properlv (as moſt take it) and the Diſpute feems to be, Whether Ales his body ſhould be ſo buried as to be concealed from the I/- raelites 2 Deut. 34. 6. it is ſaid God buried him (which might be by the Miniſtry of Michael the Archangel) and that no Man knew of hs Serulchre. The Devil oppoſeth the Angel, deſiring to have the place of his Burial known, that 1n after-times it might be a Snare to that People, and a means to bring them to ſdolatry. And this ſeems very probable, if we confider what Work the Devil hath made in the” World with the Bodies of Saints and Martyrs, and how much Idolatry he hath brought in thereby. This Paſſage Fude, moſt probably, had (as was obſerved in the Argument) from ſome known Tradition among the Jews, the Truth of which we are now ſure of, becauſe certified here concerning it. p Or, could not endure (as the Gre:h word 1s often taken among Prophane Writers) or find in his Heart, not from fear of Puniſhment, but by reaſon of the Holineſs of his own Nature, and to give an Example to us. And this Senſe agrees to the Scope of the place, whether we underſtand it of Chriſt, or of a created Angel, Heb. 12. 3. and 1 Pet. 2. 23. ql/id. 2 Pet. 2.11. 7 4. e. Put thee to filence, reſtrain thy Inſolence, hinder thy Deſign, gc. hereby the Angel refers the- Cauſe to God. 10 But theſe ſpeak evil of thoſe things which they know not /: but what they know naturally z, as brute beaſts, in thoſe things they corrupt themſelves z. { The ſame as 2 Pet. 2. 12. unleſs this be more generally to be underſtood of all thoſe Spiritual things, whereof they were Igno- rant. t Without Reaſon or Judgment. «4 Debauch and degrade their Natures by extream Senſualities, whereby they bring Deſtru&ti- on upon themſelves. See 2 Pet. 2.12. ir Wo unto them x, for they have gone in the way y of * Cain 2, and Þ ran greedily after the error a of Balaam., and periſhed in the gain-ſaying of Core 6.
x This is either a lamenting the miſery- that was to come upon them, or a foretelling it would come, not a wiſhing that it might, Matth. 11.21. and 1 Cor. 9.16. y Followed his manners, and fal- len under his Puniſhment. Their likeneſs to Cain, both as to their ations and the event of them, ſeems to be implied 1n this and the
following clauſe, as well as it is plainly in the laſt. 7x Cain hated his
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Brother and ſlew him ; they hate their Brethren, and by their per- nicious Dofrines and Deceits, murder their Souls, and probably ſtir up Perſecution againſt their Perſons, @ Covetouſneſs, to which be- ing exceſſively addited, or, (as the Greek implies) poured out, they did for the ſake of filthy lucre corrupt the Doftrine of Chriſt; See 2 Pet. 2.15. b Corah (whom he here names alone, as being the Rinz-leader of the Rebellion, in which others joyned with him, Numb. 16. 1.) affffefting the Prieſthood, roſe up ſeditiouſly againſt Moſes and Aaron, and periſhed in the attempt. Theſe imitate him in their Rebellicn againſt Chriſt himſelf, the ſtate and order of whoſe Church they ſeditiouſly diſturb, as well as that of the Civil State, in deſpiling Dominion, and ſpeaking evil of Dignities, and that to their o'vn Deſtruttion,
12 Theſe are ſpots c in your feaſts of charity d when they feaſt with you, feeding themſelves without fear e. * clouds they are without water carried about of winds f, trees whoſe fruit withereth g, without fruit þ, twice dead 7, plucked up by the roots f.