An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters…

As our seeing God face to face in Heaven, so his speaking to us, mouth to mouth on earth, notes the clearest and fullest revelation: It is to give us his mind, nakedly, without any figure or shadow; or (as Christ is said once in the Gospel) to speak plainly, and not in Parables. And these speakings mouth to mouth, were of two sorts: Either immediate, as himself did unto Moses, or as to others, by the ministry of Angels; God often employed Angels in this service, to declare his mind, and bring messages to his people; This was a kind of speaking mouth to mouth: but Moses had an honour beyond this, with him will I speak mouth to mouth, I by my self, not I, by a created Angel.

As our seeing God face to face in Heaven, so his speaking to us, mouth to mouth on earth, notes the clearest and fullest revelation: It is to give us his minde, nakedly, without any figure or shadow; or (as Christ is said once in the Gospel) to speake plainely, and not in Parables. And these speakings mouth to mouth, were of two sorts: Either immediate, as himselfe did unto Moses, or as to others, by the ministry of Angels; God often employed Angels in this service, to declare his minde, and bring messages to his people; This was a kinde of speaking mouth to mouth: but Moses had an honour beyond this, with him will I speake mouth to mouth, I by my selfe, not I, by a created Angell.

Visions (to keep to the term in hand) were (you see) a principal means, by which God broke his mind, and unlocked the secrets of his counsels. If there be a Prophet among you, I the Lord will make my self known unto him in a vision. And to clear this point about visions yet more fully; We may distinguish of divers sorts of visions. First, A vision is sometime put for any ordinary dispensation of the will of God, to his Prophets or Ministers, who as from God, dispense it to his people, (Prov. 29. 18.) Where vision faileth, the people perish, that is, where there are none to publish and declare the mind of God (no not in an ordinary way) to a people, that people are in the ready way to perdition. Without the visions of grace, there is no ordinary way to the visions of glory. Secondly, By a vision, we understand an extraordinary work of