Sixthly, There is a whispering Thunder, I may call it a kind of silent o• still-voiced Thunder; possibly that was such spoken of (1 Kings 19.12.) After the fire, a still small voice. As also that when Jesus Christ was baptized by John in Jordan (Matth. 3.17.) And lo, a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased; 'Tis conceived, that voice came in a still whispering Thunder. Such doubtless was that Thunder (John 12.28, 29.) when Christ prayed, Father, glorify thy Name; then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. At the hearing of this voice, the people that stood by, said that it thundered, others said, that an Angel spake to him. This voice was an articulate sound coming with the Thunder; and the Hebrew word which we commonly translate voices, signifieth thunder. The Jewish Writers tell us that (Bath col) the daughter of voice (which they reckon the only way of divine revelation, left them after the Babylonish Captivity) was the will of God made known to them immediately from heaven by this sort of Thunder. Thunders and voices are often joined in the Book of the Revelations (Chap. 4.5. chap. 8.5.) implying, the revelation of those prophetic wonders, was made by Voices accompanied with Thunder. And thus those two texts which seem contradictory may be reconciled, Act. 9.7. it is said, They who journeyed with Paul, stood speechless hearing a voice. But (Act. 22.9.) Paul saith, They saw indeed the light and were afraid, but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me. The voice which they heard in the 9th Chapter was the voice of Thunder, and the voice which they did not hear the 22d, was the distinct articulate voice of Christ, saying, Saul, Saul, Why persecutest thou me?
Sixthly, There is a whispering Thunder, I may call it a kind of silent o• still-voyced Thunder; possibly that was such spoken of (1 Kings 19.12.) After the fire, a still small voice. As also that when Jesus Christ was baptized by John in Jordan (Matth. 3.17.) And lo, a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased; 'Tis conceived, that voice came in a still whispering Thunder. Such doubtless was that Thunder (John 12.28, 29.) when Christ prayed, Father, glorifie thy Name; then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorifie it again. At the hearing of this voice, the people that stood by, said that it thundred, others said, that an Angel spake to him. This voice was an articulate sound coming with the Thunder; and the Hebrew word which we commonly translate voyces, signifieth thunder. The Jewish Writers tell us that (Bath col) the daughter of voice (which they reckon the only way of divine revelation, left them after the Babylonish Captivity) was the will of God made known to them immediately from heaven by this sort of Thunder. Thunders and voyces are often joyned in the Book of the Revelations (Chap. 4.5. chap. 8.5.) implying, the revelation of those prophetick wonders, was made by Voyces accompanied with Thunder. And thus those two texts which seem contradictory may be reconciled, Act. 9.7. it is said, They who journied with Paul, stood speechless hearing a voice. But (Act. 22.9.) Paul saith, They saw indeed the light and were afraid, but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me. The voice which they heard in the 9th Chapter was the voice of Thunder, and the voice which they did not hear the 22d, was the distinct articulate voice of Christ, saying, Saul, Saul, Why persecutest thou me?
