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But others say what the Sound of the Trumpet shall be no man can tell, and so do not determine whether it shall be the one or the other, but say, The Lord himself coming down in his visible Humanity from Heaven, shall call the World together, as men call Assemblies, by shout, by Voice, or by a Trumpet; so shall Christ by his unknown way, called the Voice of the Archangel, and the Trumpet of God. But when the Trumpet is sounded, and the dead are raised, the holy Angels of God shall be employed concerning them: For they do not only come along with Christ as his Attendants to set forth the Greatness of his Majesty, as Lords, and Dukes, and Earls waiting upon an Earthly King, but also to execute Christs Commands concerning those that shall be raised; for as they did attend them at their Death, ⟨p. 187⟩and were the Convoy of their separated Souls into the place of Rest and Joy, so they shall also be serviceable to them at their Restoration unto Life.

I. In gathering the Elect of God together. They died and were buried in distant places, far remote each from other, some in one part of the World, and some in another, and lie scattered far and near; but God shall use the Ministration of Angels to gather them together. Mat. 24.31. And he shall send his Angels with a great sound of a Trumpet, and they shall gather together his Elect from the four Winds, from one end of the World to the other. If you have one godly Relation dieth in England, and another in the East, and another in the West-Indies, trouble not your thoughts hereat, how shall they be brought together at last; if some die at one end of the World, and some at another, God by his Angels will find out where they were buried, and bring them together. Mar. 13.27. And then shall he send his Angels, and shall gather his Elect together from the four Winds, from the uttermost part of the Earth, to the uttermost part of Heaven. None shall be lost or left behind; this might be a stay and support to some that are mourning for their dead Relations, with this Aggravation, We know not where they died, nor where they were buried: Though you do not, God will find them, tho they died in