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A treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being, attributes, works and word…
A treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being, attributes, works and word opened and applied / by Geo. Swinnocke ...A treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being, attributes, works and word opened and applyed / by Geo. Swinnocke ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1672
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. He is so excellent, that even Angels veil their faces in his presence. The excellent Cherubims & Seraphims, who are spotless in their natures, and faultless in their lives, who are the highest and honourablest, and ancientest House of the Creation, who, as his special friends and favourites are allowed to wait on him continually, to behold him face to face, and to enjoy him fully and perfectly; yet these Angels veil their faces before him (as it were) ashamed of their Star-light in the Presence of the Sun, and their drops in the presence of the Ocean, Isa. 6.1, 2, 3. I saw the Lord sitting on a Throne high and lifted up; about it stood the Seraphims, each had six wings, with twain he did fly, with twain he covered his feet▪ with twain he covered his face. To ⟨p. 290⟩cover the face is a sign or fruit of bashfulness, as in Rebekah, Gen. 24.65. The face of an Angel is void of all spots and wrinkles, it is full of beauty and brightness, a most excellent face. And all the Council looking steadfastly on him, beheld his face as if it had been the face of an Angel, Acts 6. ult. yet this face, as excellent as it is, they cover (as it were) ashamed of it before that God who alone is excellent.
3. He is so excellent, that even Angels vail their faces in his presence. The excellent Cherubims & Seraphims, who are spotless in their natures, and faultless in their lives, who are the highest and honourablest, and ancientest House of the Creation, who, as his special friends and favourites are allowed to wait on him continually, to behold him face to face, and to enjoy him fully and perfectly; yet these Angels vail their faces before him (as it were) ashamed of their Star-light in the Presence of the Sun, and their drops in the presence of the Ocean, Isa. 6.1, 2, 3. I saw the Lord sitting on a Throne high and lifted up; about it stood the Seraphims, each had six wings, with twain he did fly, with twain he cover'd his feet▪ with twain he cover'd his face. To