Observanda. The life and death of the late Q. Mary

I remember the Satisfactions of the Prophet Isaiah. There was a Time, when there were two Princes together Sitting on the Throne of Judah; one whereof, being Removed by the Stroke of Death, at a Time when there was a mighty party in the Kingdom, which desired further Alterations, that man of God was very Thoughtful, what Events the Wheels would now turn unto. But now, to satisfy him, he tells us, in Isa. 6.1. In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw also the LORD Sitting upon a Throne, High and Lifted up, and His Train filled the Temple. Josephus affirms, that in the Earthquake, which, we know, happened a little before this, an High Hill was torn down, and in ••s Rolling down, it spoiled the Kings House; but at the same time, it so rent the Roof of ⟨p. 15⟩the Temple, that the Sun shone into it. Yea▪ but our Prophet now sees the Sun of Righteousness Himself come into the Temple; whatever happens, we may see our Lord Jesus Christ, Sitting upon a Throne, High and Lifted up.

III. The Angels of the Lord Jesus Christ, those Mighty and Holy Spirits, of the Invisible World, have a wonderful Influence upon the Changes that come to pass in this World. This was what the Prophet here saw, in Ezek. 10.9. When I looked, Behold the four Wheels by the Cherubims; one Wheel by one Cherub, and another Wheel by another Cherub. Truly, there is an Inexpressible Agency of those Cherubims, the Angels of the Lord, in the Turns that the World is agitated with. As one ingeniously says, The Angels are capacious Wheels that move in the great Clock of the world; so, the Wheels of Providence are marvellously Turned, by the Ministry of those Angels, whom God hath made Ministering Spirits, and who wait about the Throne of our Jesus. When a Great Prince was to be Dethroned, by the Turn of these Wheels, it was said, in