The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

§. Descended in a bodily shape.

God is said to descend, not that he moveth from place to place, or cometh where he was not before, for he is incircumscriptible, and every where and filleth all places: but in that he sheweth this his presence upon Earth, in such or such a place, by some external sign, and visible appearance: And so he is said to come down to see whether the wickedness of Sodome were according to the cry that was come up unto him, be∣cause he revealed himself to Abraham, Lot, and the Sodomites in the visible and con∣spicuous representation of men: So is he said to have come down upon Mount Si∣nai, because of the outward revealing and expression of his presence there. And so the Chaldee Paraphrast understandeth the Trinities descending, Gen. 11. 5. for a conspicu∣ous appearance of it, for he translateth, The Lord revealed himself to take vengeance, &c. And so is the Holy Ghost said to descend in this story, and in that in Act. 2. not but that he was present in the same places before, by his power and Godhead, but that he revealed and expressed his presence by so sensible an evidence, and by, and in so revea∣led a work.