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And the man that stoode among the mirre trees, answe∣red, and said, these are they,* 1.1 whom the Lorde hath sent to goe through the world.
THe scope and drift of this vision is twofold, the one generall, the other particular, ver. 12. The general is heere expressed,
namelie that it might be declared, that whatsoeuer things fall out and are done in this world, come to passe by the prouidence of God, and that all things, which any where are done, are seene of God. Therefore he hath his ouerseers, and messengers, the which doe search, view and goe through, not onely this or that part of the earth, but the whole earth, that by and by like messengers, they may bring and report vnto him, what things soeuer are done in any place of the earth. Neither is there any creature, which is not manifest in his sight (as it is Hebr. 4. ver. 13.) but all things are na∣ked and open vnto his eyes, with whom we haue to doe. And these things by an Anthropopatheia are spokē of God,* 1.2 attributing vnto him the properties and qualities of men, who of himselfe needeth no messengers, but (as it is Psal. 113. ver. 6.) abaseth himselfe to be∣hold things in the heauen and in the earth.
The generall drift of this vi∣sion is to teach that God his prouidence hath a stroake in all things.
Anthropopa∣theia what it is, see Mich. cap. 7. ver. 8.