. Encyclopædia britannica : or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature : constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises or systems ... ■i/riitiii •/>irj iii/i r. /ntni/rtyi .. cH//)/,-r/nit. fiulhcl. BUS [79 fome controvcrfy among the learned. Tliofe wlio fiip-pofe it no more lli?.n an angel ftcm to imjjly that itwould be a diminntion of the majclly of God, to ap-pear upon every occafuiM, efpccialjy when lie has fucha number of celelliul minillors, who may do the buli-nefs as well. But confidering that G
. Encyclopædia britannica : or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature : constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises or systems ... ■i/riitiii •/>irj iii/i r. /ntni/rtyi .. cH//)/,-r/nit. fiulhcl. BUS [79 fome controvcrfy among the learned. Tliofe wlio fiip-pofe it no more lli?.n an angel ftcm to imjjly that itwould be a diminntion of the majclly of God, to ap-pear upon every occafuiM, efpccialjy when lie has fucha number of celelliul minillors, who may do the buli-nefs as well. But confidering that God is prefent e-vevy where, the notification of his prefence by fomcoutward fign in one determinate pkce (which is allwe mean by his appearance), is in our conception Icfslaborious (if any thing laborious could be conceived ofGod) than a delegation of angels upon every turn fromheaven, and feems in the main to illudrate rather thandebafe the glon of his nature and cxiftence. But how-ever this be, it is plain that the angel here fpokcn ofwas no created being, from the whole ctmtext, and e-fpecially from his laying, I am the Lord God, theJeliovah, &c. fince this is not the language of angels,who are always kiu)wn to exprefs themfelves in fuchhumble terms a
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