Book I. Chap·3·4. .* Z,mriJ. . gels.arc nut limply Spirits as God is, who is a fpirit mort fiml?k, without any compo fi. fupra.. ubr '!ona.tall, nor are thty IOhnttc.or Tmmenfc_,as God 1s, b<tt are terminated in their dimen- ~"""'"' fri•'i. hons, audmovc from place to place-as bbd1es do; Hence ~ Z•nchy 1 pproves rather 0 f the '"'• q•an~• fir ~".ticnt~ than ."f rhc Scboolmcn, That A":$els are ·not fimply and altogether incorporeal, only Sermode- ·~· t<•elr bodus (faith he) &e WJI eart/;ly, mr a<rj, n>r heavenly , as the Stoick,twoidd have tbem tbmufpr~"••lr. for call filch bodiei were cre.mdof tb.lt Chaos, Gen. I• I ~ hut rather ar the Empireal beav"; "• '""'"l""' . . I fl bI f diffi ji aliq~tid difiin - ·u a tdJlprJre..z U: 1 «1tce' ur. J t,·cnt rom tJJe~ nwtht.r he."ZVC111 1J.ifible tf1 1 it,JO tiJe Angel-.r, ll.xm cnntra m zde J.togctber n'ttL• tb.2t bcaven., are corpJreal fupftanCu,far'purer, and niorejitbtil than either camm& !••· urth,or ayr,or fire,or tbe mallei' of thefe vifible·bcavcm. I w11l not fay, they art of the fam-e l"'"'~' :P-'"· body, bttr !hey may hav.elike bodies to that glorious boBy of·the higheH heaven or ftat P""''"J' 6"'"· t. h b' fl'd d c · " n. f · ' ' Luke, 439 • •O t b >e e.;· an ,o·tnrc,pcc.o Us,•orof our crafsbodics; thcymaybecalledpurc 1and mtghry !pairs. ' · L ' , · • CHAP. II!. Of the feco"d Do{/rine. I 2' y· He offi<~oj be Ange/1 is to minifter and[<rve: It i~ twe, !lw)! ore called Prni– Eph.uo~I i cipalitics, Pow<rs, Mights, Thrones, Dominions; !o_rhc Apolllc fpea~sof • ChriH, That /;e IV" fit at Godr right hand i;J h-.vwly placeJ ,Jar above aU Principalitiu, awLPo,.·ers, and Might, and Dominion. .And l•y him w<re aU Colortu<l. thin;,s created in !Jcavw, whether 'ihronn, vr Dominions, or Principol·itiu, or /:'owers: by all which, thonghwe underHand not divers dignities of Angels, whereby in nature they ex– cel ooe ,a;,Oiher, yet·we moll needs underHand the dignity, eil'cellency,atithotity,and pow– ·cr i ' of·'e'very one of the An~tls: Arid yet this hindersnot, but that thefe mightypowe~s are mini.lringfpiritr; a~d there. fore •in other plaas ofScnpture we hnd other titles g1ven to them; ., lomeumes they are called Watchets, I (arv in the Vifions of my he,d, and behold • WJtcfm, a,,d _,, H.ty One came donn fr<rr> heaven: And tornetim~s they a~e calltd Souldllr&, A11djitdde"'y lu'e 2. ·~· there was with the Angel a multitude of heavenly SoHidiers (or of the H,lvenly ffoJf!) praljing G~d. Moll tr~quently they ~re called Angels, which _is ~~ l name _of ~hm Gen.28.12. nature, but of their office ; the word hglllhes a Meffenger, as 11 tl>ty were ever ruu– ning arrands~twixt heaven and earth :~o Jacob drcamrd"'f a Ladder {<tor. eartb,n·hufc trp rt<Tchrd tobcavw, a11tl beholttt!Je Angels of God afce'!diug, a11d defwrd~>g 011 it. !\ow this is clear,tha,t Watcht>'s,Souldtcrs, and MefJeugcri, are but M11uftets and fovant;. If 1t be ~~;;~.~~·.~. ~::~~~~ ;~';:i~st~h~,h~~;~,~~~~~~::~.:~;.~J:~:t~:~~~e~o~~N; ~~~d~o;b:~,~~~t~e~a~!· Revcl.s., 2> ; of G"od,to•celciPratt the praifes ofGod ,.ad ofJrfus Cbrijl;and in 'nfpdl ot mcn,they do th<m ;." .... ·-:.··· many offices ot love a11d leJvice,which we ihall difcover in the latt point;for,arubry ttot mi11ifll'ingfP.iritJfentforth to minijlcr unto them,I fay unto them,Whojha/1 bebeirs of S~l~atim• . : ' .. CHAP. IV. Of the third Dq{/rine• .. 'U 3· THe higbcj! Ang. tl is 1101 exempted from this office. Are they not all] mii:ijlriizg , SpiritJ? It IS not one, nor ten, nor an hundred, nor a thoufand, bm oU, Angels and Archangels,Princ;palities and Powers, Thrones and Domi· ·Al'1.17,~i; ., .• . nions, are aU minijlring Spiritr. A qucfiion there is 1. Of the order of ~· . · An~els; and if that be adn:>itted, 2· Whether the chief ofthat order may beconfider.>d ._ ..: .. ·"':' 'asJminiftring fpi1its? · 1 _ For the lirH, DionyjiM (l will not fay the Areopagite) tells of nine-orders, becaufe of .: ~ ·.. -~ ''n)nel#brd-:, in Sctip!ure relating to the Angels, as Seraphipli, Cferttbims, -Thronu, Pow~ 1 '· 1, ., , ert' 'I.Ploafts, •DomiHions, Priucipalities, Archangelr, and .tbigeii·;"and ai large he defcribcs :.~~-", • tli;ir·feveral naturcs;dittintfions,propertics;as that the firft three Orders·arc for immediate ' · . •·1 ' attenda_n~c of the Al~ighty, and the nclitthre~orders, for'il\e gencral'goverment ofthe 1 ,} .,:'::" . c(e:ttlires, and the lafi three ordm,.for the parttcular good.·ot <Sods El~C'I: r that the Ar· ·' .\ _ oA·» ·' · ; ' '·· changels . :'(.' ..
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