employments and converfati_pns : There is their portion and ueaft1re, Matth. 6. 20, 2 I,. and there istheir very heart and b&~pt. They are ri(en with Chrift, and therefore feek. the things thAt are · I!Yove: Fortheir lifeuhi·dwith Chriftin God, Co/.3. 2, 3,4. · Their Root is the;·e : ~nd the noblefi part of the Society is there :· F0r theglorified Saints, ,and in fomc fort the Angels; are of the fame Socie(y with us ; though they are in heaven and we on~ eanh. T be whole family in Heaven 11nd earth u named from one and the fame Head, Eph. 3. 1 5. [ Heb. I 2. 22, 2 3. 24. We llre come unto Mo:SmtSion, ttnd unto the City of the living God, the · hMvtnly Jerufalem, cmd to an innumerable company of Angels ·, to.the General .Affembly and Church of the firft born' which are written in Hca1.1en, tmd to God the [udge of all, t,tndto the spirits of juft men mad( perfeil, and to [e{m the Mediator of the New Cove– rumt , and to the blood&j !prink.{ing , &c. J This is the Honour• able Society of Saints ; the eye, the pearl of the whol~ Creation. · 8. Moreove·(,~be Godlyh1tve the moll Horot:tr/!lblc Attnidance. The creatures are all theirs : though not in point of Civil pro– priety, yet as means appointed and managed by God their Fa.~ ther, tor tpeir beft advantage. The Angel$!)f God are miniftriPJl fPirits for them: not as our fervants, but as G11ds fervllnts for ()Ut ._r,ood. As Minijttr1 in the ChJ-trch are notthefervAnts of men, but the [frvrz ntJof God for men : And fo whether Paul, or Apollo, vr. Cephas, or the 'World, or life., 01· death, vr things prefent or to come, aft are ours.] I Car. 3. 22 .. Th~ Shepherds fervant is not the fervantof the/heep; butforthe/heep. ·And fothe Angelsd~fdain not to f12r-ve God , in thegoardi·ngof the weakeft Saints. As I formerly{hewed fromHeb. I. 14, & Pfalm 91. I I, 12. & 34·7· [The .Angel of the Lorden,ar.~peth round4bout them that fear him, and delivereth !hem. }'or he givnh his .Angels charge over m. to ktep us in ail our -wayu: they fha/l bear UJ· Np-in thei.,. hands,left we dafh our foot ac~ainft .~ ftone. J Sun and Moon , and aH the crea– ~ures~ are datly employed in our attendance. 0 how wonderful ts the Love of God to his unworthy ferva·nts , in their advance-. ment! Remember it, when thou ardcorning iitt the' fervants of the~ord, or fpeaking ag:~infi them, that tho1e poor, tbofe weak defp~fed Chrittiat>s, that thoa art vilifying, have their Angels be– holdmg the face of God their Father in the Heavens : Take heecl · therefore tb~ttyou. defPife not the leaft of. thefc. It is the warnjogof · K k 3 ' ·· · - ~brill~ __
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