216 Twenty Reafonsfor denying Life. for our fecurity : It is their veryoffice: f®r what are they but minifiring fpirits, fent forth to,minifter for them that Aall heirs of falvation? Heb.t.14. They converfe with us, though eve fee them not, and are about us night and day ; They are among us in our holy affemblies , obferving our behavi- our before the Lord,, r Cor. II. 10. and they are wit- neffes of our good and evil, .Ecclef 5.6. From them, as the Servants of God, was the Law received, AM 7. 5 3. Gal,3 .1 9, 2.2. They read our books, and fludy withus the Myfte- ries of the Gofpel, i Pet. I. 12. And as neer as they are to God, they are glad tomake the Church their book in which to read his manifold wifdom, and know it by beholding it in us as in a giafs, Ephef. 3.10. The Nations have their Angels The Churches have their Angels; and the particular Saints alto have their Angels., Dan.10.1 3, 20, 21. Bev. 1.20 Zae 12. 15. Mat. 18. 10. They are not ftrangers with us, but have charge of as to keep us inall oar wives, Pfal.9t. to, I 1, 12. They rejoice in oar converfion, Luke 15. to. They are part of the heavenly Society that we are already lifted in, Heb.12.22. They afcend and defcend as ordinary paffengers between hea- ven andearth, Gen. z8. I z. They are round about us, and we live as in their Camp, Pfal. 34.7. Before them we must be confeffed or denied, Luke 12.8, 9. They convoy our departed fouls to Chrift, Lake 16. zz. They fhall attend Chrift at his fecond coming, as they proclaimed his firfi, and attended him onearth, Matth. 25. 31. 'Var. 8. 38. They shall be his He- ralds to call up the dead to judgement, Mat. 13. 39, 49. & 24. 31. And at tall we fhall be their companions and equal to them Luke 20. 36. So that you fee we have the fame Society invifible, which we fhall have in heaven : Yea and fometime when God is pleated, they manifeft their prefence by vifible or audible apparitions. And shall we fear to remove into the _pretence of thefe bleffed fpirits that now attendus, and are full about us, and the inftruments of fo much of our good ? Yea the Lord Jefus Chrift came down to be familiar with us , and to bring us into a Efate of friendfhip , and holy boldnefs with God himfel: And yet shall we draw back 17.1
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