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R.
10.
Eplhefam,
Chap.;.
and
Powers
be about our King.and
Princes, that they may be
prefer
-
ved and inclined
to that which
may be comfortable for
Church
and
Commonwealth.
3.
The third
thing
to
be marked
is
this,that
he faith,they learned
by
the
Church,
by
feeing and
beholding the Church gathered; obferve,
That
we
have the
ví
ngells
eye witneOfes
of
us;
that
they
fee
the
things
Doti,
done
in
the
church
ofGod.
t Cor.
rt.
i
o.
The
woman
ought
to
have
pow-
er
on
her head,
becaufe
of the
loage
/ls.
This
was
fhadowed
out
in
the
fes
of
what
s
old
Church,
Exod.
3t.
Thecurtainesof
the tabernacle
were
pi
`iuredfull
drreinrhe
of
Chcrubims
to fignify
this,thatabout
us
who
are
the true
tabernacle
Church
of
God.
and
Church
of
God
,
there
are troupes
of
Angels. And this
their
Heb.
r.
4.
names
doe warne;
it
bring
their
ófgce to
bee
miniflring Spirits
fir
the
yr
good
ofthen:whofhallbeheyres
of
falvation.
This
therefore mull teach
us
reverently to carry our
felves
,
`efpeci-
,
T;,,, ex.
ally
in
the
affemblies:
let women come
v.iyled
,
becaufe
of
the
An-
gels,&
Paul
doth charge
Timothy
a's
before God
&
lefus
Chrifl,fo
be-
fore his
elea
Angels,teaching us,thatthe confideration
of
them
(hould
bind
us
to
be carcfull.
If
grave men are
a
bridle to
us
,
what would
troupes
ofglorious Angeis,if
we
could
with
the
eyes
of
faith
fee
them
prefentr
Let
us
therefore
in
this Sadduce
-like
age pray
,
that
fiat
we
may
have
a reverence
of
God, then
of
his
Angels among
us,
that
fo
we
may endeavour to walke
as
befeemeth thofe info great
a
prefence.
4.
That
thefe Angels come
by that
which they
fee in
the
Church
to
further knowledge,
this
doth
teach
us:
Dsá.
That
tho(e who
enjoy
the
ble
f
d
fight
of
God,
have
not
by
vertue
of
this
joy
that
en_
s
er
eti
knowledge
e
all
thins.
The
Angels beholding the
face
of
l `he
Gcned
p
f
$
f
g
g
view
of
God
God,
did
not
know things,
as
afterward they come
to
know
them,
doe
not
there_
they
did not know
and
acknowledge the wifdoine
of
God
fo
as
it
was
ty
tgs.wall
chinos.
afterward
revealed.
There
is
obferved
a
fourefold knowledge
of
the
Angels.
A
£gore
-fold
t.
The
first
is
naturali, which maketh them know the works
of
knowledge
in
Creation
and
the
invifible
things
of
God in it,
all
the truth
in
Angels.
which
they were created.
2.
A fupernaturall,
which
is
fuch
a
fight
of
God
,
whereby they
are
confirmed
in
their citate, for there
was
in
them fome
fur-
ther apprehenfion
of
God,
then
in
thofe
that
fell:
Now they
could
not
have
it
unies
they had received
it.
3. A
knowledge
of
revelation, Dan.
6.
4.
A
knowledge which they get
by
obferving things
that come
to
paffe,both fpirituall and naturali:for beholding the graces
of
the
Spirit and
working
of
tll,m,
they gather
an
habitual!
knowledge whereby they
can
áifcerne both the worker
of
rhetn,
and perfons in
whom they
are
wrought
effectually: So
obferve the courfe
of
things cafuall, they
can
probably fore-
The Angel`
profit
incape-
tell things which
in
part
are
cafuall.
;n entail
-
Now
this
knowledge
here
is
this knowledge
of
experience, behol-
nowiedgebÿ
ding
that
which
the Gofpell wrought
in
the Church
,
they did more
¡;e
¡
tr
ú°
fully
fee
the work
of
Redemption.
For,
t.They.