66 Qi1efiioris,and Cafes of Confèience about the 1ngel$. Chap.á Quell. How manifold is the knowledge of the angels ? .4r.fr. Its fourfold. I. e. Natural, whereby they know the Works of Creation, and the ínvibble thinks ofGod in it all the truth in which they were created. II, z. Supernatural, which is fuch a light ofGod, whereby they are cónfirmed in their eilate, for there was in them fome further apprehenfion of God, than in Them that fell. Now they could not have it, unleffe they had receiv- ed it. III. Thirdly, a knowledge of Revelation, Dan.7.16,&c. 1V. Fourthly, a knowledge that they get byobferving things that come topaffe,1 both fpiritual and natural ; For beholding the graces of the Spirit, and work- ing ofthem, they gather an habitual knowledge, whereby they can difcern,both the Worker of them, and perfons in whom they are wrought effe lually : So, obfervingthe courfe of things cafual, they can probably foretel things which in part are cafual. Now the knowledge which the Apolle fpeaks of, that they have acquired, Eph. 3. io. is this knowledge of experience, beholding that which the Go- fpel wrought in the Church, they did more fully feethe workof Redemption. For, Cr. They did fee accompfdhed before their eyes things which they had known in Come fort ; as we know things abfent unaccompliíhed. z. They did thus grow toa morefull and confirmed enlightening, in the wife work of our Redemption. `3. And, which is the principal, theydid thus come to amore full know- .< ledge, and acknowledgment of the deep fiches of thewifdooae of God, the fountain of the former. For though the Angels had alwayes a bleffed knowledge of God ; yet not a perfea, either in regard of themfelves feeing, or ofGodfeen : they did not fee him totalizer, fo as there was no further thing inhim to be feen ; nor yet with fuch a fight in regard of themfelves ; fo pertea, that no further light could t. be lent to it then it had. Baines on the Eph. CHAP.
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