CHAP. 58.
It is vncertaine whether there be be any superioritie or differēces amongst the Angels. Also, some things there be which may breede argument and question concerning the Stars and Pla∣nets.
HOw it is in that blessed and heauenly societie, and what differences of persons there bee there, as wherein albeit all of that number are called as it were by that generall name of An∣gels (according as wee reade in the Epistle to the Hebrewes, For to whom of the Angels hath God at any time said, Sit on my right hand? whereby, hee compre∣hended all vnder that vniuersall name of Angels) yet notwith∣standing that there should bee some in that place that were called Arch-angels: and whe∣ther Page 138 those Arch-angels were called powers, whereupon that saying was grounded where it is said, Praise him all his Angels, prayse him all his Powers: as though hee should haue saide, Prayse him all his Angels, prayse him all his Arch-angels: As al∣so what difference there is a∣mongst those fower appellatiōs, vnder which the Apostle see∣meth to comprehend that vni∣uersal societie in heauen (saying, Whether the Thrones, whether the Kingdomes, whether the prin∣cipalities, whether the Powers) Let them say that can, if yet they proue that which they say: yet wil I acknowledge mine ig∣norance in all these things. Nei∣ther can I certainly say, whether the Sunne, the Moone, and al the Planets may be said to be of that heauenly societie, albeit they seeme vnto some to bee onely lightsome bodies, voyd of sense and vnderstanding.
