NExt (the Zonaei) are the Angels. Arnobius saith of Hosthanes,* 1.1 (one of the Persian Magi, who received their Learning from the Chaldaeans) that he knew the Angels Ministers and Messengers of God (the true God) did wait on his Majesty, and tremble as afraid, at the Beck and Countenance of the Lord; the Zoroastrian Oracles mention reductive Angels,* 1.2 which reduce Souls to them, drawing them from several things.
The next are Daemons; Of these thea 1.3 Chaldaeans hold some to be good, others bad.b 1.4 The good, they conceive to b•• Light; the bad Darknesse. That there are good Daemons, natural reason tells us; Oracle:
Nature perswades that there are pure Daemons. The bourgeons even of ill matter are beneficial and good.
Nature, or natural reason, saith Pletho, perswades, that the Daemons are holy, and that all things proceeding from God, who is good in himself, are beneficial: if the bloomings of ill matter (viz. of last substances) are good, much more are the Daemons such, who are in a more excellent rank, as partaking of Rational nature, and being mixed with Mortal na∣ture.