FOrasmuch as it may conduce much to our Comfort and Admonition, to contemplate this Subject touching the Angelical Powers, we shall not intermit in these our Discourses of the Internal part of Christianity to speak somewhat thereof, although an exact knowledg herein is un∣doubtedly reserved to Eternity; Howbeit, some things in this case are re∣vealed in the Scriptures, as necessary to be known by the Christian Man, in via, whose duty it is to hold such of them in execration, as shall prove themselves inimical to the Gospel of God, Gal. 1. 4, 8. and whose ho∣nour it shall be to judg them, when God shall bring to Light all the hid∣den things of Darkness, 1 Cor. 6. 3. And that we may not wander in∣to scrutinies which are unnecessary, we shall content our selves with the brief consideration of these ensuing Particulars.
- 1. Of their Original.
- 2. Their Dignity, and great Number.
- 3. The Apostasie of some of them.
- 4. The envy of the Apostate against Man.
- 5. The Office and Care of the Good to such as fear God.
- 6. The final Estate of Angels both Good and Bad.