Vasanos alåethinåe, the true touchstone which shews both grace and nature, or, A discourse concerning self examination, by which both saints and sinners may come to know themselves whereunto are added sundry meditations relating to the Lords Supper / by Nathanael Vincent ...

MEDITATION. XIV.

Whence is this to Man that a Saviour should be provided for him! Were there no Creatures fell besides? Yes an innume∣rable Host of Angels kept not their first estate but left their own Habitation.

The Angels that sinned were excellent and glorious in their first Creation, but they grew proud and Enemies to Truth; and voluntarily departed, and were justly banished from the Lord that made them. And when these Angels sinned, no mercy that we read of was extended to them. The Scripture expressely says, that God spared not the Angels that sinned, but cast them down to Hell. That was a dreadful fall indeed from the highest Heaven to the lowest Hell, those mighty Spirits are fettered in Chains of darkness, and are reserved unto the judge∣ment of the great day, they never that we find, had a Redeemer provided, nor a par∣don offered, nor after they had made themselves miserable, were they ever brought within the reach and possibility of Mercy. The Son of God took not on him

the nature of Angels, or, he took not hold of the Angels, but he took on him the seed of Abraham.