Of Angels.
ANgels are spiritual creatures, compleat and im∣mortall, yet finite: Heb. 1. 13, 14. Col. 1. 16. Mat. 4. 11. & 26. 53. Psal. 68. 17. Mat. 22. 30. Luke 20. 36. Heb. 1. 7. Psal. 104. 4.
A little cabinet richly stored with all sorts of heavenly varieties, and soul-reviving influences.: Wherein there is a remedy for every malady, viz. milk for babes, and meat for strong men, and the ready way for both to obtain and retain assurance of salvation: being an abridgement of the sum and substance of the true Christian religion; wherein the cause of our salvation, the way, the guide, the rule, the evidence, the seals, &c. and the connection of these points together, and dependancy of them one upon another: this I have endeavoured to do orderly, exactly, methodically, with much plainness and clearness. / By Robert Purnell.
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- A little cabinet richly stored with all sorts of heavenly varieties, and soul-reviving influences.: Wherein there is a remedy for every malady, viz. milk for babes, and meat for strong men, and the ready way for both to obtain and retain assurance of salvation: being an abridgement of the sum and substance of the true Christian religion; wherein the cause of our salvation, the way, the guide, the rule, the evidence, the seals, &c. and the connection of these points together, and dependancy of them one upon another: this I have endeavoured to do orderly, exactly, methodically, with much plainness and clearness. / By Robert Purnell.
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- Purnell, Robert, d. 1666.
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- 1657.
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"A little cabinet richly stored with all sorts of heavenly varieties, and soul-reviving influences.: Wherein there is a remedy for every malady, viz. milk for babes, and meat for strong men, and the ready way for both to obtain and retain assurance of salvation: being an abridgement of the sum and substance of the true Christian religion; wherein the cause of our salvation, the way, the guide, the rule, the evidence, the seals, &c. and the connection of these points together, and dependancy of them one upon another: this I have endeavoured to do orderly, exactly, methodically, with much plainness and clearness. / By Robert Purnell." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A91363.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024.
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There be two sorts of Angels, first good, se∣condly bad.
The good Angels they praise God, worship the Son, they are heavenly messengers from the Fa∣ther to defend the faithfull, they have wrestled, eaten, been received as strangers, had their feet washed, they shall gather the elect from the four corners of the earth, they shall come with Christ to judgement, they be excellent creatures.
- 1. For their nature, Isaiah 6. 2. Daniel 9. 21. 2 Thes. 1. 7.
- 2. For their gifts, 2 Sam. 14. 17. Mat. 6. 10. Luk. 15. 10. 1 Cor. 13. 1.
- 3. For their offices, Dan. 7. 10. Rev. 5. 11.
- 4. They be excellent for their estate, Mat. 18. 10.
- 5. They be wise and of great understanding: 2 Sam. 14. 20.
They were the first creatures that ever God made; there be also severall orders of Angels, viz. Archan∣gels, Cherubims and Seraphins; yet lay all these things together, it will appear that righteousness of An∣gels is but the righteousness of creatures; but the righteousness that the Saints are cloathed with, is the very righteousness of Christ, and in this respect the meanest Saint is more excellent, then the most glorious Angel in heaven: they are by God sent forth for the good of his people, hence they are called ministring spirits, and they minister to the Saints many wayes.
In their life, by defending them from their ene∣mies; the Angels of the Lord pitch their tents about them that fear him, Psal. 34. 7.
An Angel it was that slew the army of the Assy∣rians.
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That delivered Peter out of prison, as also preserved Lot, Psal. 91. 11. For he shall give his Angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy wayes, Gen. 32. 5. An Angel encouraged Iacob, when he feared his brother Esau, an Angel it was, Luke 1. 30. who bid Mary not to fear, and who stood by Paul and bid him be of good cheer, Act. 27. 24. By an Angel was the incarnation of Christ foretold to the Virgin, and by a multitude of An∣gels was it proclaimed; afterwards an Angel leads Philip to expound the Scripture to the Eunuch, sets Peter at liberty to preach the Gospel, bids Cornelius send for Peter to be instructed by him, and prayes Paul to come over to Macedonia to help them; none are so nobly attended as Saints, they have a life∣guard of Angels to encompass them about; Angels are as carefull of the faithfull, as a nurse of her suck∣ing child, they bear them up in their arms, that they dash not their feet against a stone.