The sum of sacred divinity briefly & methodically propoundedThe summe of sacred diuinitie briefly & methodically propounded

And as the measure of their Wisdom and Holiness did excel, so did the measure of their happiness in like sort: whereunto the place where they were set to inhabit, did much avail, they being celestial Spirits, and having their abode in Heaven; we terrestrial, dwelling upon the Earth, and in Houses of Clay. The like, though not in the like proportion, there was between the Angels themselves, some being more glorious then the rest: It seemeth no common dignity which is given ^fto one of them to be GABRIEL, that is, the mighty Power of God to stand before Gods presence. And PAUL, Coloss. 1. 16. reckoneth up Thrones, Dominions, Principalities, and ⟨p. 79⟩Powers, as degrees of that their glory, which the disjunctive particles, whether, and or it may well be thought, do import: and hither may be drawn that of Paul to the ^gThessalonians, that the Lord himself shall come down from Heaven, with the voice of an Arch-angel; that is, of a chief and principal Angel. So was it also between Eu• and Adam, 1. Tim. 2. 12, 13.

And as the measure of their Wisedome and Holinesse did excell, so did the measure of their happinesse in like sort: whereunto the place where they were set to inhabit, did much auayle, they being celestiall Spirits, and hauing their abode in Heauen; we terrestriall, dwelling vpon the Earth, and in Houses of Clay. The like, though not in the like proportion, there was betweene the Angels themselues, some being more glorious then the rest: It seemeth no common dignity which is giuen ^fto one of them to bee GABRIEL, that is, the mighty Power of God to stand before Gods presence. And PAVL, Coloss. 1. 16. reckoneth vp Thrones, Dominions, Principalities, and ⟨p. 79⟩