Sermons preached on several occasionsSermons preach'd on several occasions

1. The Fall of the Angels is the first and most terrible Punishment of Sin. God spared not the Angels that sinned, but cast them down to Hell, reserved in Chains of Darkness to Judgment. How are they fallen? from what height of Glory and Felicity into bottomless Perdition? How are they continually racked and tormented with the Remembrance of their lost Happiness? If a thousand of the prime Nobility of a Nation were executed in a day, by the Sentence of a righteous King, we should conclude their Crimes to be atrocious: innumerable Angels, dignified with the Titles of ⟨p. 56⟩Dominions and Principalities, were expelled from Heaven, their native Seat, and the Sanctuary of Life, and are dead to all the joyful Operations of the intellectual Nature, and only alive to Everlasting Pain.

1. The Fall of the Angels is the first and most terrible Punishment of Sin. God spared not the Angels that sinned, but cast them down to Hell, reserved in Chains of Darkness to Judgment. How are they fallen? from what height of Glory and Felicity into bottomless Perdition? How are they continually rack'd and tormented with the Remembrance of their lost Happiness? If a thousand of the prime Nobility of a Nation were executed in a day, by the Sentence of a righteous King, we should conclude their Crimes to be atrocious: innumerable Angels, dignified with the Titles of ⟨p. 56⟩Dominions and Principalities, were expell'd from Heaven, their native Seat, and the Sanctuary of Life, and are dead to all the joyful Operations of the intellectual Nature, and only alive to Everlasting Pain.

One Sin of Pride or Envy, brought this terrible Vengeance; from whence we may infer, how provoking Sin is to the holy God. We read of King Uzziah, that upon his Presumption to offer Incense, he was struck with a Leprosy, and the Priests thrust him out, and himself hasted to go out of the Temple: a Representation of the Punishment of the Angels: by Presumption they were struck with a Leprosy, and justly expelled from the Celestial Temple; and not being able to sustain the Terrors of the Divine Majesty, they fled from his Presence. 'Tis said, God cast them down, and they left their own Habitation.