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8. Moreover, the Godly have the most Honourable Attendance. The creatures are all theirs: though not in point of Civil propriety, yet as means appointed and managed by God their Father, for their best advantage. The Angels of God are ministering spirits for them: not as our servants, but as Gods servants for our good. As Ministers in the Church are not the servants of men, but the servants of God for men: And so whether Paul, or Apollo, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present or to come, all are ours.] 1 Cor. 3. 22. The Shepherds servant is not the servant of the sheep, but for the sheep. And so the Angels disdain not to serve God, in the guarding of the weakest Saints. As I formerly showed from Heb. 1. 14. & Psalm 91. 11, 12. & 34. 7. [The Angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. For he giveth his Angels charge over us, to keep us in all our ways: they shall bear us up in their hands, left we dash our foot against a stone.] Sun and Moon, and all the creatures, are daily employed in our attendance. O how wonderful is the Love of God to his unworthy servants, in their advancement! Remember it, when thou art scorning at the servants of the Lord, or speaking against them, that those poor, those weak despised Christians, that thou art vilifying, have their Angels beholding the face of God their Father in the Heavens: Take heed therefore that you despise not the least of these. It is the warning of ⟨p. 254⟩Christ, Matth. 18. 10. The same blessed spirits that attend the Lord, and see his face in blissful Glory, do attend and guard the meanest of the godly here on earth. As the same servants use to wait upon the Father and the children, in the same family, or the bigger children to help the less.

8. Moreover, the Godly have the most Horourable Attendance. The creatures are all theirs: though not in point of Civil propriety, yet as means appointed and managed by God their Father, for their best advantage. The Angels of God are ministring spirits for them: not as our servants, but as Gods servants for our good. As Ministers in the Church are not the servants of men, but the servants of God for men: And so whether Paul, or Apollo, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present or to come, all are ours.]