The righteous man's habitation in the time of plague and pestilence being a brief…

3ly. As they are an exceeding knowing and wise people, so they are also exceeding active and expeditious, quick in dispatches; who more fit to defend and protect the Saints and people of God, than those that are active, expedite and quick in their dispatches? such are the Angels. In the first of Ezekiel ye read, that every one had four wings; why? because of their great activity and expedition, and the quick dispatch they make in all their affairs.

Again; as they are an active and expeditious people, so they are a people very faithful both to God and man; in the 103. Psalm, they are ready to do Gods will, and not only ready to fulfil Gods will, but they do it; Bless the Lord all ye his Angels that excel in strength, (20. verse) that do his commandments, hearkening to the voice of his word. Bless ye the Lord all ye his hosts, ye ministers of his that do his pleasure. They are very faithful; and who so fit to do this work, to attend and look to the concernments of the Saints, and people of God, as those that are faithful.

Again; as they are an active and expeditious people, so they are a people very faithful both to God and man; in the 103. Psalm, they are ready to do Gods will, and not only ready to fulfil Gods will, but they do it; Bless the Lord all ye his Angels that excel in strength, (20. verse) that do his commandments, hearkning to the voyce of his word. Blesse ye the Lord all ye his hosts, ye ministers of his that do his pleasure. They are very faithful; and who so fit to do this work, to attend and look to the concernments of the Saints, and people of God, as those that are faithful.

3ly. As they are an exceeding faithful people, so they are a people that are very loving to the Saints and children of God, very loving; otherwise they were not fit to be their nurses: what is a nurse without love? they are loving to the Saints: Do is not (said the Angel unto John) I am thy fellow servant; don't give divine worship to me, I am thy fellow servant; fellow servants are loving to one another; they are fellow servants with the Saints. Are the Saints and people of God members of Christ, and is Christ their head? so is Christ the Lord of Angels; he is the Lord of Angels, and they follow him. In the first of Zechariah, the 8. verse; I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; these Myrtle-trees in the bottom,