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

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, ⟨p. 8⟩are Saints in a low condition, And behold a man riding upon a red horse, this is Christ; and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him there were red horses, speckled, and white; behind him: mark, who are those red horses, speckled and white, (in the 9. verse) Then said I, oh my Lord, what are these? and the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will show thee what these be; and the man that stood among the myrtle trees, answered and said, these are they whom the Lord hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth. These are the Angels that stand behind Christ, that are the followers of Christ; they are his followers: the more union there is betwixt persons, the more they love; and as the union is, such is the love. If there be a natural union betwixt persons, their love will be natural; if their union be civil, political, their love will be political, civil; if the union be spiritual, ecclesiastical, the love is spiritual, ecclesiastical, more than natural. Now the union that is betwixt the Angels and the Saints, it is a Church union. Ye are come, says the Apostle in the 12 of the Hebrews, verse the 22. unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and Church of the first born:

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 Zachary, the 8. verse; I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtletrees that were in the bottom; these Myrtle-trees in the bottom,