A36326:119
The saints convoy to heaven a discourse occasioned
The saints convoy to heaven a discourse occasioned by (and in part preached upon) the death and funeral of Mr. Benjamin Lindsey, who deceased the 21st of February, 1697 / by Tho. Doolittle ...
London: printed for John Lawrence, 1698
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
6. The Object of their Ministration, or the Persons they are charged with: Such as shall be Heirs of Salvation.
Angel is a Word not so much to signify their Nature as their Office, that is to say, they are Messengers, to go at the Command of their Sovereign Lord, upon his Errands from Heaven to Earth, and back again from Earth to Heaven; Gen. 28. 12. And he dreamed, and behold a Ladder set upon the Earth, and the Top of it reached to Heaven, and behold, the Angels of God ascending and descending on it.
The Ministration of Angels in the Behalf of those that shall be Heirs of Salvation from their Birth to their Death,1 (yea, and sometimes before their Conception) is copiously treated of in Scripture, but from their Death to their Passage to Heaven, and afterwards, is more sparingly mentioned; but one Saying of Christ (as this concerning the Poor Man's Soul) is sufficient Evidence of their conveying of them from the Place where they die, to the Place where they shall live for ever.
- 1Gen. 18. 10. Judg. 13. 3, 4, 5. Luke 1. 11, 13, to 18.