Secondly, The Subject, or the Persons 1that approach unto God in his worship, his Saints, and all that are about him. By Saints, many Interpreters do in this place understand the Angels, called Saints from the purity and holiness of their Nature; and so make the next clause exegetical of this. Those that before were called Saints in respect of their Nature, are in the next words said to be such as are round about him; his Satellites, Attendants, or ⟨p. 4⟩those that stand as Servants about him, to do his pleasure where they are described by their Office; and both these seem to be grounded upon the precedent Verses. Who in the Heaven can be compared to the Lord? Who among the Sons of the Mighty (or of God) so the Angels are called, Job 1. 6. can be likened to the Lord? And though it be true, that the Angels worship and serve the Lord with greatest reverence and dread (for these are his nigh Ones, or such as are round about him) yet there is no necessity to limit this Scripture so narrowly, by excluding the people of God on Earth; they also are his Saints, and more frequently so styled, though they be Saints of a lower Class and Order; and they also are round about him as well as the Angels, and when they worship him, he is in the midst of them, Matth. 18. 20. and the place where they Assemble to worship, is called the place of his Feet, Isa. 60. 13. But if we find not the Saints on Earth in the direct and immediate sense of this Text, yet we must needs meet them in the rebound and consequence: For if Creatures so much above us as the Angels, do perform their ⟨p. 5⟩Service, and pay their Homage to the highest Majesty with so much fear and reverence, shall not inferior Creatures, the poor Worms of the Earth, tremble at his presence? And this brings us to the third thing.
Secondly, The Subject, or the Persons 1that approach unto God in his worship, his Saints, and all that are about him. By Saints, many Interpreters do in this place understand the Angels, called Saints from the purity and holiness of their Nature; and so make the next clause exegetical of this. Those that before were call'd Saints in respect of their Nature, are in the next words said to be such as are round about him; his Satellites, Attendants, or ⟨p. 4⟩those that stand as Servants about him, to do his pleasure where they are described by their Office; and both these seem to be grounded upon the precedent Verses. Who in the Heaven can be compared to the Lord? Who among the Sons of the Mighty (or of God) so the Angels are call'd, Job 1. 6. can be likened to the Lord? And though it be true, that the Angels worship and serve the Lord with greatest reverence and dread (for these are his nigh Ones, or such as are round about him) yet there is no necessity to limit this Scripture so narrowly, by excluding the people of God on Earth; they also are his Saints, and more frequently so stiled, though they be Saints of a lower Class and Order; and they also are round about him as well as the Angels, and when they worship him, he is in the midst of them, Matth. 18. 20. and the place where they Assemble to worship, is call'd the place of his Feet, Isa. 60. 13. But if we find not the Saints on Earth in the direct and immediate sense of this Text, yet we must needs meet them in the rebound and consequence: For if Creatures so much above us as the Angels, do perform their ⟨p. 5⟩Service, and pay their Homage to the highest Majesty with so much fear and reverence, shall not inferiour Creatures, the poor Worms of the Earth, tremble at his presence? And this brings us to the third thing.
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