Sacramental meditations upon divers select places of scripture

First, The Object of Worship, God; ¹God is to be feared: In all divine Worship Men and Angels have to do with God. All things (saith the Apostle) are open and naked to the eyes of him, with whom we have to do, Heb. 4. 13. with whom we have speech or business. So it may be sensed, when we Worship, we draw nigh to God, and that about the greatest concerns and weightiest business in the world.

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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,