A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto

Let us only consider them all, as intelligent, Spiritual, Beings, full of Holy Light, Life, active Power, and Love to their common Lord, and one another. And can we imagine their state to be a State of torpid silence, idleness, and inactivity, or that they have not much higher, and nobler work to do there, than they can have, ⟨p. 147⟩in such a World as this, or in such bodies, as here, they lug to and fro!

Let us only consider them all, as intelligent, Spiritual, Beings, full of Holy Light, Life, active Power, and Love to their common Lord, and one another. And can we imagine their state to be a State of torpid silence, idleness, and inactivity, or that they have not much higher, and nobler work to do there, than they can have, ⟨p. 147⟩in such a World as this, or in such bodies, as here, they lugg to and fro!

And the Scriptures are not altogether silent, concerning the distinct orders of those glorious Creatures, that inhabit all the Heavens, with this upper Hades, must be understood to contain. Tho' it hath not provided to gratify any ones curiosity, so far as to give us particular accounts of their differences, and distinctions. And though we are not warranted to believe such conjectures concerning them, as we find in in the supposititious Dionysius' his Celestial Hierarchy, or much less the idler dreams of Valentinus, and the Gnostics about their Aeons, with divers more such fictions, yet we are not to neglect, what God hath expressly told us, viz. That giving us some Account of ⟨p. 148⟩the Creation, in the Hades, or the invisible part of it; there are Thrones, Dominions, Principalities, Powers, Angels, (and elsewhere Archangels, Authorities, Col. 1.16. with