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

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 1 Pet. 3.21. which being terms that import Order, and Government, can scarce allow us not to conceive, that of all those numberless multitudes of glorious Creatures, that replenish and people those spacious Regions of Light, and Bliss, there are none, who belong not to some or other, of those Principalities and Dominions.

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 gratifie 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 supposititions Dionysius' his Celestial Hierarchy, or much less the idler dreams of Valentinus, and the Gnosticks about their Aeones, with divers more such fictions, yet we are not to neglect, what God hath expresly 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