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

And they that rest not Night or Day from such high and glorious employments, have they nothing to do? Or will we say or think, because we see not how the Heavenly Potentates, lead on their bright Legions, to present themselves before the Throne, to tender their obeisance, or receive commands and dispatches to this or that far remote Dynasty —; or (suppose) to such and such a mighty Star (whereof there are so numberless myriads. And why should we suppose them not replenished with glorious Inhabitants?) Whither they fly as quick ⟨p. 151⟩as thought, with joyful speed, under the All-seeing Eye, glad to execute wise and just commands upon all occasions. But alas! in all this we can but darken Counsel with words without knowledge. We cannot pretend to knowledge in these things; yet if from Scripture intimations, and the concurrent reason of things, we only make suppositions of what may be, not conclusions of what is; let our thoughts ascend as much higher as they can. I see not why they should fall lower than all this. And because we cannot be positive,

And they that rest not Night or Day from such high and glorious employments, have they nothing to do? Or will we say or think, because we see not how the Heavenly Potentates, lead on their bright Legions, to present themselves before the Throne, to tender their obeysance, or receive commands and dispatches to this or that far remote Dynasty —; or (suppose) to such and such a mighty Star (whereof there are so numberless myriads. And why should we suppose them not replenish't with glorious Inhabitants?) Whither they fly as quick ⟨p. 151⟩as thought, with joyful speed, under the All-seeing Eye, glad to execute wise and just commands upon all occasions. But alas! in all this we can but darken Counsel with words without knowledge. We cannot pretend to knowledge in these things; yet if from Scripture intimations, and the concurrent reason of things, we only make suppositions of what may be, not conclusions of what is; let our thoughts ascend as much higher as they can. I see not why they should fall lower than all this. And because we cannot be positive,