A second volume of sermons preached by the late reverend and learned Thomas Manton…

I answer: For the good Angels, I think not. For the bad, the Scripture is express and plain.

1. For the good Angels, 'tis clear by what hath been said already, that they shall be present at this action, not to be judged, but to bring others to Judgment; as Officers, not as Parties. I suppose this, if men had continued in their Innocency, and Integrity of their Creation, such a day of universal Judgment had been needless, for then there had been none to be Condemned, because none had sinned; the Covenant of God would have been enough to have secured their Happiness: so the good Angels continuing in that state wherein they were Created, there is nothing doubtful about them, that needeth any judiciary Debate and discussion: and being already confirmed in the full fruition of God and Happiness, as to their whole nature, their estate is not to be put to any trial: whereas good men, though their Souls be in Heaven, yet their Bodies are not admitted there, some part of them as yet lieth under the effects of sin, and their glorification is private, and Gods goodness as yet hath not been manifested to them in the eyes of all the world, nor their uprightness sufficiently vindicated; therefore a Judgment needeth for them, but not for the Angels, who were never as yet censured and traduced in the world; and they in their whole nature and person enjoy most absolute felicity in Gods heavenly Sanctuary: No such great change will happen to them after the Judgment, as happeneth to the Saints when their whole persons are taken into glory. 'Tis true, they have a Charge and Ministry about the Saints, Heb. 1.14. But of that Ministry and Charge they give an account daily in the sight of God, to whom they do approve themselves in it: So that there is no cause for further inquisition concerning that thing, there being no necessity of Judgment concerning them; I think they shall not be Judged.

1. For the good Angels, 'tis clear by what hath been said already, that they shall be present at this action, not to be judged, but to bring others to Judgment; as Officers, not as Parties. I suppose this, if men had continued in their Innocency, and Integrity of their Creation, such a day of universal Judgment had been needless, for then there had been none to be Condemned, because none had sinned; the Covenant of God would have been enough to have secured their Happiness: so the good Angels continuing in that state wherein they were Created, there is nothing doubtful about them, that needeth any judiciary Debate and discussion: and being already confirmed in the full fruition of God and Happiness, as to their whole nature, their estate is not to be put to any tryal: whereas good men, though their Souls be in Heaven, yet their Bodies are not admitted there, some part of them as yet lyeth under the effects of sin, and their glorification is private, and Gods goodness as yet hath not been manifested to them in the eyes of all the world, nor their uprightness sufficiently vindicated; therefore a Judgment needeth for them, but not for the Angels, who were never as yet censured and traduced in the world; and they in their whole nature and person enjoy most absolute felicity in Gods heavenly Sanctuary: No such great change will happen to them after the Judgment, as happeneth to the Saints when their whole persons are taken into glory. 'Tis true, they have a Charge and Ministry about the Saints,