Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applied unto unconverted sinners, and saints…Meditations and discourses concerning the glory of Christ applyed unto unconverted sinners, and saints…

5. THUS in the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth. He provided himself of two distinct Rational Families, that should depend on him according to a Law of Moral Obedience, and thereby give Glory to him; ⟨p. 131⟩with two distinct Habitations for them cognate unto their Nature and Use; Heaven above, and the Earth beneath. The Earth he appointed for the Habitation of Man, which was every way suited unto the Constitution of his Nature, the Preservation of his Being, and the End of his Creation in giving Glory to God. Heaven he prepared for the Habitation of the Angels, which was suited unto the Constitution of their Nature, the Preservation of their Being, and the End of their Creation in giving Glory to God. Wherefore as Man had Power and Dominion over all things here below, and was to use them all unto the Glory of God, by which means God received Glory from them also, though in themselves brute and inanimate; so the Angels had the like Dominion over the Celestial and Ethereal Bodies, wherewith God had fitted the Place of their Habitation, that through the Contemplation and Use of them, God might have a Revenue of Glory and Praise from them also. To suppose any other Race of Intellectual Creatures, besides Angels in Heaven, and Men on Earth, is not only without all Countenance from any Divine Testimony, but it disturbs and disorders the whole Representation of the Glory of God made unto us in the Scripture, and the whole Design of his Wisdom and Grace as declared therein. Intellectual Creatures not comprehended in that Government of God, and Mystery of his Wisdom in Christ, which the Scripture Reveals, are a Chimera framed in the Imaginations of some Men, scarce duly sensible of what it is to be wise unto Sobriety.

5. THUS in the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth. He provided himself of two distinct Rational Families, that should depend on him according to a Law of Moral Obedience, and thereby give Glory to him; ⟨p. 131⟩with two distinct Habitations for them cognate unto their Nature and Use; Heaven above, and the Earth beneath. The Earth he appointed for the Habitation of Man, which was every way suited unto the Constitution of his Nature, the Preservation of his Being, and the End of his Creation in giving Glory to God. Heaven he prepared for the Habitation of the Angels, which was suited unto the Constitution of their Nature, the Preservation of their Being, and the End of their Creation in giving Glory to God. Wherefore as Man had Power and Dominion over all things here below, and was to use them all unto the Glory of God, by which means God received Glory from them also, though in themselves bruit and inanimate; so the Angels had the like Dominion over the Coelestial and Aetherial Bodies, wherewith God had fitted the Place of their Habitation, that through the Contemplation and Use of them, God might have a Revenue of Glory and Praise from them also. To suppose any other Race of Intellectual Creatures, besides Angels in Heaven, and Men on Earth, is not only without all Countenance from any Divine Testimony, but it disturbs and disorders the whole Representation of the Glory of God made unto us in the Scripture, and the whole Design of his Wisdom and Grace as declared therein. Intellectual Creatures not comprehended in that Government of God, and Mystery of his Wisdom in Christ, which the Scripture Reveals, are a Chimera framed in the Imaginations of some Men, scarce duly sensible of what it is to be wise unto Sobriety.