Human nature in its fourfold state ... In several practical discourses

Secondly, The saints will have the society of all the holy angels there. And aumerable company of angels shall be companions to them in their glorified state. Happy were the shepherds, who heard the ⟨p. 304⟩song of the heavenly host, when Christ was born, but thrice happy they, who shall join their voices with theirs, in the choir of saints and angels in heaven, when he shall be glorified in all, who shall be about him there. Then shall we be brought acquainted with the blessed spirits, who never sinned. How bright will these morning-stars shine in the holy place! they were ministering spirits to the heirs of salvation, loved them for their Lord and Master's sake; encamped round about them, to preserve them from danger; how joyfully will they welcome them to their everlasting habitations; and rejoice to see them come at length to their kingdom, as the tutor doth in the prosperity of his pupils! The saints shall be no more afraid of them, as sometime they were wont to be: they shall then have put off mortality, and infirmities of the flesh, and be themselves, as the angels of God, fit to entertain communion and fellowship with these shining ones. And both being brought under one head, the Lord Jesus Christ; they shall join in the praises of God, and of the Lamb, saying, with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, &c. Rev. v. 11, 12. Whether the angels sha]l (as some think) assume airy bodies, that they may be seen by the bodily eyes of the saints, and be in nearer capacity to converse with them, I know not: but as they want not ways of converse amongst themselves, we have reason to think, that conversation, betwixt them and the saints, shall not be for ever blocked up.

Secondly, The saints will have the society of all the holy angels there. And aumerable company of angels shall be companions to them in their glorified state. Happy were the shepherds, who heard the ⟨p. 304⟩song of the heavenly host, when Christ was born, but thrice happy they, who shall join their voices with theirs, in the choir of saints and angels in heaven, when he shall be glorified in all, who shall be about him there. Then shall we be brought acquainted with the blessed spirits, who never sinned. How bright will these morning-stars shine in the holy place! they were ministring spirits to the heirs of salvation, loved them for their Lord and Master's sake; encamped round about them, to preserve them from danger; how joyfully will they welcome them to their everlasting habitations; and rejoice to see them come at length to their kingdom, as the tutor doth in the prosperity of his pupils! The saints shall be no more afraid of them, as sometime they were wont to be: they shall then have put off mortality, and infirmities of the flesh, and be themselves, as the angels of God, fit to entertain communion and fellowship with these shining ones. And both being brought under one head, the Lord Jesus Christ; they shall join in the praises of God, and of the Lamb, saying, with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain, &c.