Anfw. As for the Wicked, it cannot be fuppofed, that the good Angels are for their Com pany. But that those who are truly pious, have every one his Angel always with him, is very probable, not only from all thofe Places beforementioned, where we find Angels ftill miniftring to the Saints in all Ages, as, Abraham, Lot, Jacob, Mofes, Joshua, Elijah, Cornelius, St. Peter, St. John, &c. but more efpecially from Acts xii. 15. Matthew xviii. 10. .. Hoc effe maximum exiftimo Beneficium, quod ab Ortu Nativitatis meæ Angelum Pacis ad me cuftodiendum ufque ad Finem meum dedit mibi Dominus. Auguft. US E. 1. Hence fee how much Kindness and Repect God hath for his People, fo as to fend his Angels to attend them. 2. Let us learn to imitate the Angels in praifing God. 2 In doing his Will, Pfal. ciii. 20, 21. Though it be by miniftring to our Inferiors. 3. Let us ftrive to get to Heaven, that we may be like them, Lake xx. 36. Jube JUDE 6. And, the Angels which kept not their firft Eftate, but left their own Habitation, he hath referv'd in everlasting Chains under Darkness, unto the Judgment of the great Day. SOME of the Angels fell from their first Eftate, 2 Pet, ii. 4. John viii. 44. Job iv. 18. I. What caused their Fall ? Sin be fure: And as it is generally thought, Pride. For, 1. This is the Sin they tempted Man to, Gen. iii. 5. 2. He is ftill proud; as appears from the Worfhip he hath tempted Men to give to him; yea, he would have had Chrift to have worshipped him, Matt. iv. 8, 9. contrary to the Temper of the good Angels, Apoc. xix. 10. cap. xxii. 8, 9. 3. The fpiritual and most excellent Nature of the Angels was more capable of, and liable to, this, than any other Sin; whence the Proud are faid to fall into the Condemnation of the Devil: 1 Tim. iii. 6. But this muft needs proceed from fome Error in Judgment, or at least Inconfiderateness. 2. Their Temper and Difpofition after their Fall. It is very corrupt and wicked, full of Hatred against God, and againft Man too, as bear 1 4 ing ing his Image; therefore he deftroyed Man at firft, and ftill endeavours to do it, 1 Pet. v. 8. Hence called Adßor, Rev, xii. 10. Whence Devil. Satan, Adverfarius, Job i. 9, 11. c. ii. 4, 5. Tea, the Tempter, Matt. iv. 3. Пopnes, the wicked One, Matt. xiii. 19, 39. Abaddon and Apollyon, a Deftroyer, Apoc. ix. 11. Beelzebub, Matt. X. 25. 11 the God of Flies, 2 Reg. i. 2, 6. Or elfe, the Dunghil God, the Idol; fo the Devil was called, because he was worshipped by the Heathens. בעל זבול, Whence we may obferve, That he who is, Malicious, That envies others Happiness, Or ftrives to do what Mischief he can to others, is like the Devil, the worst of all Creatures. 3. Notwithftanding their Fall, they have still great Knowledge and Power. 1. Knowledge, Mark i. 24. They know not Things to come to pass, unlefs it be by confidering the prefent Causes, and from probable Conjectures, Ifa. xli. 23. 2. Their Power alfo is great, Eph. vi. 11, 12. He hath Power over the Air, Epb. ii. 2. Job 19. They can do very ftrange Things, Exod. vii. 11, 12. Acts viii. 9, 10.. They have Power over Beafts, Mark v. 11, 13. And over wicked Men, 2 Tim. ii. 26. Epb. ii. 2. But good Men need not fear his Power; for he can do nothing to them without God the Fa t Father's Permiffion, Job i. 12. c. ii. 6. 1 Reg. xxii. 21, 22. Matt. viii. 31, 32. 4. How many of them are there? That they be very numerous, is plain from their being almoft in all Places; and from Luke viii. 30. a Legion is many Thoufands. But that there is fome Order and Discipline among them, is probable from their having a Kingdom, Matt. xii. 26. whereof one is faid to be Prince, Matt. ix. 34. So we read of the Devil and his Angels, Matt. XXV. 41. Apoc. xii. 7. 5. What was their Punishment? They were caft out of Heaven, 2 Pet. ii. 4. put then into Chains; but fo as they can ftill about, God's Displeasure not being yet fully. go executed upon them, Matt. viii. 29. Everlasting Fire is prepared for them at the End of the World, Matt. xxv. 41. US E. 1. The Devil being fo malicious and ready to tempt us, we had need be watchful, 1 Pe ter v. 8. 2. Refift his Temptations, Jac. iv. 7. especially by Faith, Eph. vi. 11, 12, 16. Luke xxii. 31, 32. 3. Have a Care of coming into the fame Condemnation with them, by Pride, Malice, or Uncharitableness, Matt, XXV. 41. ROM. ROM. V. 19. For as by one Man's Difobedience many were made Sinners. L AN was made in the Image of GOD, MAN 1. Partly in his Power and Dominion over all Terreftrial Gen. i. 19, 20. Creatures, Gen. i. 26, 28. In the Perfection of his Nature, indued 1. Knowledge, Col. iii. 9, 10. II. He was commanded not to eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, Gen.ii. 16. which was backed with a Threatning to keep his Senfes in Obedience and Subjection to his Reason. III. Man notwithstanding did eat of it. 1. Through Satan's Temptation; which was managed with great Cunning. 1. He enters into the Serpent, the fubtileft Creature, Gen. iii. 1. ୯ 2. Sets upon the Woman, the weaker Veffel, 1 Pet. iii. 7. 3. He propounds a doubtful Queftion, Genefis iii. 1. 4. Then |