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A05807	Two sermons The angell guardian. The light enlightening. Preached by Iohn Bayly ...	Bayly, John, 1595 or 6-1633.	1630 (1630)	STC 1601; ESTC S101096	9,574	22

Iob. 38.7 Heb. 1.7 Deut. 4.10 and in regard of vs moreouer they are called watch-men continually as my text speakes encamping themselues about vs. To this it 's replied that these we haue now lastly spoken of are names in generall giuen vnto all the Angells True But is not the name of Angell it selfe a generall name and why then should they make a distinct order of Angells from the rest We doe not deny but that there are diverse orders and degrees of Angells God is the God of order noe author of Confusion he doth not approve of ataxie There is order among all the creatures of God even in hell it selfe there is some vnrulye order there is a Prince of darkenesse One starre differreth from another in glorye 1. Cor. 15.40 and there are diverse mansions prepared for the Elect in heauen and yet the elect shall be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Angells be there Math. 22.3 It is not therefore vnlike but that as the starrs and as the Saints the Angells may differ in mensura gloriae among themselues in degrees of glory non gaudij though not of ioyes But to define as you heard the schoolemen doe in particular wherein this same diversitye cōsisteth as if they had come downe from heauen to tell men vpon earth what order was kept there we say things secret belong vnto the Lord our God but things revealed only vnto vs. Or with Saint Hierome dicant qui possunt lett them say it that can proue it I confesse I doe not know it Boni Theologi est semper aliquid ignorare This is ignorantia originaliter invincibilis and therefore not Culpabilis Why is it Esay 6.2 that the Angells are there described thus with one paire of wings they cover their faces and with an other paire their feete doubtlesse to teach vs that we in via are no way able to prye into the nature of the Angells no nor the Angells in patria into the essence and nature of God who as he is infinite may not be comprehended by them they are finite Difference there is of glory among the Angells but what that difference is we know not the schoolemen will tell you if they lye not and further of what order and degree those Angells are which as my text speakes doe encampe themselfes about vs. Which is the 2d pointe we proposed to intreate of To this end they doe distinguish those 9. orders of Angells wee speake of into 2. generall sorts Some they make of the privie Chamber as it were and some they place in the Lobbye some they tell vs are assistant and some are ministring spirits Assistant spirits are such as doe continually reside about and attend vpon the throne of God Ministring spirits are such as are sent out or imployed on errands in the inferior world Now the 4. first orders of seraph Cher throanes and dominations they state to be assistant The 5. later to be Ministring spirits And yet I take it to be no contradiction to say That the same Angell at the same time though not in the same respect is both ministring and assistant too Greg. l. 2. Mor c. 3. faciem patris semper vident for their assistancye tamen ad nos veniunt for their ministrye But Saint Paule makes this a meere tale Heb. 1.14 Where he tells vs of the Angells that they are all ministring spiritts Omnes sunt administratorii spiritus Heb. 1.14 ordina sic literam sayes Hugo Cardinalis vpon that text reade it thus They are all etiam de superiori ordine of the highest degree ministring spirits sent out and that missione exteriori a Cherub it was that was sett to keepe the way vnto the tree of life and a seraphim it was who with a cole in his hand did some times touch the Prophets lippes Esay 6.6 Intelligere autem proprie debemus ea scripturae loca quae sine incommodo sic possunt intelligi it is S. August rule wee must vnderstand what the scripture speakes according to the letter of the text if we find no plaine in convenience of contradiction vnto other places in it Gen 3.24 You haue heard then that there is no order of Angells Supposing that there be orders of Angells exempted from encamping as my text speakes about them that feare God The third thing that wee are to intreate of is whether there be one Angell Guardian only or more assigned to attend vs pro singulis generum you must take it The Platonists did teach as I haue read in Proclus that every man had three special Angells in this kind to attend vpon him The 1. was sacer daemon and he had chargde over the reasonable soule to inspire good thoughts and wholesome councells and to encline the will of them over whom their chardge was to performe that which they did suggest for good The 2d was Genius And he had chardge over the outward life to promote and further them vnto whom he was assigned towards the attaynement of that fortune indefinitely good or bad vnto which as they spake the borne was destinate He therefore that had a good Genius was proverbially sayd to be bene natus Albae Galinae filius happy and fortunate in all his actions The 3d was spiritus Professionis and his office it was to helpe and further men in their speciall callings and trades of life Hence it was that if the profession which men betooke themselves vnto was also agreeing to the Genius of their nativity or birth such men they taught must needs be excellent and singular in what they did apply themselues vnto as having both their Genius inclining and their spiritus Professionis to helpe them in it vis vnita fortior But if any man should attempt a thing Invita Minerva contrarie vnto his Genius doe his spiritus Professionis the best it can he shall never evade rare or excellent therin This I haue related not that I doe aproue it but that you may see how that the heathen did know ingenerall although they erred in the particular Concerning this doctrine of Angellicall protection we are now to intreate of Est Chorus Indigetum mortalibus additus agris that we are protected by the Angells that is true but whether by one or more that is questioned by more then one For sometimes in scripture wee reade of many Angells appointed vnto one man sometimes of one Angell vnto many men sometimes of one Angell vnto one man too Gen. 32.1 We reade that Iacob sawe a whole hoste of Angells round about him And 2. Kings 6.17 Elishaes servant sawe the mountaynes full of horses and fier full of Angells about the Prophet Againe We read that an Angell in the singular was sent to deliuer all Israell and they were plurall out of Egipt And at the seige of Ierusalem by Senacherib God sent an Angell that slew 185000. of the Assirians their enemyes in one night And againe it is not improbable that

vnto every one man their is some one particular Angell pro certo asserrere non Ausum so Calvin sententiam magis probabilem dicit Zanchius Aquinas noster reformatus it is not I say improbable but that vnto every particular man is assigned some particular Angell as his Guardian and protector Our saviour intimates thus much Math 18.10 their Angells Distinctiue so the fathers do expound it behould the face of my father which is in heaven And when S. Peter whom the disciples thought to haue bin fast enough in Herods prison came vnto the dore where they were assembled Act. 12.15 they sayd that it was not Peter but his Angell and they spake doublesse according to the opinion then commonlye receaved in the Church The Evangelist relates it as approving of it S. Peter did not after wards reproue them for it The Iewes are of the opiniō vnto this day so are all the auncient fathers of the Christian Church nor may we but give great reverence vnto their opinions in such things as doe not opugne the rule of fayth as this doth not When as therefore wee cannot denye but that there are many and must needs graunt that there is one Angell at the least assigned to attend to defend to protect those that feare God The moderne learned doe subscribe vnto Zanchius his conclusion That ther is one Angell ordinarily assigned vnto every one man as a Tutor or protector of him in all his waies via pueritiae adolescentiae aetatis virilis mortis ab ovo ad malum even from his birth vnto his death but for our greater confort as it fared sometime with Iacob and Elisha when many enemies doe bandie themselues against vs we must beleiue if wee feare him as they did God will send whole legions and Hostes of Angells to assist vs. But because God is most mercifull and therefore willing and Almighty and therfore able of himselfe without any such intermediat encamping of Angells to preserue them that feare him Nor are wee to multiply entityes without necessitye This doctrine may peradventure seeme to be superfluous we proposed therefore to answere this obiection in the last place which wee doe endeauor thus Agents subordinate we say may well concurre in the working of one and the same effect 'T is God wee graunt that doth protect vs ratione g●ber nationis but by his Angells he doth protect vs ratione executionis as the Fathers speake For looke into my text and it tells you not simplie of any Angell but of the Angells of the Lord with an addition for the Angells performe not this office vnto vs but as they are sent and enabled for this cause from God They encampe not of themselues but where their emperour commandeth them Agens per mediū est minus efficax in agendo you may tell me that an agent working by some intermediate meanes and not immediatly or by it selfe is lesse powerfull for the effect Sivtatur medio propter necessitatem 'T is true we say if he doe vse that meanes as of necessitie But the omnipotency of God needeth not therein the ministrie of Angells God by his power can of himselfe protect his seruants without the meanes of any of his Creatures he can arme the meanest of them with sufficient strenght to free them from the greatest dangers 1 But to expresse his singular loue his favour and care over them that feare him Angells must not be exempted from this imployment 2 It is a glory and honour vnto them that they should be imployed in their Creators service 3 It makes moreouer for the order and beautie of the world that things superior lesse subiect to mutation and to change should gouerne and rule the inferior world more pliable to alterations I will heare the heavens saith God Hos 2.22 and the heauens shall heare the earth Astra regunt homines regit astra Deus The starres rule men and God rules them And againe for our comfort when peradventure as Iacob travailing to Haran we are desolate and harbourlesse forsaken and left of all yet open we but then the eie of faith and wee shall see as he did the Angells of God ascending and descending as ready to goe and to returne with vs and God himselfe standing aboue the ladder Luke 12.7 Luk. 21.18 by whose guidance the course of all our life is ordered to a haire for they are numbred and not one of them can fall without his privitie and knowledge This of the Angell protecting The 2. particuler in the first generall concernes the manner how the Angells doe protect vs and that is by encamping themselues and that round about vs as my text speakes This their castrametation their encamping or pitching of their tents about vs must needs implie that there are enemies alwaies ready to assault vs and that the holy Angells are alwaies ready to defend vs and that our life is but militia a warefare vpon earth The Devill as a roaring lion goes about night and daie seeking whom he may devour 1 Pet. 5.8 And the Angell of the Lord saith my text encampeth round about them that feare him the devill cannot harme them for the Angells doe excell in strength Psa 103. Seven Devills may assault thee aswell as Mary Magdalen yet feare them not feare God and his Angell shall giue thee deliuerance from them Magna satanae potentia est sed sub Dei omnipotentia est For behold they are bound and they are bound in chaines so that they may not doe all that they can doe neither can they doe all that they would doe Iob. 26. facit quod potest Diabolus Deo permittente quod potest non facit deo prohibente But shall wee stand still and bee spectators only Gen. 1.26 Gal. 1.2 2. Cor. 5.20 1. Cor. 1.30 whilest the Angells doe thus bestirre themselues about vs He who made vs by his owne power and hath redeemed vs by his owne most precious blood and iustified vs by his owne free grace he will not saue vs without our owne good workes Deus vult hoc esse propter hoc sed non propter hoc vult hoc esse We must arme our selues put on the whole armor of God as it is described Ephes 6. and being armed wee must not flie but stand to it stand stedfast in the faith we must and we must not stand idle noe we must resist the Diuill Iames. 4.7 and then shall the Angell of the Lord assist vs and God himselfe the fight being ended crowne vs vincenti dabitur Corona This of the manner how they protect vs. The 3. thing we proposed to intreate of is who they are that are protected by the Angells Those are they that feare God as my text speakes There is a filiall and a servile feare the one is the guift of the spirit arising from the loue of God the other is of our owne corrupted nature arising from the guilt of sinne The one respecteth or looketh vpon