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A81481	The deputation of angels, or, The angell-guardian: I. Proved by the dim light of nature, clear beames of Scriptures, and consent of many ancient and modern writers, untainted with popery. II. Cleared from many rubs and mistakes; the criticall queries of antagonists examined, untyed. III. Applyed and improved, for our information in many other truths; consolation in our adversities; and reformation of our lives. Chiefly grounded on Acts 12. 15. It is his angell. / By Robert Dingley, M.A. and minister of the word at Brixton in the isle of Wight; formerly Fellow of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford.	Dingley, Robert, 1619-1660.	1653 (1653)	Wing D1496; Thomason E1505_2; ESTC R208670	88,111	239

feast in the Parable sent into the high wayes and hedges Luke 14. and compelled men to come in to the Feast So should Magistrates constrain men to come to the Word and give an account where they hear August in Luc. 14. Find not fault saith Austin that they be haled but see whether they be haled into the Sheep-fold of Christ 6. Arg. 6 Magistrates are bid to keep the flock of Christ from Wolves that the Garden of Gods Church may be secured Cant. 2.15 To catch the little Foxes that nibble the Vine For pessimi canis ne catulus relinquendus 7. Arg. 7 Heathens have beene sensible of the honour of their Gods The Romans enacted that no man should have a private Religion to himselfe The Athenians banished Protagoras and put Socrates to death for dishonouring and changing their Religion And Nebuchadnezzar who had newly punished those that would not worship his Goulden Abomination being at last convinced about the true God Dan. 3.16 Enacted That if any Man did speak against That God himselfe should be cut in Peeces and his house be made a Dunghill 8. The Renowned Examples of Godly and zealous Magistrates who have opposed the Inundation of Heresyes and Atheisme are very many Hezekiah and Asa demolish Idols and stampt them to Powder Constantine the Great defaced all the Temples of Hereticks and would not let them Assemble in Publick or Private Theodosius fined the Lord Deputy an hundred pound if he permitted Hereticks to meet any where day or night 9. A boundlesse toleration would be the occasion of many euills and a World of mischiefs in the Church of God as Atheisme Prophanesse Rebellion and all confusion Tolleration of divers Religions like Pandora's Box is full of deadly Poysons From thence like the Trojan horse innumerable and incurable evills have issued on the Church of God Tearing and mangling the Seamelesse Coat of Christ and treading under Foot all that is sacred You may observe that Hereticks go three steps before they come to be Devills incarnat Note 1. They make all callings common by declaring first against the Ministry and next the Magistracy 2. They proceed and make all dayes common by saying every day which in effect is no day a Sabbath 3. They go on to make all Books common by Vndervaluing the very Charter of eternall life And whilst they be taken up with unwritten Revelations all sober men are styled Litterists and Vowalists Principiis obsta crush the Cockatrices Eggs before they break out to be flying and stinging Serpents 10. And lastly Magistrates must uphold Peace and Order But there can be neither in a Generall tolleration Jerom saith Because Arrius who was but a spark of fire in Alexandria was not quenched but suffered to Run and spread in the Tinder of the multitude he kindled such a fire as devoured almost the whole Christian world Therefore Mecoenas advised Augustus to punish innovators in Religion not only in regard of Piety but for reasons of state and to settle the Foundations of Civil Government that else would be shaken But here let me adjoyn two necessary cautions Note 1. Circumstances in the true Religion may be borne withall They say Discords in Musick binding wise do increase the Harmony A Garden is rendred beautiful by Variety of flours and colours so in things circumstantiall and that do not raze the foundation some latitude must be given to Peaceable souls Jud. 22.23 ver Of some making a difference saith Jude Call not every Dissent in Doctrine or Schisme in Discipline by the ougly Name of Haeresie He is blinder then Midnight that cannot put a difference between the Foundation and Tyling or Painting of the house between the Garment and the Lace or Fring Therefore if foundationall stones be secured and all necessary truths maintained both Magistrates and Ministers must wink at all Lesser dissentings waiting untill the Lord shall reveale the rest unto them Else we shall be of a Rigid and Ungospell spirit I have heard of a certaine Tyrant Note that said eminent Prisoners on his Bed and in case they were shorter then his Bed he caused them by Engines to be stretched out to it but if longer he ordered that so much as exceeded the Bed should be cut off A Meek and humble deportment is better then an Over-rigid and humerous zeale that gives no latitude to others although in very smal things though the Gold be true they will not give one Graine of allowance 2. Caution 2 The Poor Jews must be considered That they may peaceably live among us and enjoy their Worship sacrifices excepted in their private Synagogues so they do not upon paine of death either 1. Openly blaspheame Jesus Christ Nor 2. Suffer Christians to come unto their Worship unlesse such as are Authorized by the Magistrate to see it See Weems 1. Vol. 2. Book Traps treasury cap. 7. Sect. 2 Hildersham on John Lect 38. Nor 3. So Privatly to seduce any Christian from the Faith to which may be added in the fourth place That if any Christian turn Jew he shall be put to death These Provisos cast in why may not the poor Jews that have a vayle ore the head and heart be permitted to live among us considering 1. They were formerly Gnammi My people Therefore now Ruchama A people to be pitied 2. They carefully preserved the Scriptures uncorrupted for us To them first were committed those lively Oracles and by them they were transmitted and brought safe to us 3. They have bin greivous c See Josephus de Bello Judaico lib. 6. 7. sufferers sixteen hundred yeares and have groaned under unspeakable miseries being Vagabonds over the Face of the Earth to this day 4 They wonderfully enrich the Places where they are suffered to live As Holland Portugall c. 5. They shall undoubtedly be d Rom. 11.25 26. Restored and converted in Gods due time 6. The same shall be effected not by Miracles which are ce●sed Theod. Beza's Prayer for the Jews but by ordinary means looking upon Jesus whom they peirced in the Word Lord said Beza Remember thy covenant and look upon those wretches for thy Names sake Let not us be Instruments of thy wrath against them But rather grant that by the Knowledge of thy Word and our good Conversation they may at last be brought home unto thee 7. They wisht our conversion and prayed for it Cant. 8.8 We have a little Sister that hath no breast a plaine description of the Gentiles that had no Ordinance What shall we do for our Sister in the day that she shal be spoken for 8. And lastly Their conversion will tend very much to the Glory of God and comfort of his Church To the compleating of Christ Mysticall and the unveyling of many Truths God shall then be more purely worshipt The fulness of the Gentiles shall come in and so all Israel shall be saved Thus you have seen that though Magistrates must

and Eminent Deliverance of Saint Peter laid before you And from the whole History we may observe many things As 1. Ten Observations from the whole Story Persecutors rage is not easily satisfied and the blood which they shed is but Oyle to feed the flames of their Revenge Iames being slain Peter is to follow 2. The Churches Enemies are full of policy in the midst of cruelty Peter was not presently muthered for fear of a Tumult They suck in the craft of the old Serpent they lean upon their wisdom and as little Boyes they stand upon their heads and shake their heels against Heaven 3. Close Imprisonment is a sore effect of Persecution and he that peeps through the iron Grates doth best esspy the beauty of Liberty 4. Beleevers can be secure in the midst of dangers You see Peter being in Prison slept sweetly between two Souldiers bound with Chains a good Conscience is surely a continuall Feast It turns a Prison into a Pallace 5. God hath used the Ministry of Angels to effect deliverances for his people You see an Angel delivered Peter 6. When the Lord intends to bestow a Mercy he stirs up his people to wrestle for it So Prayer was made without ceasing by the Church unto God for him 7. Mostly the people of God will have religious Servants see how Rhoda rejoyced at this deliverance 8. Zeal is oftentimes mistaken for Madness They took Rhoda to be frantick So t was said to Paul Much Learning hath made thee mad 9. The Saints will readily own and receive a persecuted Member The Disciples received Peter joyfully although it might have cost them their lives A friend is born for adversity O the miserable condition of man who cannot be truly happy without friends yet cannot certainly know he hath friends till he be miserable 10. And lastly Wicked Persecutors are mightily enraged when their crimson Purposes are disappointed Hered was so highly displeased with this unlookt-for Frustration of his bloody Designs that he caused the Keepers first to be examined in all likely-hood by Tortures and then to be put to death But to come neerer to our Text It is his Angel In these words you may observe with me 1. The Coherence 2. The words themselves First 1 The Coherence opened the Coherence of the Text with the foregoing matter and there are in it three Points observable 1. Whilst Beleevers have been fasting and praying for a Mercy the Lord many times hath sent them a quick and unexpected Return and very gratious answer Here whilst they were praying for Peters deliverance the Return of their prayers stood knocking at the door for entrance Poor Rhoda was accused of madness and they concluded t was an Angel not Peter so quick and unexpected was the answer of their prayers 2. Sometimes the deliverances of Gods people out of imminent and emminent dangers are so wonderfull and attended with such a croud of Improbabilities that they have much ado to beleive though they see and heare them 3. Angels have assumed the shape of men you see they all thought it was an Angel that had put on the Shape Habit Knock and Voice of Peter Of these briefly First 1 Point from the Coherence Dr. Goodwins return of prayers Whilst the Saints have been at prayer the Lord hath many times sent them a quick and unexpected return Thus to assure Hezekiah that his praier was heard God sent the Prophet unto him whilst he was praying and weeping So Isaac going out to meditate and pray in the fields meets his Rebeka then a coming That request for a good Wife being surely the chief earthly thing he was then in treaty with God for As the Ruler in the Gospel found Iohn 4. See Dan. 9.20 21. that in the same hour wherin he desired help for his Son of Christ he began to mend So hath it been often with the people of God He hath answered their prayers in the very hour that they put them up Luther having prayed earnestly to God in his Chamber for the Churches success came down saying We have overcom we have overcom And so accordingly it prov'd But lastly Acts. 12.5.12 Hugo Card. Tom. 4. how plain an instance is this in our Context Whilst the Disciples were praying to God for him Peter knocks at the Gate So true is that sweet and precious Promise Isa 65.24 And it shall come to pass that before they call I will answer and whilst they are yet speaking I will hear By which Hugo layes that parallell Scripture He will be very gracious unto the at the Voice of thy cry Isa 30.19 Qui timide Rogat docet Negare But the fervent supplications of the Saints do peirce the Heavens and have a glorious Eccho from the Clouds Whilst Moses held up his hands Israel prevailed Now this the Lord doth Reas 1 to put the greater honour upon his Ordinance to convince us that he heares and observes our prayers and bottles up all our Tears and that he is not deaf to our desires If Christ stopped not his eares when he was blasphemed will he stop them when he is intreated If he turned not away his face from those that spat on him can we think he will turn it away from those that pray unto him Again Reas 2 the Lord doth this the more to endear himself to us and engage us in his Service And that the Mercy which is won by prayer may be worn by thankfulness How doth this reprove the sluggish and incredulous prayers or bablings of the most Vse 1 How can they expect God should hear them saith Cyprian Cyprian Ser. Sext. de oratione Dominica when they scarce hear themselves Quae autem segnitia est alienari capi ineptis cogitationibus prophanis dum Dominum deprecaris quasi sit aliud quod magis debeas cogitare quàm quod cum Deo loquaris Quomodo te audiri a Deo postulas cum te ipse non Audias Vis esse Deum memorem tui cum rogas cum tu ipse memor tui non sis Hoc est quando oras Dominum majestatem Dei negligentiâ orationis offendere Hoc est vigilare oculis corde dormire cum debeat Christianus cum dormit oculis Corde vigilare saith divine Cyprian In prayer therfore Sursum Corda rise up and take hold upon God To let fall a Prayer is one thing to poure out the Soul is another thing So then Vse 2 let us carefully hear our selves in prayer and God hears us let us listen and well heed and mind the Answers and Ecchos of our prayers and the inward sealings and whispers of the Spirit after that we have wrestled with the Lord in prayer 1 Sam. 1.16 going to him in the name of Christ Hannah after she had prayed and Eli had seconded her request found such an inward answer to her desires that her spirit was cheered and she looked no more sad So the Psalmist I will

of Angels as their Languages Names Songs Battels their converse w th one another visions of God their Motions Number and Ranks What means the receiving of the Law by the Deposition of Angels Or the Angels striving with the Divell about Moses his body Their desire to pry into our Redemption by Christ and the making known by the Church somwhat unto them In a word the Voice of the Angel at the last day All this is hinted unto us in * 1 Cor. 13.1 Col. 1.16 Job 38 7. Matth. 18.10 Isa 6.2 3. Heb 12.22 Act. 7.53 Judges 9. 1 Pet. 1.12 Eph. 3.10 1 Thes 4.15 the Scripture Here are great Deeps wherin the hugest Elephants may swim and Leviathans tumble And in the exposition wherof the most Learned are like lisping Children God will peece-meal and in his due time discover all to us very much here and the rest in Heaven Then all Mists as well as Tears shall be wip'd from our eyes Now we see darkly we know but in part Melius est dubitare de occultis quam litigare de incertis Pliny the younger was swallowed up of a smoaking burning Gulph approaching too neer to find out the cause of the Eruption Let us hear what Learned Hiensius saith on the Mysterious Book of the Revelation Dan. Hiensius in Sacr. Exercitat ad Nov. Test lib. 20 cap. 4. p. 597. Non quaedam Ignorare tantum sed Ignorare quaedam velle Humilitatis Christianae Partem non exiguam existimamus Ne parum reverenter abdita Scrutemur This should cool in us the uncomly Itch of Curiosity in Divine things But on the other side we must be desirous to know what God hath revealed in his word and in order therunto to beleive that we know nothing to be sensible of our darkness and blindness in Spirituall things 1 Cor. 8.2 The Lord knows we have weak Eyes stammering Tongues and trembling Quills if we go about to speak or write of the deep and sublime things of God And such without all peradventure is the Doctrine of Angels 2. 2 Concession Whilst we plead for those glorious Creatures those loving and lovely Spirits and their care which is extended towards us from our Souls we do abhor and detest as most impious the Adoration of Angels with a desire it may be as heartily as themselves also do it For as nothing pleaseth them more then our conversion and gracious conversation Rev. 19.10 22.9 so nothing is more abominable to them then to be adored Origen spake to fvourably of it but the Lord hath most expresly forbidden it Psal 50.15 Col. 2.18 Col. 2.18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshiping of Angels Divine Adoration is neither due nor pleasing unto them nor honourable to God nor any way profitable to our selves Mendoza in Reg. Vol. 2. p. 25. Tertullian in Mendoza observes that some men namely Magistrates are called Gods But so are not Angels who yet are more excellent and all to hinder our Adoration of them Matth. 4.10 Heb. 1.13 Take heed therfore Christians that yee do not so cry up Angels as to derogate from Christ in the least 3. 3 Concession When I say one Angel chiefly and constantly attends the elect Person in an ordinary course It cannot be denyed but in an extraordinary way * Psal 34.7 Exod. 14.19 One Angel may attend many Saints as the Noble Generall and Valliant Captain of the Huge Troop of their particular Angels as we shall shew hereafter And also that many Angels may attend * Psal 91.11 Luke 16.23 2 Reg. 16.17 One in some Eminent and Arduous Imployment for our greater consolation But from hence to conclude that a Beleever hath not one constant or usuall Guide carrieth with it such a kind of Argumentation Note One Generall belongs to many Regiments and Companies therfore no Souldier hath a Captain in particular or on the other side thus One Generall hath an whole Army round about him to defend him therfore he hath not an Alter Fgo or Animae Dimidium that above all the rest doth watch over him will stick to him and dye with or for him if need require Have not young Studients besides their generall Officers as Chancellor Vice-chancellor Proctors President Vice-president Bucan Loc. Com. de Ang. Loc. 6. pag. 70. Deanes particular Tutors to read to them and watch over them And thus it is in the Doctrine of Angels Many Angels look to the Church and belong to each particular Beleever And yet saith Bucan Cal. Instit lib. 1. cap 14. one Angel may be his ordinary Tutor and more especiall Guardian So that Calvins Pro certo Habendum is still very true This saith he is to be held for a certainty That not only one Angel hath care for every one of us but that all of them with a common consent do watch over our Salvation and Good I have given you the Preparatory Concessions and am come at last to demonstrate our Thesis and to prove that every elect Child of God hath one particular Angel to tutor and defend him We shal prove this Point by the Dim Light of Nature clear Beams of Scripture and the consent of many Ancient and Modern Writers untainted with Popish Leven First this may be proved by the Dim Light of Nature where I must shew you 1. 1 The Point proved by the dim Light of Nature 1 That the Light of Nature is Well to be heeded That the light of Nature is well to be heeded though not rested in 2. What the light of Nature hath taught us in this Point For the former it will appear by these Mediums 1. It is a Relict or Remnant of the Image of God Although this Light be not able to prepare us for Grace or bring us unto Christ And although compared with Faith it is but as a Gloworm to the Sun Yet though the Taper be small and burn very dim * See Melanchton de Lege Peccato Antony Eurges vindiciae Legis 7. Lect. p. 67. Rom. 1.20 Act. 17.27 Psal 19.1 Act. 14.17 some Light and Irradiation flows from it enough to leave men without excuse and wherby we may guess at our Primitive knowledge in Paradice Even as the bigness of Hercules body was gathered by his Foot of a Lion by the Claw a Stocke of Divine knowledg p. 11. And the ruines of some stately Pallace do serve to declare its former Magnificence Much is read of God by the Light of Nature and in the volume of the Creatures 2. The Light of Nature is necessary though not sufficient in civill and morall things b Burges ut ante 72.73 For reason makes men in a Passive capacity of Grace of which a Stone or Beast is not receptive or capable 3. Many Points in Divinity do not cross the Truth of Nature as Grotius and c Grotius de ve●●t Relig. Christianae

then one at once Aquinas Sic sunt in uno Loco ut non sint in Alio say the Schoolmen They are undoubtedly so in one place as not to be in another * Angeli sunt in loco non circumsrciptive quia non commensurantur loco sed definitive c. Non sunt ubique Bucan loc com de Ang. loc 6. sect 17. That the Angels are in a place is certain out of Scripture They are said sometimes to be in Heaven and sometimes to be on Earth Gabriel was sent into a City of Galilee Luke 1.26 Therefore when Gabriel was in Nazareth he could not be said to be in Ierusalem or any other City Angels are not in a place as bodies by circumscription or contiguity For a Legion was in one man yet they are so here that they are not there The same Angels cannot be in many places at once their motion indeed is very speedy and quick and therefore they are pictured with wings but their motion cannot be in an instant And doth not this make against the ordinary attendance of many Troops of Angels much more of all the Angels upon one single Person seeing all Believers are promised the presence of Angels And if so many or all be present with one what shall become of the rest shall one have many Troops and another farre distant have none Gods elect are not all in a cluster but scattered and dispersed o're the world One in a Family two in a Tribe in all Nations God hath some that feare and serve him 2. Let us consider not only the distance but the great number of Believers In the dayes of Iezabel when the Church was under sore persecution there were seven thousand left that had not bowed the knee to Baal 1 Reg. 19.18 How great then is the number of Believers since the Gospel when the silken Drag-net is sayd to draw in five thousand at a draught Act● 4.4 And the number of those that shall rejoyce at Antichrists ruine is said to be an hundred forty and four thousand Apoc. 14.3 11.15 In a word it is said that all Nations shall become the Kingdomes of our Lord and his Christ From all which wee gather that though few be saved in respect of that vast throng and innumerable spawn of the wicked that crowd into Hell yet the quantity of Believers is in it self very considerable and glorious Heb. 11.12 13. Such as dye in the faith are as the stars of the skie in multitude and as the sand which is by the Sea-shoar innumerable Such a Progeny had Abraham Heb. 11. Well the number of Believers on earth being so considerable as to passe all the known rules of Arithmatick to tell them From hence let us gather whether it bear a face of probability that each one of so great a company have many troops of Angels still to attend him 3. Add to this the number of Reprobate and falne Angels that kept not their station whereby the society of Angels is much maimed lessned You read that in one man there was a legion of Devils Luk. 8 30. Vegetius de Re Milit lib. 2. cap. 6. Isidore saith a legion among the Romans was six thousand armed Souldiers but Vegetius saith 6100. Footmen and 726 Hors-men but here a certain number I suppose is put for an uncertain A legion of Devils in him that is very many Our Saviour compares them to the Fowls of the Ayre in the parable of the Sower Luke 8.5 To shew us there be not so many birds flying in the Aire although sometimes the Ayr will be black with them as wicked spirits in the world Satan is the Prince of the Ayre and Beelzebub the chief of Devils to shew us the greatnesse of his Train and multitude of his Subjects Beelzebub signifies the Lord of Flies there be not so many Flies in the world as there be Devils If then the number of faln Angels be so great it must needs follow that the society of Angels is very much broken and maimed and therefore it is not probable that whole troops are allotted to each particular Believer 4. One is often mentioned in Scripture to attend one man There are threescore Places where mention is made of one Angel having to doe with one Believer too many here to be inserted sometimes named as Michael and Gabriel Dan. 10.13 Luke 1.19 On the other side it is a rare thing and in very extraordinary cases that many Angels are recorded to be about one man or one woman shall not these things be carefully heeded When the Lord saith One Angel shall we say many Angels Let us acquiesce in his word and take heed of adding to or diminishing from it 5. One Angel sufficeth for ordinary Attendance The body is actedby One soule which gives it a Naturall life The soule of a Believer by one spirit which gives it a Divine life And one Angel will suffice to guard and defend one man 2 King 19 What havock did one Angel make in defence of Hezekiah 'T was one Angel that shut the Lions mouths insomuch that they touched not Daniel Dan. 6.22 3. ●5 One Angel hindred the violence of the flames that they could not hurt the three Children And one Angel smote off the Chains of Peter and made the prison doors and iron gates to open unto him One Angel saith a Writer * Master Leighs body of Divinity in 4 to lib. 3. cap. 7. p. 90. is able to destroy all the Men Beasts Birds and Fishes and all the Creatures that be in the world by overturning the whole course of Nature if God should permit it One Angel is able to drown the Earth again and cause the waters to over-flow it To pull the Sun Moon and Stars out of their places and make all a Chaos Angels can move and stir the earth Mat. 28.2 Nay one Angel did it Mat 28.2 And behold there was a great Earth-quake For the Angell of the Lord descended from heaven Lastly the very voyce of an Arch-Angel is so loud and terribie that at last it shall awaken all that are dead 1 Thes 4.16 Psal 103.20 1 Thes 4.16 Thus you see an Angel is of incredible power The Angells saith the Psalmist do excell in strength I might say as much of their admirable wisdome Agility and Fidelity But I refer you to those that write of the Nature of Angels See Aquinas Zanchy and Saikeld and to the subtle and large Tracts of the Schoolmen thereupon By this time you see that one Angel sufficeth for our daily and ordinary attendance seeing one Angel hath done and can do such great and wonderfull things 6. Yet further to shew Principio serviunt ipsi Deo eundem concelebrant laudibus sempiternis Adorantes Glorificantes exultantes in Ipso Bullingeri decad 4. Ser. 9. fol. 251. that multitudes of Angels do not in an ordinary course attend one