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| Of the Ministry of the Holy Angels, by Which They Fulfill the Providence of God.
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Chapter 15.—Of the Ministry of
the Holy Angels, by Which They Fulfill the Providence of
God.
And so it has pleased Divine
Providence, as I have said, and as we read in the Acts of the
Apostles,409
that the law
enjoining the worship of one God should be given by the disposition
of angels. But among them the person of God Himself visibly
appeared, not, indeed, in His proper substance, which ever remains
invisible to mortal eyes, but by the infallible signs furnished by
creation in obedience to its Creator. He made use, too, of the
words of human speech, uttering them syllable by syllable
successively, though in His own nature He speaks not in a bodily
but in a spiritual way; not to sense, but to the mind; not in words
that occupy time, but, if I may so say, eternally, neither
beginning to speak nor coming to an end. And what He says is
accurately heard, not by the bodily but by the mental ear of His
ministers and messengers, who are immortally blessed in the
enjoyment of His unchangeable truth; and the directions which they
in some ineffable way receive, they execute without delay or
difficulty in the sensible and visible world. And this law was
given in conformity with the age of the world, and contained at the
first earthly promises, as I have said, which, however, symbolized
eternal ones; and these eternal blessings few understood, though
many took a part in the celebration of their visible signs.
Nevertheless, with one consent both the words and the visible rites
of that law enjoin the worship of one God,—not one of a crowd of
gods, but Him who made heaven and earth, and every soul and every
spirit which is other than Himself. He created; all else was
created; and, both for being and well-being, all things need Him
who created them.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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