As there are great saints and small ones in the church on earth, so
there are angels of divers degrees in heaven; some greater than
some; but the smallest saint, when he gets to heaven, shall have an
angel's dignity, an angel's place.
What goodly mansions He for them provides,
Though here they meet rough winds and swelling tides;
How brave a calm they will enjoy at last,
Who to the Lord and to his ways hold fast.
EMPLOYMENTS OF HEAVEN.
This love of Christ, if I may so say, will keep the saints in an
employ, even when they are in heaven; though not an employ, that is
laborsome, tiresome, burdensome, yet an employ that is dutiful,
delightful, and profitable; for although the work and worship of
saints in heaven is not particularly revealed as yet, and so it doth
not yet appear what we shall be, yet in the general we may say,
there will be that for them to do that has not yet by them been
done; and by that work which they shall do there, their delight will
be unto them. Nor will this at all derogate from their glory. The
angels now wait upon God, and serve him; the Son of God is now a
minister, and waiteth upon his service in heaven. Some saints have
been employed about service for God after they have been in heaven;
and why we should be idle spectators when we come thither, I see not
reason to believe.
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