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They are God’s minist’ring spirits, and are sent, His messengers of mercy, to fulfil Good for salvation’s heirs. For us they still Grieve when we sin, rejoice when we repent: And on the last dread day they shall present The severed righteous at His holy hill, With them God’s face to see, to do His will, And bear with them His likeness. Was it meant, That we this knowledge should in secret seal, Unthought of, unimproving? Rather say, God deigned to man His angel hosts reveal, That man might learn, like angels, to obey; And those who long their bliss in Heaven to feel, Might strive on earth to serve him ev’n as they.
They are God’s minist’ring spirits, and are sent, His messengers of mercy, to fulfil Good for salvation’s heirs. For us they still Grieve when we sin, rejoice when we repent: And on the last dread day they shall present The severed righteous at His holy hill, With them God’s face to see, to do His will, And bear with them His likeness. Was it meant, That we this knowledge should in secret seal, Unthought of, unimproving? Rather say, God deigned to man His angel hosts reveal, That man might learn, like angels, to obey; And those who long their bliss in Heaven to feel, Might strive on earth to serve him ev’n as they.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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Page 29 · printed citation: Bp. Mant · subject: ANGELS
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