John Maynard on Christ’s power over the angels

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These objects which Christ hath to work upon, are either rational creatures, or such as are void of the principles of reason. The former are Angels or men. The Angels which are holy He preserveth in that state of subjection to Himself wherein they continued when the rest left their habitation, upholding them not only in their beings, but in the integrity and perfection of their beings, whose perfection is their voluntary subordination to the Son of God, Christ Jesus, who is the Head of all principality and power: and so they are ministering Spirits unto Him, employed as a Convoy to his people in the wilderness of the world, until they arrive at that eternal rest which he hath purchased for them.

As for the apostate angels, by an act of justice and power, He cast them down into everlasting chains under darkness, where he holdeth them prisoners until the great Assize, the judgment of the last day. And though for the present He is not pleased to keep them close prisoners, but seemeth to give them the liberty of the prison, and sometime to lengthen their chains, suffering them to range abroad for the executing of his judgements in divers kinds upon the wicked, and for the exercise and trial of the godly (out of all which He getteth glory to His great Name) yet still He keepeth them chained; that is, under the restraint of His Almighty Arm, not permitting them to stir an inch beyond the bounds which He hath set them: as themselves intimated when they begged leave of Him to enter into the herd of swine, and when Satan petitioned the Lord for a Commission to plunder holy Job, and then to have it enlarged for afflicting of his person; when the Lord gave him greatest liberty, it was with limitation: But save his life. ...

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