And in the substance of it the law was one and the same in common to us men, and the angels, in and by their creation. Now, that estate of the angels the apostle Jude calls their first, or rather original estate, which they were endowed with from their very beginning, and was by original justice their due, or their natural estate; that is, which they had from, by, or with their creation, and by the law thereof; which estate being alike common to the good angels as well as the bad, before they left
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