presence of God.” 4. From their long observation and experience. A capacity to increase in knowledge enters into the very nature of rational creatures, and this is surely as true of angels as it is of men. For multiplied ages they have been gazing upon the unfolding attributes of God, and winging their unwearied flight to various and distant parts of heaven’s dominions, to execute the Divine will, and to witness the wonders of the Divine administration. To what lofty heights, then, must they be elevated