Surely it is not presuming too much of a Clergyman of the Church of England to expect that he would measure the importance of a theological tenet by its bearings on our moral and spiritual duties, by its practical tendencies.

What is it to us whether Angels are the spirits of just men made perfect, or a distinct class of moral and rational creatures?
Augustine has well and wisely observed that reason recognizes only three essential kinds;--God, man, beast.

Try as long as you will, you can never make an Angel anything but a man with wings on his shoulders.
Ib.ch.III.p.

58.
But this deficiency in the Mosaic account of the creation is amply supplied by early tradition, which inculcates not only that the angels were created, but that they were created, either on the second day, according to R.Jochanan, or on the fifth, according to R.Chanania.
Inspired Scripture amply supplied by the Talmudic and Rabbinical traditions!--This from a Clergyman of the Church of England! I am, I confess, greatly disappointed.

I had expected, I scarce know why, to have had some light thrown on the existence of the Cabala in its present form, from Ezekiel to Paul and John.