Ministers & Angells

(Lord’s day). Up, and leaving my brother John to go somewhere else, I to church, and heard Mr Mills (who is lately returned out of the country, and it seems was fetched in by many of the parishioners, with great state,) preach upon the authority of the ministers, upon these words, “We are therefore embassadors of Christ.” Wherein, among other high expressions, he said, that such a learned man used to say, that if a minister of the word and an angell should meet him together, he would salute the minister first; which methought was a little too high.

from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 9th August 1663