Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvatioN? --Heb. 1:14

How oft do they their silver bowers leave,
To come to succor us that succor want!
How oft do they with golden pinions cleave
The flitting skyes, like flying pursuivant,
Against fowle feendes to ayd us militant!
They for us fight, they watch, and dewly ward,
And their bright squadrons round about us plant,
And all for love, and nothng for reward;
O why should heavenly God to men have such regard!

--Edmund Spenser