Persons in your place are messengers of the Most High God.

Is it too much to say, they should live like the angels in all holiness, and be filled with love and zeal for men's souls?
They are ambassadors in Christ's stead to persuade sinners to be reconciled to God.

So that your calling is above that of angels: for they are _afterward_ to minister to the heirs of salvation; but the sinner must be _first_ reconciled to God.

And you are called on from day to day to intercede with man as his friend, that you may win souls to Christ.

Christ is ascended up on high, to intercede with his Father for guilty sinners, and to plead for them the merits of his death.