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The certainty of the worlds of spirits and, consequently, of the immortality of souls…
The certainty of the worlds of spirits and, consequently, of the immortality of souls of the malice and misery of the devils and the damned : and of the blessedness of the justified, fully evinced by the unquestionable histories of apparitions, operations, witchcrafts, voices &c. / written, as an addition to many other treatises for the conviction of Sadducees and infidels, by Richard Baxter.The certainty of the worlds of spirits and, consequently, of the immortality of souls of the malice and misery of the devils and the damned : and of the blessedness of the justified, fully evinced by the unquestionable histories of apparitions, operations, witchcrafts, voices &c. / written, as an addition to many other treatises for the conviction of Sadduces and infidels, by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for T. Parkhurst, 1691
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
But is it only our Bodies that they help? Can they reach or help our Souls? ⟨p. 234⟩Answ. If Devils can touch our Souls with their Temptations, are Angels farther from us, or less able to move us to our Duty?
But are they ordinarily present, or know our Case? Answ. They rejoice in our Conversion, and therefore know it: They are present in our Assemblies, as Paul intimateth, 1 Cor. 11. 10. Say not before the Angel, that it was an Error, Eccl. 5. 6. which intimateth the Angels Presence. Every Believer hath his Angel beholding the Face of our Father in Heaven, Matth. 13 10 and they are not Strangers to their Charge. We feel that the Devil is present with us by his Temptations continually, in all our Duties molesting or hindering us: And are Angels less intent upon their Work? It is Michael and his Angels, that fight against the Dragon and his Angels, to save the Church.
But are they ordinarily present, or know our Case? Answ. They rejoice in our Conversion, and therefore know it: They are present in our Assemblies, as Paul intimareth, 1 Cor. 11. 10. Say not before the Angel, that it was an Errour, Eccl. 5. 6. which intimateth the Angels Presence. Every Believer hath his Angel beholding the Face of our Father in Heaven, Matth. 13 10 and they are not Strangers to their Charge. We feel that the Devil is present with us by his Temptations continually, in all our Duties molesting or hindering us: And are Angels less intent upon their Work? It is Michael and his Angels, that fight against the Dragon and his Angels, to save the Church.