A26888:477
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 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.
While such Texts make the Papists think that Angels are always, or ordinarily present, if they give them not Divine Worship but such as we would do a Prince, though I have said before why I approve not of their Doings, I dare not, as some late Expositors of the Revelation, judge the Catholic Church to have become AntiChristian Idolaters, as soon as they gave too much Worship to Angels, and to Saints. We are come to the New Jerusalem, to the Innumerable Angels,