A26888:478
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.
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, Heb. 12. and must honour ⟨p. 235⟩them that fear the Lord, Psal. 15. And we know that we are translated from Death to Life, becau•e we love the Brethren: And is it so damnable Idolatry to love and honour Angels and Saints a little too much while they give them nothing proper to God? I blame their Irregularities, but I dare not judge so hardly of them, and the ancient Church, for this, as some do; nor think them much better, that love and honour Angels and Saints as much too little.
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 Catholick 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 Ierusalem, to the Innumerable Angels, Heb. 12. and must honour ⟨p. 235⟩them that fear the Lord, Psal. 15. And we know that we are translated from Death to Life, becau•e we love the Brethren: And is it so damnable Idolatry to love and honour Angels and Saints a little too much while they give them nothing proper to God? I blame their Irregularities, but I dare not judge so hardly of them, and the ancient Church, for this, as some do; nor think them much better, that love and honour Angels and Saints as much too little.