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The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard BaxterThe Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter
The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Daniel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.The Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Danel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1692
Protestant Religion Truly Stated, and Justified, &c. › The Six and Twentieth accused Point.
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.
Ans. 1. We hold that every true Christian, even the least, hath his Angel who beholdeth the Face of his Father in Heaven: And that Angels are Gods Ministering Spirits, for the good of his Elect; and that they guard us and pitch their Tents about us, and bear us up in their Hands, and keep us in and from Danger, and rejoice at the Conversion of a Sinner, and that we live in invisible Communion with them, and shall be like them.
Ans. 1. We hold that every true Christian, even the least, hath his Angel who beholdeth the Face of his Father in Heaven: And that Angels are Gods Ministring Spirits, for the good of his Elect; and that they guard us and pitch their Tents about us, and bear us up in their Hands, and keep us in and from Danger, and rejoyce at the Conversion of a Sinner, and that we live in invisible Communion with them, and shall be like them.
2. But whether every Christian have one Angel to himself alone, that guardeth no other, or one Angel guard Hundreds or Thousands: Or whether some (as Lower Officers are set over a few, and others as General Officers are over whole Kingdoms,) we leave to the determination of the Infallible Pope, who is bolder with Gods Secrets than we dare be.
3. But till now, I thought they had not been so presumptuous, as to assert that every man hath a Guardian Angel. Where is there one word of God for this? Is every man an Heir of Salvation, or one of ⟨p. 108⟩Christs little ones, or under his promise? Had Cain and Judas such Angels, and all the Sodomites?