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Angelographia, or A discourse concerning the nature and power of the holy angels, and…
Angelographia, or A discourse concerning the nature and power of the holy angels, and the great benefit which the true fearers of God receive by their ministry: delivered in several sermons: : to which is added, a sermon concerning the sin and misery of the fallen angels: also, a disquisition concerning angelical-apparitions. / By Increase Mather, president of Harvard College, in Cambridge, and preacher of the Gospel at Boston, in New-England. ; [Two lines from Hebrews]Angelographia, or A discourse concerning the nature and power of the holy angels, and the great benefit which the true fearers of God receive by their ministry: delivered in several sermons: : to which is added, a sermon concerning the sin and misery of the fallen angels: also, a disquisition concerning angelical-apparitions. / By Increase Mather, praesident of Harvard Colledge, in Cambridge, and preacher of the Gospel at Boston, in New-England. ; [Two lines from Hebrews]
printed by B. Green & J. Allen for Samuel Phillips, 1696
A DISCOURSE Concerning the Power and Ministry of Holy Angels. › Doctrine 2 › Objections
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So it is true concerning the man, that feareth the Lord, the Holy Angels do never utterly depart from him, yet for some time, and in a great measure, they may; that he shall not be so favoured with Angel Protection, as sometimes he was, when he Walked ⟨p. 57⟩more closely with God. As the Holy and Eternal Spirit doth never wholly depart from true Believers, Joh. 14.16. He doth abide with them for ever: this notwithstanding, he may in a great measure withdraw from them: David was sensible of this, and that made him pray, as in Psal. 51.11. Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not thy holy Spirit from me. God sometimes takes away h•s Holy Spirit from his own dear Children, as to the quickening and comforting presence thereof: therefore they had need be careful, that they grieve not the Holy Spirit, and that they quench not the Spirit. True Believers may grieve the Spirit of God, and grieve him away from them, so as that the Comforter, that should relieve their Souls, shall be far from them. When any of Gods Children do behave themselves, so as to grieve his Spirit, the Angels are also grieved: and if the Spirit of God goes from them, the Angels of God go from them too; for they are perfectly directed and acted by the Eternal Spirit, Ezek. 1.20. It is said, that whithersoever the Spirit was to go, thither the Living Creatures went. If Gods Children shall give way to sin; if they shall become guilty of any Scandalous iniquity, the Spirit of God withdraws from them, and the Holy Angels go away with him.
So it is true concerning the man, that feareth the Lord, the Holy Angels do never utterly depart from him, yet for some time, and in a great measure, they may; that he shall not be so favoured with Angel Protection, as sometimes he was, when he Walked ⟨p. 57⟩more closely with God. As the Holy and Eternal Spirit doth never wholly depart from true Believers,