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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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3. When they that walk in the fear of God, fall into great Afflictions and Miseries, Holy Angels are with them, notwithstanding those Temptations. Angels are with the• to support & comfort them, in all ⟨p. 58⟩their Temptations. Our blessed Lord was tempted and Victorious over all his temptation: It is recorded that then Angels came, and ministered unto […] ▪ Math. 4.11. So it is as to Believers in their Spiritual conflicts, though the ministration of Angels is invisible & unperceivable by them that are concerned therein. When they are in Agonies of Soul, Holy Angels desert them not. We read concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, that when he was i• his Agony, there appeared Angels unto him from Heaven, strengthening him, Luk. 22.43. Then (as on• observes) the Master was comforted by the Servant: an Angel from Heaven came, & strengthened the blessed Lord Jesus in his Agonies. But th•• are Believers oftentimes comforted in their dejections by the secret Ministry of Holy Angel• We see it in the Prophet Isaiah: He was dejected and disconsolate in his Spirit, at the consideration of his exceeding sinfulness. We hear him crying, Woe is me, I am undone! I am a man of unclean lips: Alas, (says he) though I have been called to the Work and Office of a Prophet, I have not used my tongue for God so much as I should have done▪ now a Seraphim did comfort him in his dejection; an Angel came and said unto him, Thy sin is purged, thine iniquity is taken away, Isa: 6.7. Daniel was disconsolate, in thinking of the Afflicted state of th• People of God; his Spirit was much exercised & dejected in him, but an Angel came unto him when in these dejections & temptations, and tell him, that he was, a man greatly bel•ved,