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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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4. God in due time will send his Angels to deliver his Servants out of all their Troubles. Sometimes Angels are sent to pluck them out of the very mouth of destruction. As it was with Lot & his Family: Angels did lay their hands upon him, and on his Children, and delivered them from the burnings, Gen. 19.16. Such things still happen, though in a more unperceivable way. I could relate ⟨p. 60⟩examples to you, of some who have by […] strange Instinct, removed from the places whe• they were: they have no sooner gone out […] doors, but the house hath fallen down: had they stayed there but a minute or two longer, they had perished in the Ruins. Doubtless there is a Secret Influence of the Angels of Heaven, in such things as these are. Sometimes, when the Lord• Servants are in the Jaws of death; he sends his Angels to deliver them. So it was with Daniel▪ My God (saith he) hath sent his Angel, and ha•• shut the Lions mouths that they have not hurt me. Dan. 6.22. That he saw an Angel, it is not said; but, he saw the Lions did not hurt him, and therefore might conclude, that God sent his Angel to shu• the mouths of those Lions. Sometimes whe• they were deprived of liberty, Angels have be•• the Instruments of restoring it to them again. Th• Apostles were cast into the common Prison, and an Angel came in the night, and set open the Prison-doors, Act. 5.19. So it was with Peter; he was cast into Prison, and the next day was to have been made a Sacrifice: but God sent his Angel to deliver him, Act. 12.11. Sometimes me• that have been deprived of Health, have had i• restored to them, by the Ministry of Holy Angels. An Angel did trouble the Waters in th Pool of Bethesda, and who-ever first stepped in after the Angel had troubled the Waters, was mad whole, what-ever disease he had,