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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. › For the USE of it.
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1. They are of all Creatures the most powerful: they are wonderful in strength, Psal. 103.20. Ye his Angels, that do excel in strength. They are not only ⟨p. 71⟩strong, but they excel in strength. Therefore are they styled, Mighty Angels, 2 Thes. 1.7. They are stronger than men, greater in power and in might, as the Apostle speaks concerning them, 2 Pet. 2.11. One Angel is able to destroy all the men in the World. You have been told, that one Angel hath that might, that power, that i• God should give him a Commission, he is able to destroy the whole World before him. It is Luther's assertion, Unus Angelus est pot entior, quam totus mundus. Put the whole World together, and they have not the strength of one Angel. We see what powerful Creatures they are, by the things that have been done by them: Gates of Iron can't stand before them. When an Angel came to deliver Peter, the Iron-gate opened of its own accord. Act. 12.10. Nay, an Angel is able to make the very earth to shake, as has formerly been noted from Math. 28.2. Where we read, that there was a great Earth quake, for the Angel of the Lord descended from Heaven. All the men in the World can't make the earth to quake; but an Angel from Heaven is able to do it: such mighty Creatures are they. And we see what they can do, by what the Angel did in Sennacherib's Army, and by their destroying Sodom and Gomorrah, by thunder and lightning, and a terrible earth-quake. Those Cities were swallowed up in a moment, and they were Angels of God th•• did cause it to be so. Well then, be not afraid, as long as you have such mighty powerful Spirits as these are, near unto you, to defend and safe guard you against all your enemies.
1. They are of all Creatures the most powerful: they are wonderful in strength,