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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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3. The Angels are ready to do any Service for them that Fear God; ready to do it, as soon as ever God shall but speak the word to them: They hearken to the Word of God, Psal. 103.20. Hearken to it; they stand and hearken, when once the word will go out of the mouth of God, and then they go without any delay. Indeed, Heaven is their proper Habitation; nevertheless (as before was intimated) they can fly from Earth to Heaven, and from Heaven to Earth, in a very little time: They are therefore represented in the Scripture, as Flying, and that swiftly. Dan. 9.21. The Angel Gabriel (who appeared to the Prophet in an humane shape) Was caused to fly swiftly. In a little time, ⟨p. 74⟩they can go from one end of the World, to the other, even like Lightning. Psal. 104.4. He makes His Angels Spirits, and His Ministers a flaming fire. Angels that are the Ministering Spirits, round about those that fear God, they fly like lightning, like a flame of fire. You see Lightning go from the West to the East, in the twinkling of an eye: So do the Angels of Heaven, in a moment of time, go from one end of the World to the other: and when God sends them on any Errand, they don't turn back, nor stop by the way, until such time as they have done that which the Lord hath appointed them unto. Ezek. 1.12. The Living Creatures, they went, and turned not, when they went, but went on, till they had dispatched th• Work the Lord had commanded them to perform. These things considered, they that fear the Lord, may have great comfort, notwithstanding the evils and dangers, which in this woeful World, they are liable unto. It was an expression full of Faith, uttered by a late faithful and laborious Minister of Christ, when some wondered to see him so cheerful under great Afflictions, I (said he) Have God for my Father, Christ for my Redeemer, the Holy Spirit for my Sanctifier, Heaven for my Inheritance, Holy Angels for my Guardians, & shall not I then rejoice?
3. The Angels are ready to do any Service for them that Fear God; ready to do it, as soon as ever God shall but speak the word to them: They hearken to the Word of God,