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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Again, the Angels do very great Service for God, & many kind Offices for us, therefore they are to be both loved and honoured by them that fear him.
Inference 5. It is a very Angelical, and therefore an honourable thing to be Serviceable. This is to be as the Angels of Heaven are. When God doth employ any man in doing Service for his Name, he doth put very great honour upon that man. ⟨p. 80⟩1 Sam. 2 30. They that honour me, I will honour. And how doth God honour them? by using them in his Service, that is the Honour there especially intended. God will employ them in his Service, & in that respect honour them, just as he honours th• Angels of Heaven. The glory of the Saints at the Resurrection, is expressed by that of their being made like unto the Angels, Luk. 20.36. They shall then be Angels fellows. And so are they that are employed in Services for the great God, they are like unto the Angels, they are made Fellow-Servants with the Angels of Heaven, for, they are all of them the Servants of the great God, and are on that account styled his Ministers, Psal. 103.21. Ye Angels, ye Ministers of his that do his pleasure. And let me say to you, There are thousands of Millions of those Ministers in the Court of the great King of Heaven, Dan. 7.10. There are ten thousand times ten thousand that stand before him, and that Minister unto him. It is then a glorious thing to be employed in Service for God. It is accounted a great honour and happiness, to be a Servant to an earthly Prince, as the Queen of Sheba said to Solomon, 1 King. 10.8. Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy Servants, which continually stand before thee. But then what is it to stand before God & the Lord Jesus Christ, as a Servant of his? It is a glorious thing. When God would put honour upon Moses after his death, he calls him his Servant.