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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. Evil Angels have a fearful power over them that fear not God. They are said to be under Satan's Power. Paul was sent to the Gentiles, that he might turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, Acts 26.18. They then that are no• turned from darkness, turned from sin, but remain still in their unconverted State, are not turned from the power of Satan: the Devil doth claim a right in ungodly men, as those that are his own; he claims them as his house that he hath power to be in. Thus the unclean spirit, in Mat. 12.43. saith, I will return to my •ouse. A wicked man is the Devils House, where he dwells, and where he rules. Sinners are the cursed children of the Devils Family, and are therefore called, The Seed of the Serpent, Gen. 3.15. The Devil, he is the Serpent, wicked men are the seed, the children of that accursed Serpent. And the Apostle saith, He that committeth Sin, is of the Devil▪ for the Devil ⟨p. 85⟩sinneth from the beginning. 1 Joh. 3.8. As Children are o• their Father, so are they that commit sin, of the Devil; his image they bear, and him they imitate, as Children their Father. And they are his Slaves, woeful Slaves in the Kingdom […], Taken Captive by the Devil at his will, 2 Tim. 2.26. They are his Captives and Slaves: he doth even what he will with them: If the Devil put them upon doing this or that wickedness, they will do it. I• he tempt them to Curse and Swear, they will do it: And if the Devil tempts them to Uncleanness, or to Lying, and such like abominable things, they will do as he would have them.
3. Evil Angels have a fearful power over them that fear not God. They are said to be under Satans Power. Paul was sent to the Gentiles, that he might turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God,