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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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4. As for such as shall continue in their Unregenerate State, that shall live so, and dye so, the Angels are their Enemies. The Angels of the Lord, that Encamp round about them that fear him, and deliver them, are Enemies to them that fear him not. When Balaam persisted in his wicked way, the Angel that met him, if he had not humbled himself, would have been his death. There have been thousands of men in the world, concerning whom it is certain, (though they were not sensible of it, until after their Souls were out of their Bodies) the Angels have been their death: The Angels of Heaven have secretly smitten them, and they have dyed. As for such, Davids Prayer is made good against them, Psal. 34 4, 5. Let the Angel of the Lord chase them: let their way be dark and slippery▪ and let the Angel of the Lord ⟨p. 86⟩persecute them. That Prayer will be remembered against the Enemies of God and his People, to the end of the World: And when Death comes, the Angels forsake them, and leave them in the hands of Devils. How should the Soul of a wicked man ever get to Heaven? he must pass through an Army of Devils, thousands of millio•• of them that lie in the way. And the good Angels forsake him; they will not, nor may they take any care of his Soul: and therefore he can never get to Heaven; and at the Day of Judgment, the Angels will be the Ministers of Justice, by whom the Wrath of God shall be Executed on sinful Creatures. In the time of the Harvest the Reapers gather the Tares into Bundles to bu•n them. Math. 13.30. The Harvest is the end of the World, the Reapers are the Angels, the Tares are wicked men. The Angels of the Lord will at that day bundle up wicked men, to cas• them into the Fire that never shall be quenched. This is the portion of those that fear no• God. But thus by way of Instruction or Inf••mati•n.