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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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From Childhood to Old Age it is so: As the Lord speaks in Isai. 46.3, 4. From the Womb unto Old Age, I will bear, and I will carry and deliver them. How doth the Lord bear his Chosen Ones from the Womb, & unto their Old Age? Truly, He doth it by the Hands of Angels; He gives Holy Angels a charge that they shall bear them in their Arms, and hold them in their Hands.
2 Consider, if we fear God, the Angels will not forsake us at death. They will be with us all our lives long; yea, and at and after death too: when we must forsake all the World; when our Bodies and Souls must part for a time; when our Souls forsake our Bodies; the blessed Angels will not leave us, until they have brought us into the presence of Christ in Glory. The very Heathen Philosophers, some of them had sentiments concerning this thing: They did not only believe, that the Souls of men are Immortal, but that at the time of Death, Evil Angels do carry away the Souls of wicked men, into a place of Torment: and that Good Angels carry the Souls of good men into a better World than this is: Doubtless, they had that knowledge from the Jews, as they had many notions (though they corrupted them) concerning the Invisible World from them, and the Jews from the Patriarchs & Prophets of old. The blessed Scriptures of God are exceeding clear concerning this: When Elijah was Translated, there appeared a Chariot of Fire, and Horses of Fire; that is to say, Angels in that form, to carry him up to Heaven, 2 King. 2.11. So when Believers leave this World, there is a Chariot and Horses of Fire prepared to conduct them to Glory: Hence is that Luk. 16.9. Make to your selves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness, that when ye fail, they may receive you into Everl••••ng Habitations: When ye fail, that is, when you dye, or cease to be in this World; ⟨p. 91⟩