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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. Consider what benefit they that fear the Lord, shall receive by the Ministry of Angels at the Last and Great Day. Those Angels that do accompany their Souls, to the Mansions prepared for them in their Fathers House that is above, will come back again with them, at the day when there shall be a joyful meeting, between their Bodies and Souls, that have been for so long separated from each other. All the Angels in Heaven will be here at that Day: not an Angel in Heaven, but will come down into this lower World at that day. Christ will come, and all the Holy Angels with him. Mat. 25.31. Christ will make use of them as his Heralds; he will send them forth to Sound the Trumpet, and Summon all the World to come and stand before the Judgment Seat of the Son of God. And do we think, that they will then do nothing for the Heirs of Salvation? yes, surely. For although' the Work of Resurrection, like that of Creation, will (as a great Divine observes) be Effected by the Almighty Power of God alone, without the interveniency of Angels, or Secondary Finite Agents; ⟨p. 94⟩nevertheless, they will then be Employed to the unspeakable comfort and joy of all the Children of God. The Blessed Angels will go down with them, to the places where their Dead Bodies shall be revived, and then will carry those Bodies unto the Right-hand of Jesus Christ, where he shall sit to Judge all the Earth. Mat. 24.31. He will send his Angels, and they shall gather together his Elect, from one end of Heaven to the other. They must gather them together, and must bring them to the Lord Jesus Christ at that day. And then the Angels will separate all wicked men from them, so that none but Saints shall be together, which is a wonderful happiness. What a blessed spot of Earth would that be, if there could be a place found, where there are none but Saints, none but good men, and those made perfect too. Thus shall it be at that Day; and this will be effected by the Ministry of the Angels of Heaven: The Son of Man shall send fort• his Angels, and they shall gather out of his Kingdom all things that offend, and them that do iniquity. Mat. 13.41. In that Kingdom there will be none but real Saints of God. The Angels will drive away the Wicked, that none shall come there, as of old they kept Apostate Adam out of Paradise;