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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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1. We must make sure, that we have an interest in Jesus Christ. For, all the Angels of Heaven are at His Command, who is their Lord and General. The Man Christ Jesus commands the living Creatures: He sits on a Throne in the Firmament, which is above ove• their heads; and they continually receive Orders from him. Ezek. 1.26. The Cherubims were at the two ends of the Mercy's Seat, to note, that the Angels do continually wait upon Christ: Their Wings were stretched forth covering the Mercies Seat, signifying their •••diness to Serve the Lord Christ; and their Faces were towards the Mercies Seat, implying the joint consent and agreement o• the Angels herein. Exod. 25.19.20. Our Lord would have his people know, that the Blessed Angels are all at his dispose. Therefore has He declared it from Heaven, saying, I Jesus have sent mine Angel to testify unto you these things in the Churches. Rev. 22.16. If the Lord Jesus, who says the Angels are his, shall say to this or that Angel in Heaven, Go thy way, there is such a Servant of mine, take thou the care of him, it is done immediately. And it is by means of the Mediation of Jesus Christ, that we obtain this ⟨p. 97⟩privilege of the Ministry of Angels. The Angels of God ascend and descend on the Son of Man. Joh. 1.51. It is by means of the Son of man, by means of Jesus Christ, that the Angels of God do ascend & descend for us, as for Jacob of old▪ Christ is the Jacobs Ladder which •oucheth Earth and Heaven, and joins them both together by his Mediation. If Christ be ours, His Holy Angels are ours too If ye are Christs, then all is •ours Hence the Apostle speaks of things in Heaven that are by Christ reconciled: There are Souls in Heaven indeed, that are reconciled to God by means of Jesus Christ; which some take to be the meaning of that Scripture: But it is moreover true, at there are Angels in Heaven, who are by Christ reconciled, not to God, whom they have not offended, but to us. When we had sinned, those Creatures in Heaven, those Holy Spirits, were offended at us, but Jesus Christ hath caused friendship to be between Angels in Heaven and Saints on Earth: If we belong to Christ, we are for his sake dear to his Angels: They take pleasure in doing good Turns or them that are by Faith united to Christ, be they never so mean in the World. I in Christ, we are the Angels Fellow Servants.