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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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they had slaughter weapons in their hands, they were to make dreadful destructions and desolations in the World. But the Lord Jesus Christ saith to them, Set a mark on them that sigh and cry and mourn for the abom• nations that are done in Jerusalem. Saith Christ, I have a small company of gracious, humble, praying Souls in Jerusalem, who mourn for the sins of the times, do you my Angels have a special care of them, and come not near any of them to hurt them, when you are destroying all the World before you. Ezek. 9.4, 6.
they had slaughter weapons in their hands, they were to make dreadful destructions and desolations in the World. But the Lord Jesus Christ saith to them, Set a mark on them that sigh and crie and mourn for the abom• nations that are done in Jerusalem. Saith Christ, I have a small company of gracious, humble, praying Souls in Jerusalem, who mourn for the sins of the times, do you my Angels have a special care of them, and come not near any of them to hurt them, when you are destroying all the World before you. Ezek. 9.4, 6.
3. Let us imitate the Angels of Heaven. Let us endeavour to be as like them as may be, to become as Angelical, as our state of Infirmity will permit us to be. We should imitate Angels in respect of Serviceableness. The Angels are instruments of good to the World. So ought we▪ ⟨p. 100⟩to as many as possibly we can: we should endeavour, that the World may fare the better for us. The Angels are in a peculiar manner serviceable to the Church of God. Let us then in our several places and stations do all the Service we can, for the Church of God, in our generation; and we should be like them, in respect of obedience unto the Will of God. They are Patterns of Obedience unto us