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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The SIN and MISERY OF THE FALLEN ANGELS.
Explained and Improved according to SCRIPTURE REVELATION.
2 Pet. 2.4. God spared not the Angels that Sinned.
There were in the Primitive Times (as there are in these days) men, who although' they did call themselves Christians, had apostatized from the great Truths of the Gospel, embracing Fundamental Errors in Religion. The Apostle in the beginning of this Chapter, shows, that such cannot Escape the Destroying Judgments of Heaven, which would unavoidably come upon them. And this he proves by an Argument taken from the Example ⟨p. 105⟩of what had befallen other Sinners. There are three exceeding awful Instances here mentioned. The First is that of the Sinning Angels. The Second is that, which befell the Apostate Old World: Notwithstanding, there was a World of them, (the Lord knows how many Thousands, how many Millions there might be) nevertheless they were all destroyed, excepting one small Family. The Third Instance, is, that Of Sodom and Gomorrah, and those Cities that were Condemned by an Eternal Overthrow. When they sinned against God, he punished them with the Vengeance of Eternal Fire. The words at present before us, fall under the first of these Examples, namely, that Of the Angels which sinned. I have spoken many things to you concerning the Holy Angels, who never sinned against God. It may not be unsuitable to discourse something concerning the Reprobate Angels, who have sinned, and are damned for it. When it is said, God spared them not, the meaning is, that he did show them no mercy; that he made them become the Subjects of his Wrathful Judgments; that he did not forgive their sin, nor did ever make an offer of mercy to them.