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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 Devils believe, that there is one God, and they tremble. Jam. 1.19. So they believe, that there is a Day of Judgment, that will be here ere long, and they tremble at the fore thought of it. We read in the Gospel of a Devil in a possessed man, who said to the Lord Jesus Christ, I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not. q. d. God has given us leave, as yet to be out of the ⟨p. 116⟩place of Torment, where we must at last be. Therefore I adjure thee by him not to send me thither. So that the Devils have a fearful expectation of that Day of Wrath. Mar. 5.7.
3. The ruin of the Angels that sinned is irrecoverable and eternal. Therefore is it said, that God hath not spared them, because they are without all hopes of ever being restored to their blessed State. They are cast down to Hell: they are not able to recover themselves. They are fallen down so deep into that Dungeon of Darkness, which Sin hath brought them into, that they can never rise again, by any power of their own. The Chains which they are in, the mighty Devils cannot break them: and the Holy God will not recover them. He hath not seen meet to do any thing for their being recovered out of the woeful misery, which they have sinned themselves into; God has not afforded any means for their Salvation▪ and therefore their ruin must needs be an Eternal Ruin. The Chains which the Devils are said to be in, are called, Everlasting Chains, Jude 6. The Fire of the Wrath of God, that they are condemned to endure, is called an Everlasting Fire. Mat. 25.41. It will be said to the Wicked at the last day, Depart with the Devil and his Angels into Everlasting Fire. So that the Angels that sinned are condemned to Everlasting Fire. God then hath not spared them, but hath made them Examples of Justice without Mercy.