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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.
ANGELS (both the Good and Evil Ones) have a greater Influence on this World, than men are generally aware of. Monitions of Dangers, and of Great Changes are oftentimes from Good Angels. Beza was strangely affected with a Dream, which he Communicated to the Magistrates of Geneva, by means whereof the City ⟨image ?⟩was Saved from an Impending Mischief. This could not be from an Evil Angel. Nevertheless, Providence does sometimes Permit and Order Moni•ions of Future Evils by them: Thus Brutus was by a Daemon Fore-warned of his Death. Arch-bishop Spotwood Writes, that One of the Kings of Scotland was terrified with the Vision of a Person, whom he had caused to Sin much against his Conscience, who Cried to him. Woe worth the Day that ever I knew thee, for because I have sought to please thee against God and His Servants, I am now adjudged to the Torments of Hell. The next morning he understood, that that man was dead, and that he dyed just at the Hour, when he appeared to him, after that affrighting manner. He also dreamed that Sir James Hamilton, whom he had caused to be Executed, came to him with a Drawn Sword, and therewith cut off both his Arms, whilst he was musing what should be the meaning of that Dream, News was brought him of the Death of both his Sons. Our English Histories report, that the Lord Stanley, had a Dream, in which it seemed to him, that a Boar Gored him, and the Lord Hastings; and because the D. of Gloucester gave the Boar for his Arms or Cognizance, it made a dreadful Impression upon his Spirit, that mischief was by him secretly intended against them. He that Night sent to the Lord Hastings about it, who looked on it, as no more than a Dream or Phansy; but the next day, the Lord Stanley was Wounded, and the ⟨image ?⟩Lord Hastings was Murdered by the Bloody Treachery of that Boar, the D. of Gloucester, who was afterwards K. Richard 3. And we know from the Scripture, that an Evil Angel foretold, the Fall of Saul and Jonathan, and the Great Mutations, which should then happen, in the Kingdom of Israel. Jewish Commentators say, that the Reason, why Saul cut off the Witches throughout the Land, was, because they Foretold that David should be King.
ANGELS (both the Good and Evil Ones) have a greater Influence on this World, than men are generally aware of. Monitions of Dangers, and of Great Changes are oftentimes from Good Angels. Beza was strangely affected with a Dream, which he Communicated to the Magistrates of Geneva, by means whereof the City