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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.
And as for the Elect of God, he hath not spared their sins, as appears in that his own Son was not spared, when he became a surety on their behalf, Rom. 8.32. God spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all. The Son of God who never sinned nor could sin, yet was not spared, when he became a Mediator undertaking to answer for sinners. That is the highest demonstration of the Holiness and Justice of God, that ⟨p. 125⟩can be thought of. As some Divines have expressed it, If a man would •ee the Justice of God set forth to the life, let him go to Golgotha, where Christ was crucified, and behold him on the Cross, and there hear him crying out, when bleeding and dying, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? And if a man would see the Justice of God set forth to the life of it, •et him go unto the Garden, where Jesus Christ was in his Agony, and let him there behold the Son of God sweating drops of Blood, because of the wrath of the Father, due for the Sins of men. So that we see glorious demonstrations of the Justice and Holiness of God, and of his infinite hatred of Sin.
Inference. 3. Sin makes men to become like unto the Apostate Angels. It turns men into Devils. There are wicked men who are Devils incarnate. And therefore sinners are said to be the Children of the Devil, and to be of the Devil, 1 Joh. 3.8. Namely as Children are of their Father. He is called their Father, Joh. 8.44. Ye are of your Father the Devil, and the lusts of your Father ye will do, saith Christ: Ye do just as the Devil doth, and just as the Devil would have you do, and therefore ye are his Children, and he is your father. There are Children in respect of Imitation: Sinners imitate the Devil: Yea, they have his Image, the very same evil nature, the same wicked disposition and sinful inclinations which are in the heart of the Devil, are in their hearts and natures.