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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.
Adam did no sooner eat the forbidden fruit, but he and all his posterity were poisoned to death in that very moment: such an Evil is it. And therefore if men go on sinning against God, it is in vain for them to think they shall escape the hand of that Justice which hath not spared the Angels that sinned. Whatever man shall go on in his Trespasses, will at last find Judgment without Mercy. He that despised Moses's Law, died without mercy, of how much sorer punishment suppose ye shall he be thought worthy, that hath trodden under foot the Son of God. As for Sinners, especially under the Gospel, oh what will become of them! as the Apostle here speaks▪ if God spared not the Angels that sinned, if so, ⟨p. 130⟩what then? then (saith he) you may be sure, he will not spare men that shall sin, and continue in their sins▪ and least of all, men who have had the offer of the Gospel, and yet have despised it. Men that have the Word of God Preached to them, and who hear Sermons wherein Christ and Salvation by him, is offered to them, and yet for all that continue in unbelief, they sin at such a rate, as the Devils never sinned. Oh! what a Condemnation will they bring upon themselves? Judgment without Mercy, or any hope of mercy; because they have sinned against the Redeeming Blood and Bowels of Jesus Christ the Son of God, which the Angels that sinned have not done.
Wherefore let me conclude with Exhorting you to get your Souls clear of the guilt of sin. They that desire to experience the sparing, pardoning mercy of God, are concerned to get clear of sin, that God may look on them as without sin: and who is there, whom this Word of the Lord concerneth not? There is not a man in the whole world whom this Word of the Lord concerneth not, for that all men have sinned. Indeed, all the Angels have not sinned; there are innumerable Holy Angels that never sinned against God; but as for men, they have all sinned. The Scripture (God in his Word) has concluded all under sin, Gal. 3.22. without excepting so much as one. The whole world is become guilty before God: And therefore all men are concerned to consider of