N00620:193
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.
We in New-England have lately seen not only miserable Creatures Pinched, Burnt, Wounded, Tortured by Invisible Agents, but some Ecstatical Persons, who have strongly imagined that they have been attended with Celestial Visitants revealing secret and future things to them which if it should appear to be Diabolical Imposture, or the effect of an hurt Imagination only, or both, it may (if not timely prevented) be of dangerous Consequence to themselves and others; on which Occasion▪
We in New-England have lately seen not only miserable Creatures Pinched, Burnt, Wounded, Tortured by Invisible Agents, but some Ecstatical Persons, who have strongly imagined that they have been attended with Caelestial Visitants revealing secret and future things to them which if it should appear to be Diabolical Imposture, or the effect of an hurt Imagination only, or both, it may (if not timely prevented) be of dangerous Consequence to themselves and others; on which Occasion▪
THE seasonable Question or Case of Conscience which I am desired to express my Sentiments concerning, is, Whether Angelical Apparitions may in these Days be expected; and if so, how they may be discerned from Satanical Illusions?
THE seasonable Question or Case of Conscience which I am desired to express my Sentiments concerning, is, Whether Angelical Apparitions may in these Dayes be expected; and if so, how they may be discerned from Satanical Illusions?
We shall endeavour a succinct Answer to the Enquiry proposed in the Conclusions following.