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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 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.
Conclusion I. Although it must be granted, that i• the Days of the Gospel, Angelical Apparitions are not so frequent as under the Old Testament, nevertheless; some such there have been, and still may be▪ What can he say that cometh after the King? God has been pleased to speak to us in these last days by his Son, who is the Lord of Angels, by whom he has made a sufficient Revelation of His Will in all matters, which he has thought meet to have us acquainted with▪ Heb. 1.1. As the New-Testament Dispensation is more spiritual, so the Ministry of Angels is less visible than in former times. There were ANGELOPHANEIAI, many Appearings of Angels, as also a frequency of Miracles, until such time as the Canon of Scripture was completed, and the Gospel sufficiently confirmed; but since that, both the one and the other are in great measure ceased, yet not so ceased as at no time or on no occasion to make themselves visible. That Learned and Worthy Divine, Dr. ⟨p. 5⟩