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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 melancholy man overjoyed with the Vision, raised his House, who congratulating his felicity, he from that time grew ⟨p. 6⟩well, being thus relieved by an Artificial Angel. See Zacut. Tusit. p. 34. Many pretenders to a conversation with Angels, and to a Spirit or Gift of Prophesy, have been great cheats. Some would have us believe, the Nostradamus (who was Counsellor to three of the Kings of France) had Angelical Apparitions. There are two Learned men▪ viz. Rensardus, and Monlucius, that have written in his Defence. But others (and not upon slight grounds) reckon him an Impostor, and with a little alteration of his name, have given him the Elogy of Monstradamus. There was one that made this ingenious Distich for him.
The melancholly man overjoyed with the Vision, raised his House, who congratulating his felicity, he from that time grew ⟨p. 6⟩well, being thus relieved by an Artificial Angel. See Zacut. Tusit. p. 34. Many pretenders to a conversation with Angels, and to a Spirit or Gift of Prophesy, have been great cheats. Some would have us believe, the Nostradamus (who was Counseller to three of the Kings of France) had Angelical Apparitions. There are two Learned men▪ viz. Rensardus, and Monlucius, that have written in his Defence. But others (and not upon slight grounds) reckon him an Impostor, and with a little alteration of his name, have given him the Elogy of Monstradamus. There was one that made this ingenious Distick for him.
Nostra damus cum verba damus, nam fallere nostrum est,