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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.
A decad of Years are not past, since invisible Psalmodists have been heard Singing in the Air, and making most harmonious and ravishing melody there, as has been affirmed by not a few witnesses, of which M. Jurieu in his Pastoral Letters has given a well attested account to the World: What ever those voices might be, they put me in mind of the Targumists Exposition of the still voice, 1 King. 19.12. ⟨p. 13⟩viz. that it was the voice of Angels, Praising God in a gentle Harmony. I have else-where (in my Discourse about the Prevalency of Prayer, p. 16, 17.) mentioned a memorable passage concerning Mr. Patrick Simpson, an Eminent Minister at Sterling in Scotland, unto whom, after he had spent a day alone in Prayer with Fasting, Angels came, and gave him an answer concerning the thing which he had all the day been praying about, of which he never spoke one word to any one, excepting only to one person, who happened to over-hear something, whom he solemnly obtested, not to say ought of it, until after his Death, thus expressing himself, What am I dust and ashes, that the Holy Ministering Spirits should be sent by the Lord to deliver a Message to me.
A decad of Years are not past, since invisible Psalmodists have been heard Singing in the Air, and making most harmonious and ravishing melody there, as has been affirmed by not a few witnesses, of which M. Jurieu in his Pastoral Letters has given a well attested account to the World: What ever those voices might be, they put me in mind of the Targumists Exposition of the still voice, 1 King. 19.12. ⟨p. 13⟩viz. that it was the voice of Angels, Praising God in a gentle Harmony. I have else-where (in my Discourse about the Prevalency of Prayer, p. 16, 17.) mentioned a memorable passage concerning Mr. Patrick Simpson, an Eminent Minister at Sterling in Scotland, unto whom, after he had spent a day alone in Prayer with Fasting, Angels came, and gave him an answer concerning the thing which he had all the day been praying about, of which he never spoke one word to any one, excepting only to one person, who hapned to over-hear something, whom he solemnly obtested, not to say ought of it, until after his Death, thus expressing himself, What am I dust and ashes, that the Holy Ministring Spirits should be sent by the Lord to deliver a Message to me.