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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.
Examples confirming this may be seen in Fienus his discourse concerning the power of Imagination, & in Laurentius, and Sennertus, and in Burton's Melancholy: some of which are related by Wanley in his wonders of the little World. Book 2. Chap. 1. That of the noble Argive is an old story mentioned by the Poets,—faith haud ignobilis Argis, who strongly fancied, that he saw Theatrical delights: but when by the care of his friends he was cured of his disease, he complained, that they had wronged him by robbing him of the pleasure, which he had in that sweet error of his mind. This man recovered by the helps of Art.
Examples confirming this may be seen in Fienus his discourse concerning the power of Imagination, & in Laurentius, and Sennertus, and in Burton's Melancholy: some of which are related by Wanley in his wonders of the little World. Book 2. Chap. 1. That of the noble Argive is an old story mentioned by the Poets,—fait haud ignobilis Argis, who strongly phansied, that he saw Theaetrical delights: but when by the care of his friends he was cured of his disease, he complained, that they had wronged him by robbing him of the pleasure, which he had in that sweet error of his mind. This man recovered by the helps of Art.
And care of friends, used sadly to complain,
Friends, I'm not Saved by this your Love, but slain,
Friends, I'm not Sav'd by this your Love, but slain,