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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.
Conclusion III. Men ought to be very cautious of admitting or hearkening unto pretended Angelical Revelations. We have an awful Instance in the Scripture, of a good man, and a Minister of God also, who was drawn into a snare to the Loosing of his Life by hearkening to, and being deluded by pretended Angelical Revelations. 2 King. 13▪ 18, 21, 22. If the circumstances attending them do not at present manifest of what nature they are, we ought to wait, until God and time shall make a discovery. Yea, though the person• concerned in them should be of pious inclinations, and the messages brought to them should seem to be from Heaven, it is a duty rather to suspend a Judgment in the case, than to give any credit thereunto. And this for several reasons.
Conclusion III. Men ought to be very cautious of admitting or hearkning unto pretended Angelical Revelations. We have an awful Instance in the Scripture, of a good man, and a Minister of God also, who was drawn into a snare to the Loosing of his Life by hearkening to, and being deluded by pretended Angelical Revelations. 2 King. 13▪ 18, 21, 22. If the circumstances attending them do not at present manifest of what nature they are, we ought to wait, until God and time shall make a discovery. Yea, though the person• concerned in them should be of pious inclinations, and the messages brought to them should seem to be from Heaven, it is a duty rather to suspend a Judgment in the case, than to give any credit thereunto. And this for several reasons.
1. Because the Written Word of God is sufficient to direct us in all •ases. If we do but rightly understand what is contained therein, we know enough. The man of God may be perfect and throughly furnished to all good works by the Scripture.