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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.
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. 2 Tim. 3.17. It was for this reason that Luther never desired Visions or Angelical Apparitions. Pactus sum cum domino, ne vel visiones, vel etiam Angelos mihi mittat. Contentus sum hoc dono, quod habeo scripturam sanctam, quae abunde docet et suppeditat omnia qua sunt necessaria, cum ad hanc tum ad futuram vitam Thus He. Not to be satisfied with Scripture-Revelation, is curiosity and inquisitiveness justly to be condemned. Tertullian said well, nobis curiositate opus non est post Christum Jesum, nec inquisitione post Evangelium. Advers. Haeres. cap. 4. He has therefore not without cause been blamed by some for his too much minding the Raptures and Revelation• ⟨p. 25⟩of an Ecstatical person in the Congregation where he was Teacher. When persons once begin to listen to any thing, as a ground of their Faith, besides the Scriptures, they know not where they shall stop. The blessed God does permit Satan thus to tempt men, that so an occasion of stumbling may be cast before some: & that so he may try the fi••lity and sincerity of others, whether they will indeed cleave unto him, according to the Revelation, which he has made of his will by the written Word: Therefore does he suffer Dreamers of Dreams, and pretended Prophets to come amongst them. Deut. •3.3. Had men no Scriptures to go unto, their listening after Visions and Voices would be more excusable.
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 perfest and throughly furnished to all good works by the Scripture. 2 Tim. 3.17. It was for this reason that Luther never desired Visions or Angelical Apparitions. Pactus sum cum domino, ne vel visiones, vel etiam Angelos mihi mittat. Contentus sum hoc dono, quod habeo scripturam sanctam, quae abunde docet et suppeditat omnia qua sunt necessaria, cum ad hanc tum ad futuram vitam Thus He. Not to be satisfied with Scripture-Revelation, is curiosity and inquisitiveness justly to be condemned. Tertullan said well, nobis curiositate opus non est post Christum Jesum, nec inquisitione post Evangelium. Advers. Haeres. cap. 4. He has therefore not without cause been blamed by some for his too much minding the Raptures and Revelation