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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.
He declared that he was commanded to publish his Revelations to all the Nations on the Earth, as the last will of God, which is contrary to Rev. 22.18, 19 some of the things which were revealed to him, were lies which never were, nor ever will be true. Yet he protested and swore, that although Angels appeared to him, his Revelations were from Christ Himself, who once showed his hand pierced through with a nail, and made him to see both the Tor•ents of the Damned in Hell, and the Joys of the Elect […] Heaven. He promised great Victories to Prince Rag•tzi, and would have had the Princess been at the charges of Printing some Books which he pretended a Command from Heaven that it should be done. But when his demands were not complied with, the mother with the father, the Son and the Uncle in that great Family being all taken away by death, he said the reason thereof was, because they had not complied with what he (as being sent from God) required them to do. These things are to be seen in his Protestation and Prayer written July 5 1664 Twenty years before that, viz. April 12. 1644. it was revealed to him that the Lord was about so do to the House of Austria, as he did to the House of Ahab, and to his Counsellors and Prophets as Elias did to the Baalites. That the tenth Emperor of the House of Austria should be the last, whereas the present Leopoldus who has been Reigning above thirty years, is the eleventh. It was also revealed to him, that Lewis 14 the present King of France should be Emperor of ⟨p. 31⟩Germany, and that the Persecuted Protestants of Bohemia, and Moravia should •y •im be delivered Concerning himself, the Spirit revealed to him, that he should be recalled out of his Banishment, and that he should not dye until he had seen the Glory of God spread upon all the Nations of the Earth. In reading the Narrative emi• ted by Commenius relating to this Drabicius, I could not but take notice of one vanity in him, which I am unwilling to pass by without a Remark, viz. that he would snatch up the Bible, resolving that the first place which he light upon, should be the answer to his doubt. Thus to make a Fortune-Book of the Blessed Bible, is a very unwarrantable Custom, however practised by many. It is indeed a paganish custom: The Heathen did in that way use Divinations.