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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.
This her Father was a […] and judicious Divine, and a great opposer of Revelations and Visions, who when he understood, that his Daughter pretended to them, he did with great solemnity and severity, lay obtesta•ions on her, that she should not regard them. Nevertheless, he himself did at last think, that they were Angelical and Divine. Those super-eminent Divines, Ve•e•ius and Die•l•t, and other learned men in Geneva had a favourable opinion of them. Commenius who was her Tutor and Spiritual Father, has related such things of her as are marvellous and unaccountable. Once when an aged Minister came to visit and comfort her being sick, as soon as he was gone she said to her Tutor, That good old man little thinks that he must be the first of all the Pastors that shall go into the Eternal Country. Her Tutor asked her, how she knew that. To whom she ⟨p. 33⟩replied, I was with the Lord, and I saw the Pastors that live here coming one after another, of whom he was the first. She likewise told him, that she saw Stadius who was a young and a strong healthy man, come after him: And that because she did not see Comm•nius with them, she asked the reason. It was told her, that God had work for him to do on the Earth, and therefore he must not go to Heaven as yet. Th•se things happened accordingly. That Pastor dyed first, and then the rest; and Stadius when he was but in the fortieth year of his Age. But Comm•nius lived above forty years after. An Angel appeared to her, and told her she should speedily die of an Apoplexy: She was that night smitten with that disease. She made her will, and took her leave of all her friends: was for some time thought to be really dead: there was no breath perceived in her, but she was grown quite cold her hands & feet were become stiff like a dead persons; All persons went out of the Room, leaving only two. Nurses to lay her out: But on a sudden she rose up in her bed, and called for her Clothes, and was in such perfect health as before she had not been in, her lame hand & foot being made whole & perfect, to the astonishment of all about her. The account which she her self giveth of this matter, is, that on the day before, there was a knocking or striking on the Table, first one stroke, and after that five, whence she concluded, that the next day she should dye at five a Clock in the afternoon: That she heard a voice saying, Come, come, come.