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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.
2. It has been said, that Good Angels are terrible at their first appearance, but not at their departure, whenas evil Angels do not appear fright fully at first but at last. This is no infallible rule to judge by; nor does it agree with the Scripture. When three Angels appeared to Abraham, & two came to Lot, they were not at first terrified with the sight of them. Gen. 18.3. & 19.1, 2. The Angel that visited Manoah and his Wife, was not at his first appearance terrible, but at his departure he was dreadful to them. Judg. 13.22. The Devils first appearance to Saul as well as his last was amazing to him. The Scripture calls the Devil by the name of Seyir, whence the name of Satyr ⟨p. 37⟩seems to be derived. Lev. 17.7. Isa. 13.21. because Daemons have oft appeared to men in that horrid Shape. The Hebrew word which is translated Satyr the Seventy Greek interpreters express by Daimonia, i. e. Devils: the word in its original signification notes such an horror as does make the hai• of a mans head to stand upright. For the most part there is an horror attending Diabolical Apparitions: but it is not always so.
2. It has been said, that Good Angels are terrible at their first appearance, but not at their departure, whenas evil Angels do not appear fright fully at first but at last. This is no infallible rule to judge by; nor does it agree with the Scripture. When three Angels appeared to Abraham, & two came to Lot, they were not at first terrifyed with the sight of them. Gen. 18.3. & 19.1, 2. The Angel that visited Manoah and his Wife, was not at his first appearance terrible, but at his departure he was dreadful to them.