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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
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3. Some have thought, that the Apparition of a good Angel leaveth no room for doubting. That persons visited by holy Angels cannot possibly have any hesitation in their minds, whether they are such o• no But this also is a mistake. Men may converse with Angels, & yet not be aware of it Heb. 13.2. Neither Abraham, nor Lot, nor Gideon, nor Manoah's Wife, nor he himself did at first know that the persons who came and discoursed with them, were Angels Judg. 13.16. When the Angel Gabriel came to the Mother of our Lord, she was at first at a loss about what was spoken to her: She was troubled at his saying, & cast in her mind, what manner of Salutation this should be. Luk. 1.29. As for the holy Prophets, they it is true neither did nor could doubt whether they were divinely inspired. For that Divine light which was implanted in their understandings, did shine with that power as made them certain that God spoke to them. There was an IDIOTS ARRETOS, an inexpressible peculiarity in them. No man that was a subject of that Irradiation, could be ignorant of it: nor could any ⟨p. 38⟩persons be deceived besides such as had it not: which is more than can be affirmed of all Visions or Apparitions of Angels.
3. Some have thought, that the Appa•ition of a good Angel leaveth no room for doubting. That persons visited by holy Angels cannot possibly have any hesitation in their minds, whether they are such o• no But this also is a mistake. Men may converse with Angels, & yet not be aware of it Heb. 13.2. Neither Abraham, nor Lot, nor Gideon, nor Manoah's Wife, nor he himself did at first know that the persons who came and discoursed with them, were Angels Judg. 13.16. When the Angel Gabriel came to the Mother of our Lord, she was at first at a loss about what was spoken to her: She was troubled at his saying, & cast in her mind, what manner of Salutation this should be.