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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 was such an other Papist as Erasmus was, whom the Papists are wont to picture hanging between heaven & hell. Papists have accused Bodinus for an Heretic, because he makes an honourable mention of Luther, Calvin, & Melanchthon. v. Possevin. Bibliothec. sell. l. 16.•.9. He was an ingenuous & judicious writer: Now in his Daemonomania, there are strange instances recorded which confirm what we assert. Remigius also speaks of a young man whose name was Theodore M•illot unto whom a Daemon appearing, exhorted him not only to abstain ⟨p. 40⟩from drunkenness, uncleanness, theft, and the like evils, but to be constant in his attendance on the Public worship of God▪ to be very charitable to the poor, and to be frequent in fasting. Would not any man have taken this counsellor for a good Angel? Let me here take notice of another Example, which many still alive do remember. In the Islands of Fer•e which are subject to the King of Denmark, there was in the year 1667. a young man whose name is Jacob Oluffso• : he on January 7th. in that year, was afflicted with a disease that made him keep within doors a fortnight: on January 20th. being Lords day there appeared to him one in shining garments, and made the room where he was, full of splendour. He gave a kind Salutation to the young man, asking him about his pain, and then stroking him with his hand, the young man was presently healed. This shining Spirit used those words to him, Be thou whole and si• no more. He exhorted him to pray three times every day, and that he should admonish the people where he lived, that they should pray also, and that they should leave off their Cursing & Swearing, & desist from all other sins, that so the anger of God may be appeased: So did the Spirit depart from him. But five days after he appeared again, and did then sing the 23. Psalm. The young man had a strong impulse on his Spirit to go abroad, where he saw in the Southwest the heavens opened, & one coming down thence, who at length came & stood by him, habited like a Minister, & told him he should ⟨p. 41⟩not at all doubt, but that he came from God. The next Lords-day, being January 27, the glittering spirit appeared to him the third time, asking whether he had performed, what he was commanded. He said, Yes, he had. But this Spirit replied, You have not done it so earnestly as ought to have been. He appeared several times after this.