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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. They are Immortal, and in that respect resemble the Glorious God. The Lord is styled, the Everlasting God, and the Immortal King: and i• is said of him, 1 Tim. 6.16. that He only hath Immortality: He only hath it originally; He only hath Immortality of himself; but Angels have Immortality by the Gift of God. Although Eternity cannot be affirmed of the Angels; nevertheless, Eviternity, or Immortality may be affirmed o• them. Though they had a Beginning, once they were not,, they shall never cease to be: what they are now, they shall be for ever. An Ange• cannot dye. It is said, that after the Resurrection, the Children of God shall be [ISANGELOI,] Equal unto, or like the Angels, neither can they Dye. Luk. 20.36. They will be made like the Angels, in respect of Immortality, or an impossibility of Dying. An Angel is a Creature that can never Dye. Indeed, God that made them, can annihilate them at his pleasure; but they are not Subjects capable of Death or Dissolution: as not being out of Pre existent Principles. Nor does Nature decay in them, as in Mortal Creatures. Although' they have Lived now for the space of more than Five Thousand Years, they are not subject to any decay of Nature, but are as strong and vigorous, as in the day they were made.
2. They are Immortal, and in that respect resem•ble the Glorious God. The Lord is styled, the Everlasting God, and the Immortal King: and i• is said of him, 1 Tim. 6.16. that He only hath Im•mortality: He only hath it originally; He only hath Immortality of himself; but Angels have Immortality by the Gift of God. Although Eternity cannot be affirmed of the Angels; nevertheless, Eviternity, or Immortality may be affirmed o• them. Though they had a Beginning, once they were not,, they shall never cease to be: what they are now, they shall be for ever. An Ange• cannot dye. It is said, that after the Resurrection, the Children of God shall be [ISANGELOI,] Equal unto, or like the Angels, neither can they Dye.