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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.
USE. III.
Take heed then of Offending this God. He can let loose Angels, upon those that provoke Him; and one Angel of His, is able to destroy all the men upon the face of the whole Earth, in a very little time. An Angel went through the Land of Egypt, & in one night destroyed the first born in ⟨p. 25⟩every Family, that there was not one House in all that Kingdom, wherein there was not one Dead: One Angel did this in a nights time One Angel did kill among the Children of Israel, Seventy thousand in a few days. And in the Army of Sennacherib, an Angel slew above an hundred and fourscore thousand in one night. Angels are mighty Creatures, and can by thunder and lightning destroy all before them. It seems as if they did in that way destroy Sennacheribs Army: for it is on that account said, Who can stand before a Consuming fire? Isa. 33.15. When the Law was given, by the disposition of Angels on mount Sinai, there were terrible Thundering and Lightnings, and the Lord descended upon it in fire. Angels can make the Earth shake under us. It is said, There was a great Earthquake, for the Angel descended from Heaven, Math. 28.2. Oh! then fear this great God, who is the Lord of Angels: He that hath the Angels at his dispose, must needs have other Creatures at his dispose. There are Evil Angels, as well as good, and they are (though against their wills) at the Command of God. Oh! fear to offend God, lest He should let them loose upon you. And what are there any of you, that go to them, to make discoveries of things that cannot be otherwise known? I hear there are some such in this place, that have gone to an ungodly Fortune-teller, to reveal such things, as cannot be known, but by the help of Evil Angels. It is a sad thing, that such abominations should be heard ⟨p. 26⟩of in this Land of Light. Doubtless, we ma• suppose, that that has been one reason why th Holy God has been provoked, to let loose […] Angels upon New England two years ago. Me and Women have been Conjuring with their Sieves, and Keys, and Glasses; and are they now in Boston going to enquire of Devils, by the mouth of a wicked Fortune-teller? If the Lord be provoked to deliver you into the hands of evi Angels, you will find them terrible Creatures And all other Creatures are at his dispose too The Stars in their course did He make to fight against Sisera: