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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.
When Peter was sent to Preach the Gospel to Cornelius, and his Family, it was an Angel that did direct him unto them. When Paul and other Ministers Preached the Gospel to the Macedonians, an Angel of Heaven by Divine Appointment, caused them to do it, Acts. 16.9. Paul had a Vision, there stood a man of Macedonia, and Prayed him saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us: h. e. He saw an Angel habited like a Macedonian, who spake those Words to him, whence he and others with him concluded, that they were called to Preach the Gospel in Macedonia, and that God and his Angels would be with them there. Towns and Cities in which there are Churches of Saints Worshipping God in Christ, have no doubt their peculiar Angels to watch over them. When Jerusalem was besieged by the Assyrians, it is said the Angel of the Lord went out and smote the Camp of the Assyrians, 1 King. 19.35. It seems then, there was an Angel that did reside in and preside over that City, where the Temple was, who upon ⟨p. 30⟩this Occasion went out of it. So then, (as on• expresseth it) Angels are the Guard of the Queen of Heaven, the Lambs Wife.
2. The Care and Inspection of Angels, is not Limited to the Church only. That in a special manner, is the Object thereof; yet for the Churches sake, their Care and Tutelage doth extend much further. Many a Great man in the World, hath been wonderfully Protected and Delivered by the Angels of God, out of respect to his Church and People; though that man himself did never fea• God. Thus it was with Darius, the Emperor of Persia: an Angel did stand by him, and did confirm and strengthen him, Dan. 11.1. This the Angel did out of respect to the Lord's People▪ For Darius himself was an Idolater, and not a Worshipper of God. So Alexander, Surnamed the Great, he was far from being a true Feare of God, but he was kind to the Jews, then the only People of God in the World, and he was wonderfully preserved and prospered by the Angels of Heaven. He was delivered in miraculous Dangers: once he was Shot in his Shoulder, and another time sorely Wounded in his Leg, but strangely preserved in the midst of his Enemies, because God did design to humble and break th Enemies of his People, by the hand of that Alexander: Angels delivered him, until such time, as he had done the Work God had appointed for him. God then doth Govern the whole World by the Ministry of His Holy Angels: They are