N00620:8
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.
The Epistle Dedicatory. To the Right Honourable, HUGH BOSCAWEN Esq. One of His Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council.
SIR,
THE only Reason of this Dedication, is, That so I might Testify the Grateful Sense, which I have (and ever ought to have) of the kindness, which Your Honour ha's Obliged the People of New-England by, in that You have upon all Occasions according to the Capacity and High Station, which the Divine Providence ha's set You in, improved Your Interest for their Benefit. You have many years since approved Your self an Obadiah to the Lord's Prophets and ⟨image ?⟩Servants: And now the Most High by a Wonderful Revolution, ha's placed You, where Your Talent for the Service of God & Your Country, is greater than formerly: I see in You another Mordecai, who, being near unto the King, sought the Wealth of his People. And such is Your diffusive Goodness, as that You have been willing to do Kind Offices for a poor People afar off in a Wilderness, where You have no Temporal Interest, or Relations, nor Expectation of any Reward from men, and which therefore, nothing but a Christian Generosity could incline You unto. The Lord Jesus Christ, and His Holy Angels, are Witnesses of all that You have done, or spoken, in the Behalf of any of them that fear Him, and He will Acknowledge it before His Father, and before His Angels, another Day. To His Grace, I Humbly Recommend YOU, and Remain,