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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.
Michael and his Angels, are more powerful, than Satan and all his Angels▪ And when Instruments of Satan, that is to say, wicked men, do intend and attempt evil against those that fear God, Holy Angels oftentimes disappoint them, & ⟨p. 42⟩so deliver the Lords Servants from many a Snare Balaam had a mischievous design against the Children of Israel, but an Angel met him, and disappointed him: The Angel of the Lord stood in th• way for an adversary against him, and said, I we•• out to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before me, Numb. 22.32. And when the King of Syria s•nt an Army to surround Dothan, and to apprehend the Prophet, Elisha, an Army of Angel• prevented them, & delivered the Prophet, 2 King. 6.17. And when God will have it to be so, th• Holy Angels cut off those that seek the hurt […] them that fear Him. They kill those wicked men who, if they were suffered to live any longer would do hurt unto the Fearers of the Lord. Ha• the Soldiers in Sennacheribs Army, lived a whil• longer, they would have fallen upon Jerusalem Therefore did Angels kill an hundred and fourscore and five thousand of them in one night Herod began to Persecute the Church: had he lived longer, he would have gone on with hi• Persecution. Therefore an Angel was sent from Heaven to kill him.
Michael and his Angels, are more powerful, than Satan and all his Angels▪ And when Instruments of Satan, that is to say, wicked men, do intend and attempt evil against those that fear God, Holy Angels oftentimes disappoint them, & ⟨p. 42⟩