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Several sermons wherein is showed, I. That Jesus Christ is a mighty Saviour. II.…Several sermons wherein is shewed, I. That Jesus Christ is a mighty Saviour. II.…
Several sermons wherein is showed, I. That Jesus Christ is a mighty Saviour. II. That God converts his elect some at one age, and some at another, commonly before old age. III. That when godly men dye, angels carry their souls to another and a better world. : With a preface in which there is a brief and true character of the Reverend Mr. Thomas Bridge a lately deceased pastor in one of the churches in Boston. / By Increase Mather, D.D. ; [Four lines of quotations]Several sermons wherein is shewed, I. That Jesus Christ is a mighty Saviour. II. That God converts his elect some at one age, and some at another, commonly before old age. III. That when godly men dye, angels carry their souls to another and a better world. : With a preface in which there is a brief and true character of the Reverend Mr. Thomas Bridge a lately deceased pastor in one of the churches in Boston. / By Increase Mather, D.D. ; [Four lines of quotations]
Boston: printed by B. Green for Benjamin Eliot, 1715
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1. Angels are by Divine appointment, Guardians of such as belong to God. Psal 34 7. The Angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him. They are charged with them, Psal. 91.11, 12. He shall give his Angels charge over them. They shall bear them up in their h•nds. As tender Nurses do the Children which are committed to their charge. An Heir of Salvation does no sooner come into the World, but Angels are charged to look after him. Nor does the greatest Angel in Heaven think it beneath him, to have such a Charge: Heb. 1. ⟨p. 109⟩14. Are they not all ministering Spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of Salvation. For the Devil stands ready to devour them as soon as they are born, as he would have done our Saviour Christ: Rev. 12.4. The Dragon stood before the Woman, which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her Child as soon as it was born: which Words although' figurative, have respect to that which is really true. As soon as Christ was Born, the Devil stood ready to devour Him, by his Instrument Herod, but he was preserved from that Dragon, by the Ministry of an Angel, Mat. 2.13. So are the Elect of God under the Guardianship of Angels, whilst in a state of Infancy. The Scripture gives us to understand that […] ones have their Angels, Mat. 18 10 And when they are arrived to Adult Age, still Angels have the charge of them. Wherever they are, whether by Sea or Land Angels are with them Thus from their Infancy, and to their Old Age, and to their dying Day. The Lord says of his ⟨p. 110⟩People, They are born by me from the belly, and are carried from the womb, and even to your old age I am he, and even to hoar hairs will I carry you, even I will carry and deliver you,