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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
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 I.
We ought to bless God for the Benefit we receive by the Ministry of Holy Angels. For the Benefit we have thereby is great. We shall not know how great until we come to be with them in the Heavenly World. For the present their Ministry is Invisible, Angelical Apparitions are not so frequent in these days, as in the days of the Old Testament. Nevertheless, their Ministry continues still, and will do so, as long as there shall be any Heirs of Salvation on the Earth. Many evils are we kept from, by their Means. If we keep in our way which God has Commanded us to keep in, He has charged them to keep us, and to bear us up in their hands, that we dash not our feet against a stone, Psal. 91.11, 12. And many Mercies are conveyed to us, through their Agency: yet they do ⟨p. 116⟩nothing for us, but by a Divine appointment, Therefore the Praise of all is due to God, and not to them. As long as we are living on the Earth, they are doing for us, and when our Bodies are dead they befriend our Souls. And ought we not to bless God for the good we receive by their Ministry, both living and dying What tho' we know not particularly when they are at work for us? We know in general, that in life and in death they are our Attendants and our Guardians; and therefore, although' we may not give Thanks to them, they all with one Voice say, Do it not, Rev. 22.9. we may and ought to give Thanks to God for what they do, and shall do for us.
We ought to bless God for the Benefit we receive by the Ministry of Holy Angels. For the Benefit we have thereby is great. We shall not know how great until we come to be with them in the Heavenly World. For the present their Ministry is Invisible, Angelical Apparitions are not so frequent in these dayes, as in the dayes of the Old Testament. Nevertheless, their Ministry continues still, and will do so, as long as there shall be any Heirs of Salvation on the Earth. Many evils are we kept from, by their Means. If we keep in our way which God has Commanded us to keep in, He has charged them to keep us, and to bear us up in their hands, that we dash not our feet against a stone,