16o ~ bJect:1ons anfU1eren. --~-------------- --------------- ft•nces n[11ally alicdgcd in the O!d and New '{ejbmtnt, arc p.tt ter>tJ and prejidents fry wbich ,.e moy b,_no>v what tocxpeCI ; thm llftelagetben was more vifible, andfcnfible, beca11[e the Clmrch 7'frr/y pla.nted, 11ecdcdtobe co11(irmed, b,t Gcd wo11ld have"' live by Fdith, andexpel/ all"" fitpportJ m ~ m~reJi:Jrztual wa} ; t~ougb we have not vifib/e apparitioJu)yrt ~c ! 11 11.Jereal ex • pmmcnts of th.r fuccutJr : the e••l Angels appear not, yet ne doubt not of the bnrt dune by tbem. Oh how hd ts tt, that we fhould be_lieve the evil Angds hurt us, though they ap– pear not fcnfibly agamlltb , and yet we wtllnot be!tcvc the good An"tls help u; without fenfible, or vihblc apparitions thereof. 0 ' 4• Y~uask, whether !1ad the Saints cf Cod failed or no; if they had looked at thetr _ddtver~nces to be wrought by the minillry of Angel>, unkfs by fomc fenfib le mani– ftllattot.' tt had been made hno_wn UntO them? I anrwn no ' they had not Jailed I but John 20 , , 9 , rather _,f they-had been lo lpmtual, and had br\ivcd as we do, they would have had more Ill rhem ot the Gcfpd· fpirt: b!cffid are tiJ~y tbJt IJJve not fiw, and )'Cl bave believed. Objetl. 111 Seer. f . : d Motive. 7'he Angels are a11 ordi,z.wceever prefent; the proofs make out this, rhJt no place can Olt!t us to in, bur .God eau (end hts Angels in umo us; bm tl11t they arc with us unkfs fpecially fent, thofe plac,s in rhe ACis feem not to prove; they cam: in exnaordinarily, and were owned to do it, becaufe feen to do it. You {ay, the proofS'!nake out, that no place Call llnlt liS ro in, bLHGod can fend his An– gels in unto us, "hzch is enough to prove, that mw "'·')' t•k.s ji-vm tts or:r Bibles, Teacher~, P~[f"rJ, qr they m.;y imprij;m us whue we cannot en 1 oy them) but tbcycn;:mJt t.zk._e from ztJ the holy Angels. But you fay, they are nor with us, unltffcefpecially lent, and \V.efuppofe them knt: but (fay you) when fent to tl'e Apollles, rhty came in rxtr&ordi. narily , and were owned to do it, bccaufc fcen todo it , that tilLy came in extraordi• narily, was not from th<ir prefence,or miflion,but (if any thing was extraordinary) it was from the apparition , fulgor, a~d light tlut fhincd in rhe Prifon,and from thLir openi11g the l'rifon doors, and bringing them f<>rth, and fpeaking audibl)', Go, &c. Arife up qt~ic<Jy, &.:. And fr om thefe maniteftatiuns the Angd1ore owned ; bm if there hatl been none of th,fe applririons, would you have denied Angcl·prefenr;e? cannot the Angel; be with u;, but theymufl fenfibly appear rous 1 Such an opinion is a llep to Sad- ~Zan1ch.ut. ductfm. And thcrefOt e our worthtes fay other wife; t Augdi qu1ram mram ex Dei pra ·3·'.. 17 • rnandatugertt;tt,coJ1nmqre.~rn pwitzt! omnive officii generedcfcrwif. And 0yeblfjJedSpiriti • B. Hall ibid. ({aith -\' another) yeare ever ly rr.e~ l'V{r wirb me, ever abnut me; I d(} aJ goodaJfeeyou, f ur · I k._now ym to be /me, 1reverenceY''"' glorio11> perfims, I ble{j God for y ou, I walb,. awfztl!y, be– cau[e I am ever inya1tr eyeJ, 1nulk,_confidently .bcc ...m[e I tJm cz:er in)'Our !JandJ. H ym1al... _ledge that ot ACis • ,, 1o. that when the Iron g"e was oprnr<l,and one Hreet palfed, Dingtey of An- rhe A>tgel forthwitb departedfrom Peter ; another a..Lvers, .' that the departing oftheAngel• 'gel, was only hJS d1fappeanng, or laym!\ down thlt bodtly fh•pe tlut was affiHned ; fo ' Chrifl is faid to leave,and not to leave the World ; w~ affirm therefore that good Angels ' are our conftanr alfociates till death; though their influencemay be filfpended, yet their Pfd: 91. 11. • preknce iscontinued, ~nd they never throughout our life do utterly and totally forfakc 'us; they arecharged to be with us, aod to keep us in ail our wayes. As a fhadow fol– ' loweth thebody without leaving it, or lagging be~ind, fodo the Angels accomplny Be– ' lievers in all their walks and waics. Objet/. Anf. In Mptive 3. That they improve other Ordi>tances. I• I11 Rc!igioza Services.] The inllances. llill ore extraordinarily: ACis to. L·,~ t. they came on peculiar melfages and fuch as feldom any now receive ; to lay that fuch a fcafonable , fuira])le thought in Prayer W>' put in by an Angel, becaufe Ged vilibly fc:nt an Angtlupcn fuch extraor– dinary occalions to Peter and Zachary when they wereat Prayer, is not fo eafie to me. Here you llrain my word$; I do not deliver it as my own opinion, but as the opinion of othcrs,faying,it iJ faid,tbat they fi•ggejtjititab!e,feafanablc, a11d pioztJ tbztJgbts atJitcb I time. So Mendoza in Reg. 1 .v:l.t .c. 2· 9· 244· P· And tor rhofe Texts in ACis re. Luks r • they were not urged ro prove the extraordinary put (as you call it) oftheir apparit i.ms,. oc– cafions, &c. but to prove their ordimry miniflntions in qJickning, checrwg, fuggelbp!j, pious thoughts at lcteh a time ; it you would but remcmber that on~ pllfage ettrd ?efore that' a.ll tboje injlanceJ of>iJt Old a11d New Teflamem are pa.ttCTit! aMdprefideJttJ b)'. wbz/b"'' may ~tnW what to expcCI' you ~vould no moreoppoleextraordmartCS to ordman~s ; I hope thcfC are eomparibk, altho".t.b we h.zve tbe li~e vijible appJritions, yet wem•y bave tbt li~ere.zl expcrimtllts •f Angcl-mini]i>'.llio1t; •lzlmt.~b nJw tiny donot appeal' i1z i;odilyjh<pet, )'ft.
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