Militia spiritualis. Or a treatise of angels handling the nature, power, substance and existence of good [and] evill angels. Wherein is likewise shewed: what incredible power, secret influences, wiles and wayes, methods and moods the good and bad angels doe daily exercise in the hearts of men. Though they little mind it : all tending to the saints inward peace and heart-communion with Jesus Christ / by Henry Lawrence.

  • Lawrence, Henry, 1600-1664.
Date:
1652
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Credit: Militia spiritualis. Or a treatise of angels handling the nature, power, substance and existence of good [and] evill angels. Wherein is likewise shewed: what incredible power, secret influences, wiles and wayes, methods and moods the good and bad angels doe daily exercise in the hearts of men. Though they little mind it : all tending to the saints inward peace and heart-communion with Jesus Christ / by Henry Lawrence. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    e-em Sy Pe ao [cueTETEnnTEnT ont nan EInA RI ARAIEIT aIEERERIRRERIRRRIRAR REE manamiaeaamens iene aara anaes ‘nen Reamer meememne aa! And WarrewithAngells. =» 163 CTIA i Getcha hee bOI our joy .arifing from ‘them , are‘of things fo great and reall, as the little'y but yet the true tafte wee have of | them, makes us defire more ; Itisour knowledge that makes us vallewe our hopes, and joy inthem, and it. | is our ignorance that caufeth us to hope no more , ‘nor | rejoycé inthe good things, which are the objects of | |chem ; And therefore wee fee faith which gives a reall evidence and fight of things, intends above any other | thing dur hopes ; arid want of faith , and weaknefle of faith leflens our hopes, and the joy of them. The object of our hopes are things great, thing heavenly, things eternall, and thefe are the matter, if any other thing beeyof joy; Oppofite to which are thedead, begearly , and-fenfible things of this world, which are miftaken alwayes in hope, and ufually defpi- fed in poffeffion, fo that not onely fimply, but in com- parifon with other things , wee have all reafon for the joy of hope: The warrant of thisjoy wee have given you already, whenwee fhewed the reafon of otir joy in oppofition to wicked mens boaftings , but the end'is not onely‘for it felf ( thou gh'that be much ,' that wee | may live comfortably , that wee be in'as gooda condi- ‘tion as this ftate is capable of) but joy as arefult and | concomitant of hopé, is mighty for Battaile; ye are inlow ih the lifts, aad ye put’ on armour , the joy of Flope, | whichis thejoy ofthe Lord,vs our flrength : Fee that rejoy- | ceth’ not in the hope of things to come, will rejoyce invaite hopes ,-or in ferifuall enjoymients : Hee that _cannot take in the pleafures of falvation by hope, will: affuredly joy the joyes of wicked men’, for hee wants | this armour againft pleafures anid fenfuall joyes; which’) isa’ weapon Sathan-weilds to our dis-advantage , af-| | mueli as aity , andtheretore, know how toarme your | head by hope, and againtt rhe pleafares-and ] oyes of) | ae acta cen a ERE et CU i ee ee reat erent See er a CI TTR