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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    | a aN aa a a | And Warre with Angells. ESTE ae ( Angells : If you alkeas an appendix to this , whether the Angells have bodies,or are altogether incorporall, | lit is a queftion controverted betweene the Philofo- |, phers, the Schoolmen, andthe Fathers; the Plato- ” nifte would have them have bodies, to which many of | the Fathers adhere ; Ariftotle and the Schoolmen | would have them altogether incorporall , the reafons on both fides are not unworthy confidering , if one| would amufe themfelves in that; out of which the] Scripture gives no iffue,I will not trouble you with it, onely this, its fafe to fay, that they are not eflences fo fimple as they are altogether uncapable of compofi- tion, it isonely proper to God to have his being and _leffence or fubftance the fame; Angells are mutable , they confift ofan a&t which they are , and of a power intowhich they may be reduced, it is one thing in them to be fimply , and another thing to be indued with underftanding and will ; to be and to be good, to be and to be wife, God onely is J am, uncapable of any change , asofany compofition; ‘To fay God were an Angell, were a derogation, as to fay hee were a body ; unleffe you fiould meane by a body, a /ubftance, as Ter- tullian did,and fo called God a body, that is, a /ubftance : But ifthey have any fuch compofition , as may be cal- led a body, it is certainely of the greateft fineneffe and} fabtilty a {pirituall body, and therefore not like to be of that groffenes that either the aire is, of thofe heavens that ate framed out of the Chaos, butneerer the fubftance of the higheft heavens, which feeme to - \havebene made at the fame time: Toconclude, it lo.| | will be fafe to fay that in comparifon of God they ate | ye) | | bodies ; in comparifon of us they are pure give’ Ae | | Spirits. From this that hath bene faidin generall , of | fhe! | the nature of Angells, confider by way-of gees | ir |