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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    Low a Vw And Warre wth Angels. 13 Firft becaufe the Angells are not produced out of the power of any matter as corporal fubftances , and || | thefoules of beafts,but are produced onely by the word | of God; and therefore asthey have no internal] prin- || | ciple of being, fo havethey none of diffolution ; for | there isthe famereafon of being, andnot being. - Secondly Angelicall naturesas the {oules alfo of men, ‘are not compounded of matter & forme, but are fimple | formes and fubftances , fubfifting by themfelves ; now {all corruption, mortality, and death is by the fepara- tion of the forme from the matter , as when the foule is feparated from thebody, which is.corruption , or death; or when the accidentall forme is feparated from the fubjeé, as white from the wall, or health from the man , now what ever wants matter is incorruptible, becaufe there is no compofition, and fo no feparation; but the Scripture concludes this beft in affimulating | | | the ftate of immortality in which wee fhall be tothe | | Angells; ‘This is the third confideration wee make of the nature of Angells, that they are immutable. Fourthly wee will confider of the apparitions of | Angells , of which wee heare fo frequent mention in | |the Scriptures , and the confideration whereof will | | proove fo proper to our purpofe. | | |}* One manner of their appearings hath bene in dreames,, another invifions, the thirdinaffumption | | ofbodies,and that either ofbodies formed of nothing, || or of pre-exiftant matter them formed, or pofleffing andacting naturall bodiesalready made. | | . Some have thought, there hath bene no affumption 1 lof bodies , but onely an appearance to the fancy and imagination ; but that muft needs be otherwife , for what ever is a fubftance which is not a body, nor hath a body naturally united; and yet is fometime feerte : B with