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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86330	A discourse of the souls of men, women, and children; and of the holy and blessed angels in heaven, and of the evil and damned spirits in hell: shewing that they are immortal, spiritual substances, as well as the angels in heaven. Written because this author met with four willfull ignorant men at one time, which said, the souls of men, women, and children, were nothing but breath, and vanished into air, when as the body went to the grave. These unfaithful people ought to be answered and reproved: / by the author, Thomas Hicks.	Hicks, Thomas, 17th cent.	1657 (1657)	Wing H1882; Thomason E903_5; ESTC R207421	6,951	15

brother shall rise again Martha said unto him I know he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day Mark Marthas faith I know he shall rise again saith she but Iesus saith plainly I am the resurrection and the life he that beleeveth in me although he were dead yet shall he live And in Revel 20. vers 11. And I saw a great white throne and him that sat upon it from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away and there was found no place for them And I saw the dead both small and great stand before God and the books were opened and another book was opened which was the book of life and the dead were judged of those things which were written in the books according to their works And the sea gave up her dead which were in her and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them and they were judged every man according to his works This hath been written for the dignity and high noble birth of the souls of men women and children which are regenerated by faith and repentance For he that will not beleeve that his soul is a spiritual substance and carried into heaven at the day of his departure from his body by the Holy Angels and there to rest in joy until the day of the resurrection that he receive his own body again with extraordinary joy and comfort that man or woman that is so weak in faith will be very doubtful of the resurrection too Therefore loving Friends and Christians let us give no place to any vain disputers against these truths but let us learn by the Word of God to silence them I promised to write something of the evill spirits which we call Divels These spirits are envious and malicious lying and murthering Divels and deceitful damned wretches The Apostle S. Paul calls him A Prince of the air which rules in the children of disobedience he being a spirit a subtle old spirit of experience that rangeth about the world seeking whom he may destroy he is a tempter and an accuser to he alwaies desires of God commission to do mankind hurt see Iob Chap. 1. vers 11. But put forth thine hand and touch all that he hath and he will curse thee to thy face What a lying bold impudent Divel was this to accuse that righteous man so falsly and having got Commission he raiseth up troops and bands of wicked men to spoil his estate And so would he spoil the Estates and Lives of Gods people now at this day and in all ages were he not chained up by Gods power but he rules and blinds the understanding of rebellious sinners that they may not come to the knowledge of the truth and so be saved This Divel is the greatest Liar that ever was He told our Saviour That all the Kingdoms of the world were his and the glory of them and that he could give them to whomsoever pleased him All the cheaters and couseners in the world could not tell a bigger lie for he is chained up by the power of God and hath nothing that is good for himself our Lord and Saviour was too wise and strong for that lying Divel but our Grandfather and Grandmother Adam and Eve were plainly cheated and cousened by this abominable Lyer For saith he you shall not die at all if you eat this fruit when as the poor cheated souls were judged to die and their bodies to turn to dust presently after and their souls had died eternally had not our merciful Lord God found out a way to save faithfull beleevers Now any man or woman that read this little Book may well know what chearing lying Devils there are although knowledge be sufficient for understanding men to beware yet those children of disobedience whom this Divel doth so much rule in their souls must take heed this envious cheating Lier do not cheat them still for he will tell them that they be brave wisemen and will tell them an hundred lies that they be the happiest men in the world and that they that dare not do as they do are but Punies but let those brave Sparks take heed they do not catch a serpent instead of a fish And so I am glad I have done with the Divel at this time I now will write a Word or two more of the holy and blessed and good Angels in the second and third Chapters of the Revelation we read of Ministers called Angels and those that divide the Word of God aright amongst us and administer the two Sacraments which our Lord Jesus Christ hath left to his Church are Angels and good Angels indeed and their lips shall preserve knowledge but our writing hath been of invisible Angels which are ministring spirits sent forth for them which are heirs of Salvation Hebrews the first and the last Verse these glorious Spirits are an innumberable company thousand thousands ministred unto him and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him before the all-seeing God whose eyes behold all the inhabitants in the world at one time and knoweth all the secrets of their souls and heareth all their voices In Dan. 7. vers 10. A fiery stream issued and came forth before him the judgement was set and the books were opened The holy Angels have divers great Offices as you see in many places of the Revelation and in the sixt of Daniel vers 22. My God hath sent his Angel and hath shut the mouth of the Lions that they have not hurt me Now you may know certainly that God hath made these spiritual creatures of great force and power And so I desire Gods blessing on this labour Amen FINIS