Metadata
Title
Gilbert Tennent sermons 54, "De melis Angelis" (On evil angels), 1744
Date
1744/1756
Digital Identifier
PHS.TennentSermons054
Description
Gilbert Tennent (1703-1764) was an Irish-American Presbyterian clergyman, and one of the leaders of the Great Awakening.
Tennent begins this sermon on the topic of "evil angels" by citing 2 Peter 2:4, "For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;" and Jude 6, "And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling—these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day."
From dates noted in the manuscript, it looks like Tennent wrote this sermon in 1744, then delivered it again in 1747, 1750, and 1756.
Tennent begins this sermon on the topic of "evil angels" by citing 2 Peter 2:4, "For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;" and Jude 6, "And the angels who did not keep their positions of authority but abandoned their proper dwelling—these he has kept in darkness, bound with everlasting chains for judgment on the great Day."
From dates noted in the manuscript, it looks like Tennent wrote this sermon in 1744, then delivered it again in 1747, 1750, and 1756.
Subject
Place
Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Congregation
Second Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, PA
Holding Institution
Presbyterian Historical Society
Extent
23 pages
Format (Digital)
tiff
Rights
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Language
eng
Type
Text
Abstract
De malis Angelis (On bad angels) surveys angels fallen from heaven with pride their downfalls, some time between creation and the fall of Adam. Presents a fuller discussion of the Devil or Satan (here with no mention that Lucifer was his original name) but how he and his demon followers insinuate themselves into the minds and behaviors of humans.
Also presents a powerful rebuttal of Satan's power in a splendid list of comparisons: "what tho" Satan has a given power, God has a greater power, as long as congregants earnestly repent in mind and heart, with a repeated warning that as God's justice punished the angels, they should expect worse if through backsliding and apostasy humans, having heard the Gospel, abandon it.
Also presents a powerful rebuttal of Satan's power in a splendid list of comparisons: "what tho" Satan has a given power, God has a greater power, as long as congregants earnestly repent in mind and heart, with a repeated warning that as God's justice punished the angels, they should expect worse if through backsliding and apostasy humans, having heard the Gospel, abandon it.
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