1652 JOSEPH HALL. The Great Mysterie of Godliness & Invisible World Discovered with Spiritual Eyes. Rare on Angels & Demons!

Here is a very scarce work indeed by one of the most spiritual of the established church divines, Bishop Joseph Hall. Deeply inspired by the spiritual Platonism of its time [and perhaps the inspiration to Henry More's platonic spiritual classic, The Grand Mystery of Godliness, Hall goes straight for the spiritual jugular, demanding a supernatural, genuinely spiritual variety of Christianity. He builds his case theologically, systematically, and then demands authentic spiritual experience as the response. A groundbreaking work on spiritual reality and warfare. He begins: That there is an invisible world; of the distribution of the invisible world; the apparitions of angels; of the souls of men; the present vision of God upon the soul; of the [true] knowledge of the glorified; of the glory of heaven enjoyed; the reunion of body and soul; the devils and damned souls; of the evil angels [demons]; of the number of apostate spirits; of the power of devils; of the variety of spiritual assault