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Meat out of the eater. Or, Funeral-discourses occasioned by the death of several relatives.…
Meat out of the eater. Or, Funeral-discourses occasioned by the death of several relatives. Work accommodated unto the service of all that are in any affliction; but very particularly such as are afflicted with the loss of their consorts or children. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Four lines from I Corinthians]
Boston: printed by B. Green & J. Allen for Benjamin Eliot, 1703
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Secondly; Those bright Regions, that are the Place of Heaven, are the very best Rooms of the whose Creation, though the Upper Stories of is. Heaven for this cause is called, The Throne of God. We read, Psal. 11 4. The Lords Throne is in Heaven. Certainly, The Throne of God must be the ⟨p. 86⟩most Glorious Place that can be! Of Canaan it is said, It was the Glory of all Lands, Much more, may it be said of Heaven. Yea, Tis the Heaven of Heavens, where our Lord JESUS CHRIST fits upon His Throne that is. The most Excellent Heaven of all Indeed, the Heaven of the Blessed, contains vast Regions in it: There are many Mansions, yea, there are many Regions, in the Heavenly Country. The Earth, although it be above one and twenty Thousand Miles in Circumference, is but a small Point, if compared unto Heaven; perhaps 'twould be Invisible to one Stationed there.
Secondly; Those bright Regions, that are the Place of Heaven, are the very best Rooms of the whose Creation, though the Upper Stories of is. Heaven for this cause is called, The Throne of God. We read, Psal. 11 4. The Lords Throne is in Heaven. Certainly, The Throne of God must be the ⟨p. 86⟩most Glorious Place that can be! Of Canaan it is said, It was the Glory of all Lands, Much more, may it be said of Heaven. Yea, Tis the Heaven of Heavens, where our Lord JESUS CHRIST fits upon His Throne that is. The most Excellent Heaven of all Indeed, the Heaven of the Blessed, contains vast Regions in it: There are many Mansions, yea, there are many Regions, in the Heavenly Country. The Earth, although it be above one and twenty Thousand Miles in Circumference, is but a small Point, if compared unto Heaven; perhaps t'would be Invisible to one Station'd there.
Thirdly; The Chosen of God shall enjoy their Heaven, in more than One Individual Place. For, there will a Time come, when our Heaven shall be within our Atmosphere, in the Higher parts of this Air, and nor many miles from this Earth, for at least, a Thousand years together. It will be thus, during the Day of Judgment; yea, if that Thousand years, (which according to the promise, we look for!) make but the Morning to the Day of Judgment, we cannot say, How long we may see Heaven continue within this our Atmosphere. Tis said,