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Meditations on death. Delivered in several sermons, wherein is showedMeditations on death. Delivered in several sermons, wherein is shewed
Meditations on death. Delivered in several sermons, wherein is showed; I. That some true believers on Christ are afraid of death, but that they have no just cause to be so. II. That good men as well as others may be taken out of the world by a sudden death. III. That not earth but heaven is the Christians home. / By Increase Mather, D.D. ; [Two lines from Hebrews]Meditations on death. Delivered in several sermons, wherein is shewed; I. That some true believers on Christ are afraid of death, but that they have no just cause to be so. II. That good men as well as others may be taken out of the world by a sudden death. III. That not earth but heaven is the Christians home. / By Increase Mather, D.D. ; [Two lines from Hebrews]
printed by Timothy Green, 1707
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PROPOSITION III.
That Men are very subject to a Sinful Sleeping. Therefore Christ here […] so Earnestly Caution His Disciples against it. He does no less than Three times one after another call upon them, Watch! Watch! Watch! Intimating that men are in danger o• Unwatchfulness; of Sinful Sleeping▪ There are but Two sorts of men in the world, and both of them are subject to this Evil. All men in the world are either Sinners or Saints.
That Men are very subj•ct to a Sinfu• Sleeping. Therefore Christ here 〈…〉 so Earnestly Caution His Disciples against it. He does no less than Three times one after another call upon them, Watch! Watch! Watch! Intimating that men are in danger o• Unwatchfulness; of Sinful Sleeping▪ There are but Two sorts of men in the world, and both of them are subject to this Evil. All men in the world are either Sinners or Saints.
1. As for Sinners they are miserable ••eepers: Rom. 13.11. It is high time […] awake out of Sleep. Implying that […] are in a deep Sleep: And herefore the Apostle says, 1 Thes. .6. Let not us Sleep as do others. It […] with a Sinner as it is with a Sleeper […] many respects. Men that are […] do not see, nor hear as those […] are awake do. David came and […] away Saul's Spear, and neither aul nor any of his Servants saw it, because they were all asleep; a deep […] from the Lord was fallen upon […]: