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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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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 […]: 1 Sam. 20.12. So it is with ••nners, their Spiritual senses are […]: Rom. 11.8. The Lord has •iven them the spirit of Slumber; they […] Eyes and see not; Ears and hear […]. A man that is asleep ceaseth […] work: So does the Sinner as to •orks of a Spiritual Nature; Tit. 1.•1. They are to every Good work […]. They are no more able to do […] Good work, than one that is asleep […] able to attend the work of his […]. Men that are asleep are very ⟨p. 86⟩subject to vain Imaginations; to vai• and foolish Dreams. A poor man […] his Sleep may dream he is vastly rich▪ may dream of Golden Mountain• ▪ Thus it is with Sinners, they are poo• and miserable, and yet dream tha• they are rich: Rev. 3 17