Meditations on death. Delivered in several sermons, wherein is showedMeditations on death. Delivered in several sermons, wherein is shewed

Name: Meditations on death. Delivered in several sermons, wherein is showed
Author: Increase Mather

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]

Increase Mather 1639–1723printed by Timothy Green, 1707

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Meditations ON Sudden Death. › DOCTRINE. Considering that Death may co•• upon Men Suddenly, they s… › Proposition 4 › Application 1: USE I.

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1. They are in Danger by Spiritual Enemies. ⟨p. 96⟩Satan their great Adversary is always Wakeful and Watchful […] surprise them, and therefore they […] need to be always awake; 1 Pet. 5▪8. Be Vigilant, for your Adversary […] Devil goes about like a Roaring Lion, seeking whom he may devour. Yo• have a watchful Enemy, therefore […] watchful. It is said of the Lion tha• he seldom Sleeps: that no Animal live• with so little Sleep as he does. Bu• to be sure, the Lion of Hell never Sleeps at all. Christians then can• fall asleep but he will be upon the• presently, and get them into his Cruel snare. They cannot Sleep, but he will observe it, and fall upon them speedily. Watch that you enter not into Temptation. And the World i• an Enemy which Christians are always Endangered by. As for the Men of the world, they watch the servants of God as the Wolf the Sheep: Mat. 10.16. I send you as Sheep among Wolves. The Prophet Jeremiah complains, that there were those that watched for his Halting. There are men in the world ⟨p. 97⟩[…] very wicked, as that they will do […] they can to cause a Professor of religion to sin, that so they may have something to blemish him, and his profession. The Ungodly Samaritans •ould fain have brought Nehemiah to […] an ill thing, that they might have […] to Reproach him, Neh. 6.13. •he Things of the world also have […] in them: Therefore be watchful: 1 Tim. 6.9

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Meditations on death. Delivered in several sermons, wherein is showedMeditations on death. Delivered in several sermons, wherein is shewed

USE II.

Meditations ON DEATH, And on the Heavenly-Country Which Believers go into at the Hour of Death.

Meditations ON DEATH, And on the Heavenly-Countrey Which Believers go into at the Hour of Death.

DOCTRINE. The Servants of God are very sensible that they are Strangers and Sojourners on the Earth, and that they have but a Little Time to be in this world.

PROPOSITION I.

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