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 2: USE II.

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Men should be always in a Prepared•••• for Death. The Motive in the […] is enough, viz. That Death may […] Suddenly. You know not how suddenly, therefore you ought to be •ver prepared for it. There is a natural Disease, viz. the Ephial•es, which we commonly call the […], (from the Gothic word […] •••nifying a Spirit) by reason whereof •any Persons have Dyed in their […]. That very Apostolical man, […] Thomas […] did so▪ None of […] •now▪ but it may be […] to be […] ▪ Suddenly out of the world. […] ⟨p. 104⟩has been the Lot of as Good men […] we are. Eminent Servants of Go• have Dyed by Sudden Death; yea, and many Eminent Ministers of Christ too. I knew an Eminent Minister in London, when Death seized on him, he had only time to speak these words▪ I am going out of the world, God show Mercy to my Family, and to my Congregation. I knew another Eminent Minister in the City of Exeter, who Dyed in the Public Assembly, joining with the People of God in Sing•ing a Psalm; he went to Heaven Singing. There was another that was t have Preached the next day, but wa found Dead in his Chamber, with hi Spectacles in one hand, and his Sermon Notes in the other. Another Eminent man was to have Preached on the Lords Day, he spent the day before in Prayer with Fasting in hi Study, in the Evening complained […] found himself not well, and in […] hours time he was in Heaven. An we have seen such instances among oselves, here in Boston? That Emine

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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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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

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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