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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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Consider 1. That this is a matter of […] Greatest Importance that can be▪ ⟨p. 106⟩Nothing of greater Moment can b• laid before you. If a man be no• Prepared and if Death snatch him away Suddenly, there is no help for him. As the Tree falls so it lies; as Death finds him so must he be for ever. Eternity depends on a good Preparation for a Dying hour: For at that Moment when a man dieth when his immortal Soul goes out of his Body, it Launcheth into Eternity. Think of that you that often see Ships Launched: Think, Ere long this Immortal Soul of mine must Launch out into the Sea that has neither Banks nor Bottom! It must Launch out into the infinite Ocean of Eternity. But then if Death find a man well Prepared, Blessed is he that ever he was Born into the world; he shall go into Everlasting Habitations of Glory. Death will minister to hi• an Entrance into the Everlasting Kingdom of our Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ. But on the other hand, If Death come Suddenly and find him Unprepared, then he goes into a […] ⟨p. 107⟩[…] Eternity. Dives Dyed and was •uried, and the next thing we hear of •im is, Being in Hell he Cried out, I am […] a place of Torment! Then how infinitely are poor Mortals concerned […] Prepare for Death, that they may ••cape a Second Death, and be ready […] a Blessed Eternity. 'Twas well ••oken by one of the Ancients, who […], Men should not be careful so •uch as to the time & manner of their Death, whether they Dye a Lingering […] a Sudden Death, whether a Natu••• or a Violent Death, as what will ••come of them after Death, where ••eir immortal Souls shall be disposed […] when they Dye, and what shall be ••eir Condition in another World to […] Eternity.