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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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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.
1 Chron. XXIX.xv. […] we are Strangers before thee, and Sojourners, as were all our Fathers: Our Days on the Earth are […] Shadow, and there is none abiding.
1 Chron. XXIX.xv. 〈…〉 we are Strangers before thee, and Sojourners, as were all our Fathers: Our Dayes on the Earth are 〈…〉 Shadow, and there is none abiding•.
IN this Chapter we have an account of a very Liberal Collection which David and the Princes of Israel made toward• the Building of the Temple, with Davids solemn ⟨p. 112⟩Thanksgiving on that occasion. […] the preceding Verse he shows that there was great reason for that Liberality; in-as-much as all the Estate and Riches Enjoyed by them, came from God: Of thine own (said he) we have given to thee. Although' David and […] Princes gave many Thousands […] Pounds for the promoting of […] work, yet they gave not one Penny, but what God had given to them. […] God gives to us all that we Enjoy, it is but reason that we should make […] return of some part of it to Him again. In this Verse there is another reason mentioned why it was very meet for them thus to dispose of some part of their Estate, viz. in that that they were Strangers and Sojourners on the Earth, as (said he) all our Fathers were. Their Fathers, Abraham, Isaac & Jacob were Strangers even before Men in the Land of Canaan, which is called the Land of their Pilgrimage wherein they were Strangers,