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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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PROPOSITION I.
That the Servants of God are Strangers and Sojourners on the Earth.
For,
1. Not the Earth, but Heaven is the Country they belong unto. And that indeed is the difference between the Servants of God and other men in the world. All other men are but Sojourners on the Earth; they are not at their long Home. But they can't say, that Heaven is their Country to which they do belong, and to which they are going. But this is that which the Children of God may truly say. Their Hearts are there, their Treasure is there, and all their Desires centre there▪ 'Tis said of the holy ⟨p. 115⟩••tria•ks, Heb. 11.16. They sought a ••tter Country, that is an Heavenly one. •nd this is Evident from Several things.