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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. In that Heaven is their Fathers •ouse. Heaven is compared unto an •ouse: We have an House Eternal in […] Heavens. And it is Gods House. Christ said unto the Disciples, Joh. 4.2. In my Fathers House there •re many Mansions. He is called, •ur Heavenly Father. Heaven is •is Dwelling-place. Now where […] mans Father dwells, that is the Country, that is the Home to which he does belong. Ubi Pater […] Patria. Thus it is as to the Children of God. If it should be asked, whither they are going? The answer must be, the• are going home, they are •oing to their Fathers House, to their •wn Country. And if it be asked •here is that? The answer must be, […] is Heaven; they are going thither •very day.
1. In that Heaven is their Fathers •ouse. Heaven is compared unto an •ouse: We have an House Eternal in 〈…〉 Heavens. And it is Gods House. •hrist said unto the Disciples, Joh. 4.2. In my Fathers House there •re many Mansions. He is called, •ur Heavenly Father. Heaven is •is Dwelling-place. Now where 〈…〉 mans Father dwells, that is the Countrey, that is the Home to which he does belong. Ubi Pater 〈…〉 Patria. Thus it is as to the Children of God. If it should be asked, whither they are going? The answer must be, the• are going home, they are oing to their Fathers House, to their wn Countrey. And if it be asked here is that? The answer must be, is Heaven; they are going thither very day.