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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 III.
The Servants of God are very Sensible of this. They are sensible that […] is not their Home: That there •s another Country, and indeed another World that they are hastening •nto▪ They Esteem Heaven and not […] as their Country. And therefore they do on all occasions make a •ree open Confession of it. They are •ot (as they have no cause to be) •shamed of their Country. It is said of the Patriarchs, that they Confessed they were Strangers & Pilgrims on the Earth, Heb. 11▪13. Abraham made that Confession ⟨p. 140⟩before the Children of Heat, Gen· 23.4. And Jacob made that Confession before King Pharaoh and all his Courtiers, Gen. 47 9 The Years of my Pilgrimage: I have not attained to the Years of my Fathers in their Pilgrimage. I (says he) and my Fathers before me, Abraham and Isaac were Pilgrims here on the Earth, confessing their being bound for another Country. And David did often make this Confession: Not only in the Scripture now under our Consideration; but in Psal. 39 12. I am a Stranger and a Sojourner, as all my Fathers were▪ And, Psal. 119 64. Thy Statutes have been my Song in the House of my Pilgrimage. He did not look on this world as his Home, but only as the House of his Pilgrimage. And therefore the Servants of God are very sensible that they have but a little Time to be in this world. Thus Job,