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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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It was his Faith […] made him sensible of his being […] a Sojourner in the world as he ⟨p. 142⟩was. Faith in Gods Children hath • Three-fold Good Effect upon them.
It was his Faith 〈…〉 made him sensible of his being 〈…〉 a Sojourner in the world as he ⟨p. 142⟩was. Faith in Gods Children hath • Three-fold Good Effect upon them.
1. It makes them see the Reality an• Excellency of things that are Invisible▪ One has well observed that Earthly minded men are apt to believe nothing but what they see with their Bodily Eyes, and that what is spoken concerning an Invisible World, is […] and not Reality. But to Faith Invis• ble things are as real as those that are Visible▪ Heb. 11.1. Faith is […] Substance of things hoped for, and […] Evidence of things not seen. Things belonging to the Invisible world▪ things that are of an Heavenly Nature, & that are not seen with Bodily Eyes, Faith gives a Substance to them: It makes them Real. The Eye of Faith sees that which the Natural Eye cannot see. Moses by Faith saw Him that is Invisible. That Heavenly World which is the Country the Children of God do belong unto it can't be seen by men here on the Earth. It is a far Country, and the sight of a Mortal Eye cannot reach so ⟨p. 143⟩