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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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Instruct. I. This should teach us Contentation, and to Moderate our •ff•ctions […] to all Earthly Enjoyments: Heb. 13.• ▪ Let your Conversation be without ⟨p. 148⟩Covetousness, and be Content with such things as you have. The Consideration of the Vanity of the things here below, and that we are to be here bu• a little time, should make us Conten• if we have not much of this world. A Traveller if he has but enough to bea• his Charges till •e come home, that satisfies him. The Children of God are in a Journey to their own Country, and if they have but enough to support them until they come to their Journey's end, they should rest satisfied: And Food and Raiment is Enough. If they have that they ought to be Content. So says the Apostle, 1 Tim. 6.8 If we have Food and Raiment, let us therewith be Content. For we can carry nothing away with us. […] a man have never so much of this world, he can't carry one Penny, one Farthing with him into the othe• World. And if he could, it wou•d be •f no use to him there. As a Martyr said, I am going to a Country where Money bears no Mastery: To Heaven where Gold and Silver signifies nothing. ⟨p. 149⟩Are you the Children of God? Then what if you have but a little of this world, be not Discontented; •ou will have Riches enough when •ou get home to your own Country. There you will enjoy no less Riches •han that of a Kingdom▪ Jam 2.5. God has Chosen this Poor of the world, ich in Faith, Heirs of a Kingdom. Then […] you have but little here below, what matters it; when you have a Kingdom reserved for you in the Country whither you are going. It was […] to the Sons of Jacob, Regard not our Stuff, for the good of all the Land of Egypt is yours,