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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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THE Apostle in this Context, shows why it was necessary that the Son of God should Assume Humane Nature; Namely, that He might be capable of Suffering and Dying for the Salvation of His People. If He had been ⟨p. 2⟩God only, He could not have suffered. Eternity cannot Dye. Therefore i• was necessary that the Son of God should become the Son of Man. In this with the preceding Verse, he mentions two very Blessed Effects of the Death of Christ.
THE Apostle in this Context, shews why it was necessary that the Son of God should Assume Humane Nature; Namely, that He might be capable of Suffering and Dying for the Salvation of His People. If He had been ⟨p. 2⟩God only, He could not have suff•red. Eternity cannot Dye. Therefore i• was necessary that the Son of God should become the Son of Man. In this with the preceding Verse, he mentions two very Blessed Effects of the Death of Christ.
1. One is, That thereby the Devil is destroyed: He through' Death has destroyed the Dev••. Not that he is destroyed as to his Being, but only as to his Dominion.
1. One is, That thereby the Devil is destroyed: He thro' Death has destroyed the Dev••. Not that he is destroyed as to his Being, but only as to his Dominion.