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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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If a man has been •ich, and becomes Poor, he is more miserable than if he had never had •uch Riches: So that they are vanity •nd vexation. But which is infinitely ⟨p. 166⟩worse, this world is full of Sin; and that has made it like Hell. The terrible Judgment of God for the Sins of men, has suffered Satan to be the Prince of this world. He is not so by the Grace of God, but by the Wrath of God. The Devils are the Rulers of the Darkness of this world. And shall Gods Children make such a dark World their Home?
If a man has been •ich, and becomes Poor, he is more •iserable than if he had never had •uch Riches: So that they are vanity •nd vexation. But which is infinitely ⟨p. 166⟩worse, this world is full of Sin; and that has made it like Hell. The terrible Judgment of God for the Sins of men, has suffered Satan to be the Prince of this world. He is not so by the Grace of God, but by the Wrath of God. The Devils are the Rulers of the Darkness of this world. And shall Gods Children make such a dark World their Home?
Consider 2. H•w Desirable a Place that World is which Believers are going unto. Certainly when Christians are loth to leave this world, they do not meditate on Heaven so much as they should do, where there is nothing but what is good, and every thing that is good. Are Riches desirable▪ In Heaven & there only, are the true Riches to be found;