Meditations on death. Delivered in several sermons, wherein is showedMeditations on death. Delivered in several sermons, wherein is shewed

Name: Meditations on death. Delivered in several sermons, wherein is showed
Author: Increase Mather

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]

Increase Mather 1639–1723printed by Timothy Green, 1707

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Meditations ON DEATH, And on the Heavenly-Country Which Believers… › DOCTRINE. The Servants of God are very sensible that they are Stran… › Proposition 3 › Application 2: USE II. For EXHORTATION.Meditations ON DEATH, And on the Heavenly-Countrey Which Believers… › DOCTRINE. The Servants of God are very sensible that they are Stran… › Proposition 3 › Application 2: USE II. For EXHORTATION.

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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; Prov. 8.18. Durable Riches. Earthly Riches are not Durable; but Heavenly Riches are a Substance that will endure to Eternity. There are Glorious Riches to be found in Heaven For JESUS CHRIST is there, who is an Inestimable and Inexhaustible Treasure. Does not the ⟨p. 167⟩scripture speak of the Unsearchable •iches of Christ? In Heaven the Infinitely Glorious GOD is to be Enjoyed▪ […] Him we have an infinite Treasure. •ea▪ all Good at once to satiate our •ouls: He is the Portion of His Children, and a greater Portion cannot be▪ David says, God is my Portion for ever. When Abraham refused the Riches of •he King of Sodom, God said to him, Gen. 15.1. I am thy Exceeding Great Reward: Thou shalt have Riches enough in me. Now if we would make Heaven and not Earth our Home.

Consider 2. H•w Desi•able 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; Prov. 8.18

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Meditations on death. Delivered in several sermons, wherein is showedMeditations on death. Delivered in several sermons, wherein is shewed

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THE Contents.

MEDITATIONS on the Believers being Delivered from […] of Death.

MEDITATIONS on the Believers being Delivered from 〈…〉 of Death.

MEDITATIONS on Sudden Death, Occasioned by Diverse late Sudden Deaths in B•st•n, and in several other Towns in New-England.

MEDITATIONS on the Brevity of mans Life on Earth, also Meditations on the Heavenly Country which Believers go into at the Hour of Death.

MEDITATIONS on the Brevity of mans Life on Earth, also Meditations on the Heavenly Countrey which Believers go into at the Hour of Death.

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