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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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1. We should be willing to go Home. Should not a Traveller be willing to go home? Why then should no• Gods Children who are Strangers and Sojourners in the Earth, be willing to go to their own Country, when ever •t shall please the Lord, this Year rather than the next Year if God will have it so. Such an Heart was in Old Jacob, Gen. 46▪30. N•w let me Dye, since I have seen thy Face. It becomes a Child of God to speak after that manner, since by Faith I have seen ⟨p. 168⟩Christ, now let me Dye: As good Old Simeon also, when he had seen the Lords Christ, said, Luk. 2.29. Now let me depart in Peace. So the Believer that has by Faith an interest in Christ, it becomes him to say, Now Lord let me depart so soon as ever it shall please thee. It Exposeth our religion to the Censure of the world, when we are loth to change Earth for Heaven. The Turks say that Christians do not believe themselves when they talk of the Glory of Heaven: If they did (say they) why are Christians generally so unwilling to Dye and go to Heaven? Jacob said to Laban, Send me away that I may go my own Place, and to my own Country, Gen. 30.25. And Laban said to him, Thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longest after thy Fathers House, Gen. 31.36. So should the Children of God desire to be gone to their own Country, and long after their Fathers House.
1. We should be willing to go Home. Should not a Traveller be willing to go home? Why then should no• Gods Children who are Strangers and Sojourners in the Earth, be willing to go to their own Countrey, when ever •t shall please the Lord, this Year rather than the next Year if God will have it so. Such an Heart was in Old Iacob,