N01109:180
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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.
Text. 1 Chron. 29.15. pag. 111 DOCT. The Servants of God are very sensible that they are Strangers and S•••ourners on the Earth, and that they have but a Little time to be in this world. Prop. 1, That the Servants of God are Strangers and Sojourners on the Earth, In what respects they are so, pag. 114, 115, 117, 119, 120, 122, 126, 128 ⟨image ?⟩Prop 2, That men have but a little time to be on the Earth, pag 130 Proved, pag, 132, 134, 136 Prop, 3, That the Servants of God are very sensible of this, pag, 139 It is Faith that makes them sensible of it, pag, 142, 144, 146 Use I, Instruct. • This should teach u• Contentation, & to moderate our affections as to all Earthly Enjoyments, p•g▪ 14• Instruct. 2, Hence they all whose Happiness is in Earthly Enjoyments are […] ▪ pag▪ 151 […] We see the Sin and •olly of those who […] themselves as if they were to live here […] ▪ pag, 154 Instruct, 4, Me […] very careful not to misspend their short Time, but to improve it well, pag, 15 Instruct, 5, We should be […] of that World where we must abide fo ever pag, 160 Use II Exhortation: Let the Servant of God make not the Earth but Heav their Home, pag, 163 Some Considerations to Enforce th with directions i order thereunto, pag, ib & 166, 167, 168, 169