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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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Oh! Let Christless Sinners be Awa•••ned to make sure of an Interest in Chri•• that so they may be delivered from […] in Bondage through the Fear of […] Remember you are in danger Death continually. Yea, Young […] are so. An Old Man sees Death […] his Face, but a Young Mans […] is a deceitful Enemy to him, it is […] his Back, and knocks him […] ⟨p. 27⟩•nto the Grave ere ever he thinks of •t. The Jews have a Proverb among them, That there are Skulls of all sizes in Golgotha: That is, there are Persons of all sizes in the Grave; the Small as well as the Great are there. No m•n knows how, or which way Death will come upon him. Sometimes it is by sudden Strokes that they little think of. Some by Storms and Tempests •e carried into Eternity. Sea-faring men above others had need make sure of an interest in Christ, considering what dangers they pass through. Be […] known to you, that if Death come •n you before you have made sure of •n interest in Christ, it had been better for you never to have been Born: For none b•t Christ can deliver from De•th and the Fear of it. No one Else can deliver from the Curse of the first Death, none Else can deliver from the Second Death. It is He that •a•eth fr•m Wrath. The Second Death […] called W•ath, being the terrible Effect of the Wrath of God; and con••sting chiefly in the Impressions of