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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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PROPOSITION III.
The Fear of Death does cause Bondage. Especially the Fear of the Second Death does so. Fear is a servile thing. Hence Rom 8.15. the Apostle speaks of a spirit of Bondage unto Fear. And […] may say of this Fear as 'tis said concerning the Sinai Covenant, Gal. • 24. It gendereth to Bondage. They […] are under the Covenant of works, […] Covenant does bind them over […] Death, until they have an interest […] the Covenant of the Gospel, which […] declare that Believers are delivered from that Bondage, from that Fear. Of Believers only it is said, •hat they are not come to Mount Sinai, •o Blackness and Darkness and Tempest, Heb. 12.18. Several things illustrate the Truth before us.
The Fear of Death does cause Bondage. Especially the Fear of the Second Death does so. Fear is a servile thing. Hence Rom 8.15. the Apostle speaks of a spirit of Bondage unto Fear. And 〈…〉 may say of this Fear as 'tis said •oncerning the Sinai Covenant, Gal. • 24. It gendreth to Bondage. They 〈…〉 are under the Covenant of works, 〈…〉 Covenant does bind them over 〈…〉 Death, until they have an interest 〈…〉 the Covenant of the Gospel, which 〈…〉 declare that Believers are deli•ered from that Bondage, from that Fear. Of Believers only it is said, •hat they are not come to Mount Sinai, •o Blackness and Darkness and Tempest,