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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 IV.
That although' the Children of God are some of them subject unto the Fear of Death, they have no just cause to be so. Two Particulars are contained in the Proposition now before us.
That altho' the Children of God are some of them subject unto the Fear of Death, they have no just cause to be so. Two Particulars are contained in the Proposition now before us.
1. That Gods Children are some of them subject unto Fear, by reason of Death. We find Examples of it in Scripture: Hezekiah was an Excellent Holy man, yet when the Prophet Isaiah came to him, and told him he should set his House in order, for (said he) thou shalt Dye and not Live, Isa. 38.3. Hezekiah wept sore. The tidings of his ⟨p. 34⟩Death caused him to weep sore. […] man was a very Pious man, yet […] says, Psal. 88.3. My Soul is full […] Trouble; my Life draws nigh unto […] Gravepunc; The apprehension of his be••ing near unto the Grave, was a trouble to his Soul. And although' Davi• when he wrote the Twenty Thin Psalm was above the fear of Death as in the fourth Verse, I will not fea although' I walk in the valley of the shadow of Death: Yet at other times the apprehensions of Death was a terror […] him;