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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. There is Nature in them as well […] in other men: Heb. 2▪14. The Children are partakers of Flesh and Blood. The Children of God are Flesh and Bloo• as well as other men. Now N•tu•• shrinks at Death. Tho' they hav• Grace in them▪ which does sometime• carry them above the fear of Death▪ ⟨p. 35⟩yet th•y have Nature in them too, and that shrinks at it. Nature shrinks at the thoughts of the Souls being separated fr•m the Body: Therefore says the Apostle, 2 Cor. 5.4 Not that we would be Unclothed: Not that we desire to have our Souls separated from our Bodies. It would be contrary to Na•u•e to desire Death for it self: But that Mortality might be •wal•••ed […] in Li•e: That our Souls might be United to an immortal Body. Especially there are some kinds of Death, which Nature is averse from. As to Dye by the hand of an Enemy, Nature shrinks at that: Therefore when the Prophet Samuel was directed to go and anoint David to be King, he said, 1 Sam. 16.2