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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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2. The Blessed God […] sometimes […] Holy Ends suffer Satan to Terrify […] own Children with the Fear of Death ▪ The Devil is a malicious and lying Spirit: He will say to his own Children, that they need not be afraid […] Death, that it shall be well with the• after Death: And he will say the direct contrary to the Children of Go• ▪ Even as the False Prophets among […] Jews, that were acted and influenced […] Satan, Ezek▪ 13 23▪ did strength•• the hands of the Wicked, that […] ⟨p. 37⟩should not return from their Evil ways, and did promise Life unto them, and made the hearts of the Righteous sad. So does Satan do; promises Life unto the Wicked, […] those that are in a state of Sin; this he does that so they might not repent and turn from their Evil ways: And in the mean time he makes the Heart of the Righteous sad; he tells them that Death will bring them to Hell. When Satan was let loose upon Job, he did sadly terrify him: Job 7.14. He complains that he was scared with Dreams, and terrified with Night Visions. Satan was in it. And so does he oftentimes deal with the Children of God; he scares them & terrifies them with dark Visions of Death and Hell and Eternal Wrath; and tho' it is but a Dream & they need not fear, yet it is very perplexing to them. And God has very holy ends in permitting Satan thus to buff•• His own Children. It is to humble them & to make them more Prayerful, and more careful to build upon • sure Foundation for Eternity.
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