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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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4. There is one thing more that is to […] of the Children of God a cause of •heir being afraid of Death, and it is the ••ddest cause that can be; they have given ⟨p. 40⟩way to Temptations, and have […] Souls within them. Guilt […] Fear. When Adam had sinned, he […] afraid and hid himself, and said […] God, I heard thy voice, and was afra•• ▪ The Guilt of Sin makes men afraid […] look the Dreadful God in the […] ▪ A man that has the Guilt of Sin […] his Soul, is very unfit to Dye; or […] draw near to God, as men do […] they Dye: Heb. 10.22. Let us […] near with a full assurance of […] having our Hearts sprinkled from an […] Conscience. If there is an […] Conscience, then there is Fear: […] such a one knows not how to […] nigh to God. That may be the […] of a true Believer; he may fall […] some great Sin, and then the thoug•• of Death must needs be terrible to hi• until he has renewed his Repentan•• and Faith in the Blood of Christ. […] it was with David in that matter […] Uriah the Hittite; he was lamenta••• Estranged from God. If Sickness […] then come on him, and Death had appeared to him whilst he lay […] ⟨p. 41⟩•he guilt of those heinous sins, he must •eeds have trembled at the sight of it. Thus we see that Gods Children are ••me of them afraid of Death. But,
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