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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. As for Believers that walk with •od, they have no just cause to fear Death. •nd that is intended here in the Text, •hen it is said, We are delivered from […] •ear of Death. Not that Believers […] all of them delivered from fearing Death, but from having any just […] to fear it. They ought not to […] it.
2. As for Believers that walk with •od, they have no just cause to fear Death. •nd that is intended here in the Text, •hen it is said, We are delivered from 〈…〉 •ear of Death. Not that Believers 〈…〉 all of them delivered from fear••g Death, but from having any just 〈…〉 to fear it. They ought not to 〈…〉 it.
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1. Death cannot be in the least Hurtful […] them▪ It is a Serpent that has no […] in it: 1 Cor. 15.55. O Death, •here is thy Sting? O Grave, where is […] Victory? Death, hast thou a Sting? here is it? Hast thou a Victory? Where is thy Victory? Thou hast no Victory over us, but we over thee. Thanks be to God, that giveth us the ctory, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Jesus Christ by His Death, has been he Death of Death; and He therefore says,