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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. 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, Hos. 13.14 I will Ransom ⟨p. 42⟩them from Death; […] from the Gra•e: O Death, I will […] plague; O Grave, I will be thy […]. Christ has by His Death […] His Children out of the […] him that has the Power of […] out of the hands of the Devil, […] he can't lay a claim to them, he […] •ay a finger on them; he would […] fingering their Souls when […] they are out of their Body, but […] shall. As the Destroying […] might not touch any of the […] of Israel ▪ when the •lood of […] Paschal Lamb was sprinkled on […] Houses, so they that have the […] of Christ sprinkled on their Souls […] ••eserved in Jesus Christ, even as […] Children of Israel were preserved […] the Destroying Angel, Jude 1. […] Christ has both by His Death and […] Almighty Power, rescued […] of the J•ws of that […] you may see a Type, […] ▪ There was a Poor Lamb […] the Paws of a Lyon, […] and delivered the […] ⟨p. 43⟩destroyed the Lion. So that Lion that would devour the Children of God, Jesus Christ has destroyed him and delivered His Lambs. Yea, Christ hath saved them from that which makes Death formidable, namely, the Second Death. He says of the Believer, he shall not be hurt by the Second Death,