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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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II. As for the Children of God, the Exhortation to you is, Live above the Fear of Death. It is true this Perfection is not attained by all Gods Children. Some of them are too much afraid of Death, as has been showed; but they are more afraid than hurt. And should therefore Chide themselves out of those Fears: As one of the Ancients did, saying, Egredere ⟨p. 52⟩anima egredere, quid times. O […] Soul, why art thou afraid to go out […] my Body, go forth, and fear no• ▪ And many times when they come […] Dye the fear of Death vanishes awa• ▪ I remember a Pious, Praying Hol• Woman who Died many Years ag• ▪ was sorely afraid of Death, especial•• of the pains & pangs of it that the• would be terrible, and she was Exercised with fears concerning her ow• future happiness, but when Death came she hardly felt any pain, & […] last words she spake were these, […] has not seen, nor has it entered into […] Heart of man to conceive the things […] God has prepared▪ And so she Dye• ▪ Well then be not afraid, be not […] down with the fear of Death. An• in Exhorting you to this, I do no• Exhort you to a Perfection that is no• attainable. There have been Servan•• of the Lord, who have been far fro• being afraid of Death. We have instances in the Scripture of it. Aaron when God told him he should go […] Mount Hor, and Dye there, he wer• ⟨p. 53⟩