Meditations on death. Delivered in several sermons, wherein is showedMeditations on death. Delivered in several sermons, wherein is shewed

Name: Meditations on death. Delivered in several sermons, wherein is showed
Author: Increase Mather

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]

Increase Mather 1639–1723printed by Timothy Green, 1707

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Meditations ON Death: And on the Believers Deliverance from the Fea… › DOCTRINE. That the Children of God are Delivered from that Bondage,… › Proposition 4 › USE.

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(said she) Am I Dying▪ Oh! Then Bless the Lord O my […] all that is within me Bless His […] Name. Death is more welcome […] we, than all the Riches of this […] would be. So then this Perfect••• […] attainable. And that we may […] it▪

(said she) Am I Dying▪ Oh! Then Bless the Lord O my 〈…〉 all that is within me Bless His 〈…〉 Name. Death is more welcome 〈…〉 we, than all the Riches of this 〈…〉 would be. So then this Perfect••• 〈…〉 attainable. And that we may 〈…〉 it▪

:68p. 54–55¶1

1. We should familiarize Death […] daily thoughts of it. We read in […] Gospel concerning Joseph of […], that he had his Sepulchre […] his Garden: If he did but step i• his Garden, he would be thinki•• of Death, Joh. 19.41. That Exemplary Christian Mr. Ignatius Jordan if he did but step out on any oc•••sion into the City, would frequent•• say, I am going into the Town […] some Business, whether I shall […] into my House again alive I do […] know. How many occasions […] we to think of Death? In my […], they are strange persons […] ⟨p. 55⟩

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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 Sudden Death.

Occasioned by several Late Sudden Deaths in Boston, as well as in several other Towns in New-England

DOCTRINE. Considering that Death may co•• upon Men Suddenly, they should […] Watchful and Careful lest the […] then find them Sleeping.

DOCTRINE. Considering that Death may co•• upon Men Suddenly, they should 〈…〉 Watchful and Careful lest the 〈…〉 then find them Sleeping.

PROPOSITION I.

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