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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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Meditations ON Sudden Death.
Occasioned by several Late Sudden Deaths in Boston, as well as in several other Towns in New-England
Mark XIII.xxxvi. •est Coming Suddenly, He find you Sleeping.
IN the Five Last Verses of this Chapter, we hear the Lord Jesus Christ Exciting and Exhorting His Disciples unto constant watchfulness; and this He does three ••mes over. It is a Duty of Universal Concernment. Christ therefore includes His Discourse with saying, •hat I say to you, I say to all, Watch ▪ ⟨p. 58⟩Not only you that are now present […] hear me, but all others that may […] of it; let them Watch. The Moti•• from whence this Exhortation is urge• is, because men are uncertain & ignorant of the time of the Lords Coming ver. 33. You know not when is the […] therefore Watch and Pray. The Lor knows the time, but you know it no This is Illustrated by a Parable, v. 3 […] a Master of an House taking […] ourney into a far Country, and appointing to Each of His Servants the several Employments; and commanded the Porter to Watch: To wat that Thieves did not break into […] House; to watch that none of […] Servants did desert their Masters Seice. Now for the meaning of thi Christ is the Master of the House, […] Church on Earth is His House: Hven is a far Country, into which […] is gone, & will return. In the […] time, He expects that His Servants ligently attend the work He calls […] to; and that they should not […] themselves in Sleep and Sloth. […]