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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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That sometimes Death comes on men •ery Suddenly. It has ever been so in •ll Ages of the world; therefore if •f it be so in our Days, we need not wonder at it: Numb. 6.9. If a man Dye very Suddenly. Implying that men […] Dye so. Death does often overtake them when they no more think •f it than the Fishes of the Net, or the Bird of the Snare in which it is taken: Eccl. 9▪ 12. Man knows not his time; but […] the Fishes are taken in an Evil Net, •nd the Bird in the Snare, so are the Sons •f men Snared in all Evil time, when it •alleth Suddenly upon them. It is true, •hat Death does sometimes give warning of its approaches, by lingering ••ckness, by bodily Pains, by decays ••rough Age; but it is not always so: […]. 21.13▪ They go down to the Grave […] Moment. Ver. 23. One Dyes in his […] strength, being wholly at Ease. And •••etimes when Sickness overtakes […], it makes quick work of them: It ⟨p. 62⟩uses to be so when God visits a People with the •l•gue. As in Egy•• ▪ Psal. 78 50. God gave their Lives […] to the Pestilence; and then at midnight they were struck Dead in a Moment. Thus in Davids time, 2 Sa• ▪ 24.15. Tis said, that from the morning […] the time apnted: which is supposed to intend the Evening Sacrifice the dyed by the Plague Seventy Thousand Men, in (as some compute it) bout Twelve Hours time. Sometime yea oftentimes, men are subject […] Death without any Sickness at […] Some accident not thought of puts […] end to their days. It may be an unexpected fall brings sudden Death o them. As it was with Eli, he […] from his Seat, and that fall killed him Sometimes a fall from an House exposeth to Sudden Death. God thefore Commanded the Children of Irael that when they built an Hou