N01109:84
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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And thus it was with the Philistines when they were in Demons Temple, and very merry, ma•ing themselves sport there, the House •ell and Three Thousand that were […] the Roof, besides those that were •n the House were all killed. Not […] Years since, when the Earth•••kes were in Sicily, in one Town three Hundred persons with the Priest ••ying Mass, were crushed to Death […] the fall of the Church upon them▪ •nd in another Town above a Thousand men and women were killed •hilest they were at Divine Service, […] the Houses falling on them. Sometimes ⟨p. 64⟩Death seizes on men at the very […] when they are Worshipping Go• ▪ It was so with Eutichus, when amo•• the Lords People hearing a Serm•• falling a sleep he fell down from […] high Loft and was taken up Dead. […] Galileans, Luk 13.1. when they […] Worshipping God they were Kill•• suddenly. Pilate sent Soldiers […] them that mingled their Blood […] their Sacrifices. That is supposed […] be the reason of the quarrel betwe•• […] was on the Governor of Judea, and Herod ▪ Galilee ▪ yet he comes into Herod's Jurisdiction, and kills the Galileans. Ho• many have there been in the wor•• Hundreds of Thousands that hav• Dyed suddenly by the Sword? Whe• there was a Civil War in the […] of Israel, between the Tribe of B•••jamin and the other Tribes, in […] day fell by the Sword Twenty […] Thousand men; in another day Eiteen Thousand men: and after […] on another day, of the Benjamites […] fell Dead Twenty Five Thousand […]