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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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Consider 1. That for any to […] that Repentance which is necessary […] order to being Prepared for Death, […] a great Provocation to God. Delays provoke the Lord Exceedingly. For they are against His Express Commandment, who does require men not only •o Repent, but to do it Now: Jer. 25.• ▪ Turn you Now from your Evil ways. Eccl. 12.1. Remember Now thy Creator. And who then is it that says, not •ow but hereafter? Another▪ time will do as well as now. God says▪ Heb. •.7. To Day if you will hear His Voice, •arden not your Hearts. But who is▪ […] •hat says to you, Harden thy heart to •ay; To-morrow will be soon enough […] Repent? Certainly it is the […] that does suggest such things to […] Sinners. Now then it must needs ⟨p. 78⟩infinitely provoke God when Sinner• will hearken to the Devil, rather than to Him. The Language of thy […] is, That for the present the service o• the Devil is better than the service o• God. What horrible Blasphemy woul• it be, if any man should speak such word, as to say the service of the Devil is preferable to the service […] God? And yet every Sinner that delays his Repentance does Practicall• say so.
Consider 1. That for any to 〈…〉 that Repentance which is necessary 〈…〉 order to being Prepared for Death, a great Provocation to God. Delayes provoke the Lord Exceedingly. For they are against His Express Commandment, who does require men not only o Repent, but to do it Now: