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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 3. That Delays in this matter are very Dangerous. Dangerous lest there be never any true Repentance: Dangerous because Death may come Suddenly, and then Repentance will be too late. Repentance is necessary to Salvation: Except you Repent you shall Perish ▪ says Christ: But if a man don't Repent before Death, he cannot Repent at all▪ Psal. 115 17 The Dead cannot Praise thee. As for their Bodies they cannot speak a word; and for the Soul to Pray and Cry after Death, will signify nothing. ⟨p. 81⟩The Lord will then say, You should •ave Repented sooner, then it had •een happy for you. […] was Good Counsel that one gave to his Scholar, To be sure to Repent One day before he Dyed. If so, he must do it immediately; for he did not know but the •ext day he might be Dead.
Consider 3. That Delayes in this matter are very Dangerous. Dangerous lest there be never any true Repentance: Dangerous because Death may come Suddenly, and then Repentance will be too late. Repentance is necessary to Salvation: Except you Repent you shall Perish ▪ sayes Christ: But if a man don't Repent before Death, he cannot Repent at all▪ Psal. 115 17 The Dead cannot Praise thee. As for their Bodies they cannot speak a word; and for the Soul to Pray and Cry after Death, will signify nothing. ⟨p. 81⟩The Lord will then say, You should •ave Repented sooner, then it had •een happy for you. 〈…〉 was Good Counsel that one gave to his Scholar, To be sure to Repent One day before he Dyed. If so, he must do it immediately; for he did not know but the •ext day he might be Dead.