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Meditations on the glory of the heavenly world. I. On the happiness of the…
Meditations on the glory of the heavenly world. I. On the happiness of the soul of believers, at the instant of their separation from their bodies. II. On the glory of the bodies of God's children, in the resurrection world, when they shall be as the angels of heaven. III. On the glory of both soul and body in the heaven of heavens, after the day of judgment, to all eternity. / By Increase Mather, D.D. ; [Six lines of quotations]
Boston in N.E. printed: : Sold by Benjamin Eliot, at his shop in King Street., 1711
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The Glorified SOULS OF Just Men Have attained a Blessed Perfection. › Proposition 2: PROPOSITION II.
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To the same purpose Peter speaks, ⟨p. 58⟩2 Pet. 1. 13. As long as I am, h. e. as long as my Soul is; for the Soul is the Man, in this Tabernacle. The Tabernacle may be pulled down, and yet the Inhabitant who has dwelt in it live still. In Ver. 14. He speaks of putting off the Tabernacle of his Body. The Soul is clothed with the Body. A Godly man has no more cause to be afraid of Dying, than he would be afraid of putting off his Clothes & going to Rest. The same Apostle, in ver. 15. calls his Death, his Decease; In the Original, it is my Exodus When Believers Die, they do as the Children of Israel did, go out of Egypt into a Land flowing with Milk and Honey: They go to Heaven. It is said of Papists, that they Blaspheme (Idolatry is called Blasphemy) them that dwell in Heaven, Rev. 13. 6. Because they Worship Saints departed. At their Departure they are with Christ, Phil. 1. 23. Their Souls are Under the Altar, Rev 6. 9. Christ is the Altar. The Soul being a spiritual substance, and not of the same Nature with the Body, is capable of subsisting by it self out of the Body: Although' ⟨p. 59⟩while it is Embodied, it useth to act by Bodily Organs; nevertheless, it can act without them; and sometimes has done so. In Ecstasies and Trances, the Soul is very active when the Body is senseless, and acts not at all. Peter was in a Trance, & then he had marvellous Visions. Act. 10. 10. A Trance is when all the Bodily Senses are bound, but the soul is at liberty. The Souls of men may Converse with GOD, or with Angels, when their Bodies are cast into a deep sleep. Thus it has been in Divine Dreams: Job 33. 15. God speaks to Men in a Dream, in the Vision of the Night, when deep Sleep falls upon them. Of this Abraham had Experience, Gen. 15. 12. And the Prophet Daniel, Chap. 10. Ver. 9. By these things it is manifest, that the Soul does not wholly depend on the Body as to its Operation; and if not as to its Operation, then not as to its Existence. The Soul when separated from the Body, has not (nor have Angels) bodily Eyes or Ears; nevertheless, it has that which is Analogous thereunto, so that it can see and hear. The Apostle, when his Soul for