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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 4: PROPOSITION IV.
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PROPOSITION IV.
The Spirits of Just men are made Perfect at the Instant when their Bodies Dy. It has been showed under the former Proposition, that the Souls of Believes are made perfect whilst they are in their separate state; we proceed now to show that they are so Immediately at the hour of Death. They ⟨p. 85⟩shall not wait a long time for their Blessedness. When once the Union between soul and body is dissolved, they are happy. Although' they shall not receive their full Reward before the Resurrection; nevertheless, they shall receive a blessed part of it before that. God said to Abraham, I am thy Shield, and thy exceeding great Reward, Gen. 15. 1. Thy Shield to protect thee in this Life; and thy Reward in the Life to come at the end of this Life. When once a mans Work is done, then cometh his Reward. His work is finished when he ceaseth to be on the Earth, and therefore then comes the Reward of Glory: Joh. 17. 4, 5. I have Glorified thee on the Earth, I have finished the Work thou gavest me to do; now Glorify me. There are many Scriptures which intimate, that the separate Souls of Believers are immediately Happy upon the Death of their Bodies: Luk. 16. 9. That when you sail, they may receive you into Everlasting Habitations. Ceasing to be in this World, is Failing; when also all Earthly Enjoyments fail. Tis then that Just men are received into the Everlasting ⟨p. 86⟩Habitations prepared for them. They go immediately to the Heavenly Paradise. Christ said to the Penitent on the Cross, This Day thou shalt be with me in Paradise,