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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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Inf. III. The Souls of Men and Women who die in their Sins, are after the death of their Bodies very Miserable. What have they to Comfort them? Their Earthly Comforts go not with them to another World. They have no Interest in them after their Souls are in a state of Separation from their bodies. Luk. 12. 20. This night thy Soul shall be required of thee, then whose shall those things be that thou hast provided? What becomes of the Sinners Soul when his body dies? Whither does it go? To what Company? To what Place? His Soul goes not to an innumerable company ⟨p. 100⟩of holy Angels, but to a company of Devils. It was a dismal word which the Devil spoke to Saul, when he said to him, To morrow thou shalt be with me, 1 Sam. 28. 19. The Sinner that dies to day, to morrow his Soul will be with Devils: his soul does not go to be with the spirits of Just men made perfect; but to the souls of these Wicked men, who have died and gone to Hell before him. When a wicked man dies, his soul goes to be with the soul of Gain, and of Pharaoh, and of Judas; with other Sons of Perdition. His departed soul is carried to a woeful Prison. It is said of the Sinners of the Old Ungodly world, that their Spirits, their immortal Souls are in Prison, 1 Pet. 3. 19. Those horrid Giants which Lived before the Flood, their souls are in Hell; and when Ungodly men die, their souls go to remain with them until the Great Day of Judgment. Prov. 21. 16. The man that wanders out of the way of Understanding, shall remain in the Congregation of the Dead. In the Original it is, the Congregations of […], viz. of the Giants, who were ⟨p. 101⟩Drowned and Damned, when their Foundation was Overflown with a Flood. These are represented in the Scripture as being in Misery, and sighing because of their Misery. Those words in Job 26. 5. which are translated, Dead things are formed under the water: A Learned and Great Expositor reads, The Giants Sigh under the water; denoting the Misery of those wicked men, who Lived before and were Destroyed by the Flood; and so of all other sinners after their Bodies are Dead. The design of the Parable of Dives & Lazarus, is to declare the Misery which Dead and Damned sinners are in before the Day of Judgment. While Dives lay Buried, he was in a place of Torment; and whilst his Brethren were yet Living on the Earth, and had the means of Grace vouchsafed to them;