Meditations on the glory of the heavenly world. I. On the happiness of the…

Name: Meditations on the glory of the heavenly world. I. On the happiness of the…
Author: Increase Mather

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]

Increase Mather 1639–1723Boston in N.E. printed: : Sold by Benjamin Eliot, at his shop in King Street., 1711

[2], v, [1], 276, [4] p. ; 16 cm. (8vo) · 54k words · Evans 1516

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IN THE Resurrection World, THE Children of God Shall be as the Ange… › Proposition 3: PROPOSITION III.

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Answ. [1.] In that they shall then very much resemble the blessed God as the Angels of Heaven do. Therefore they are called, The Sons of God, Job. 38. 7. And the Name of Gods is given to them. Psal. 97. 7. Worship him all ye Gods, that is to say, All ye Angels; so does the Apostle interpret those words of the Psalmist, Heb. 1. 6. There will be a wonderful impression of the Divine Image on them. There was so on Adam before the fall: but there will be a far more Glorious impression of the Divine Image on the Children of the ⟨p. 132⟩Resurrection, then there was on Adam in his first Creation, therefore are they called the Sons of God.

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(1.) Angels excel in Wisdom & Knowledge. It is said concerning the particular Time when the Day of Judgment shall begin, Of that Hour knows no man, no not the Angels of heaven, Mat. 24. 36. importing that Angels have a great measure of Knowledge. Davids great Wisdom was set forth by saying, He was wise according to the Wisdom of an Angel of God, to know all things that are on the Earth, 2. Sam. 14. 20. The Children of the Resurrection shall be adorned with Angelical Knowledge. If their Souls attain unto a Marvellous Perfection in Knowledge whilst in their Separate State, (as from another Scripture has been declared) that Knowledge will not be diminished by a re-union with the Body, in the Resurrection World. What an imperfect Knowledge has a Child compared with the Knowledge of a Learned man? A greater difference than that, there is between the Knowledge which

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