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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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(2.) The Angels of heaven are called Holy Angels, Math. 25. 31. They are the Holy Ones the Prophet speaks of, Da•. 4. 17. They are perfectly pure from Sin. When they appeared to men, their Raiment has been White, an Emblem of their Purity as well as their Glory. But thus shall it be with the Children of God, in the Resurrection World. They shall have no more Sin in them, than the Angels of heaven have. Then will the Spouse of Christ be all fair, and no spot in her, Cant. 4. 7. It will be a glorious Church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but holy and without blemish, Eph. 5. 27. We are taught to Pray, Thy Will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven. So it shall be in the Resurrection ⟨p. 134⟩World. Saints on Earth will then do the Will of God, with a perfection Equal to that of Angels in Heaven.
[2.] The Children of the Resurrection cannot dye. So it is said in the Text before us: Neither can they dye any more. It is on this account especially that they are said to be Equal with the Angels, viz. In respect of a blessed Immortality. It is to be affirmed of Angels, not only that they shall not, but that they cannot dye. It is said of the Immortal Souls of men that they cannot be killed; much more may it be said of Angels, they cannot be killed. God who made them is able to Annihilate them, but they cannot dye: they cannot be resolved into pre-existent Principles, because they were not made out of such. In this World there is not a man but what shall dye: What man is he that liveth and shall not see death? But in the Resurrection World there is not one that shall dye. They who were Mortal in this World, become Immortal in that World, There it is that Mortality is swallowed up of Life,