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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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Oh! That men would consider that Death is certain. Oh! that they were Wise, and would consider their Latter End; and that a Resurrection from the Dead, is as certain as Death it self. But every man shall not have a Blessed Resurrection. Nay, but very few that shall: Few there be that find it. It was a fearful word which the Devil in a Possessed man once uttered, saying, I know that at the Day of Judgment, I shall have more will be with me, than Christ will have with Him. But if a man shall not have an Happy Resurrection, what will be his Portion? What will be his Doom? How dismal when his Body shall be brought Out of the Prison of the Grave, and his Soul Out of the Prison of Hell, to appear before the Judgment-seat of CHRIST, to have a Sentence of Eternal Death pronounced upon him by the Son of GOD, and after that holy Angels cast him into the Fire which never shall be Quenched? And, Oh! that Sinners would remember that Now, before their immortal Souls are separated from their Bodies, ⟨p. 182⟩is the Only Time for them to make sure of a Blessed Resurrection. He that does not make sure of it before Death, will never make sure of it. Therefore NOW be in Earnest about it: Do it with thy Might; for there is no Work in the Grave whither thou goest. There will be no hope of it after that fatal hour, if it is not done before that. When once the Body is gone down into the Pit of the Grave, and the immortal Soul into the Pit of Perdition, into blackness of Darkness for ever, there's no more hope: Isa. 38. 18. They that go down into the Pit, cannot hope for thy Truth. And we should always Remember, that it will not be Long before Death will be here. Who can say how soon, how suddenly? Have we not Examples of sudden Deaths, often set before us? It may be this is the Last Sabbath which some of us shall ever see, the Last Sermon which some of us shall ever hear. And as Death shall Leave us, so will the Resurrection Find us; Either among those that shall Rise to Everlasting Life, or among those ⟨p. 183⟩who shall Rise to a Second Death which shall be Eternal.
Oh! That men would consider that Death is certain. Oh! that they were Wise, and would consider their Latter End; and that a Resurrection from the Dead, is as certain as Death it self. But every man shall not have a Blessed Resurrection. Nay, but very few that shall: Few there be that find it. It was a fearful word which the Devil in a Possessed man once uttered, saying, I know that at the Day of Judgment, I shall have more will be with me, than Christ will have with Him. But if a man shall not have an Happy Resurrection, what will be his Portion? What will be his Doom? How dismal when his Body shall be brought Out of the Prison of the Grave, and his Soul Out of the Prison of Hell, to appear before the Judgment-seat of CHRIST, to have a Sentence of Eternal Death pronounc'd upon him by the Son of GOD, and after that holy Angels cast him into the Fire which never shall be Quenched? And, Oh! that Sinners would remember that Now, before their immortal Souls are separated from their Bodies,