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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Believers HAVE A Well grounded HOPE, OF Perfect Blessedness in Heaven. › Proposition 3: PROPOSITION III.

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1. The Blessedness of the Place. That Heaven which is to be the Seat of the Blessed, is a most blessed and desirable Place. There are some Countries on the Earth, which are far more desirable to Live in, than Others are. But the Scripture tells us of an Heavenly Country. There is no Country on the Earth to be compared with that. Tis said of the Holy Patriarchs, they Desire a better Country, that is an Heavenly, Heb. 11. 16. It appears that Heaven is a most Desirable Place from several things.

1. The Blessedness of the Place. That Heaven which is to be the Seat of the Blessed, is a most blessed and desirable Place. There are some Countries on the Earth, which are far more desirable to Live in, than Others are. But the Scripture tells us of an Heavenly Countrey. There is no Countrey on the Earth to be compared with that. Tis said of the Holy Patriarchs, they Desire a better Countrey, that is an Heavenly, Heb. 11. 16. It appears that Heaven is a most Desirable Place from several things.

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1. From the Types of it. There are Glorious Types of it mentioned in the Scripture; e. g. The Land of Canaan was a desirable Country to Live in; Tis called the good Land. When the Children of Israel had provoked the Lord by their Unbelief, He Swore that they should not ⟨p. 210⟩see the good Land, Deut. 1. 35. It is called the glorious Land, Dan. 11. 16. It was the Glory of all Lands, Ezek. 20. 6. So is Heaven the Glory of the whole Creation: It is the Goodliest part of the Creation of God. Because of the Land of Canaan was a Figure of Heaven, therefore (as from another Scripture we have showed) Heaven is called an Inheritance. None but Israelites had a right to inherit that Land. Thus none but Believers on Christ, have a right to the Heavenly Inheritance. It was by means of Joshua, that the Children of Israel Inherited Canaan: It is by means of JESUS our Lord, that Believers Inherit Heaven. The Children of Israel dwelt in Houses which they never built: So do the Children of God in Heaven, dwell in Mansions which they had not the least hand in building them. The Land of Canaan is called the Land of Promise,

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