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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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Solomon said it should be wonderful Great, 2 Chron. 2. 9. And taking it with the Buildings belonging to it, it was a wonderful Great House. Yet this house in all its Glory and Magnificence, was but a shadow of Heavens Glory. Again, Paradise was a Type of Heaven. That is in the Scripture called Eden, which signifies Pleasure, and the Garden of the Lord. It was a Garden which GOD himself Planted; the like was never on the Earth. How happy had Adam been, might he have continued there? But to be in the Heavenly Paradise, is an inexpressibly greater Happiness. It is promised to him that Overcomes, that he shall Eat of the Tree of Life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God, Rev. 2. 7. Christ in Heaven, is that Tree of Life in the midst of the Paradise of God. Believers shall there Feed upon and be Satisfied with beholding his Glory, throughout the Ages of Eternity.
2. The Names whereby Heaven is described in the Scripture, declares it to be ⟨p. 213⟩a Blessed & a Glorious Place. The Heaven which I am speaking of, and in which the Hope of Believers is Laid up, is called the third Heaven. Paul was Caught up to the third Heaven, 2 Cor. 12. 2. The Hebrew Writers have (as the Scripture has) distinguished Heaven into three Regions, Each one of which is called Heaven.
(1.) There is the Aerial Heaven, in which the Birds fly, and the Clouds appear. The Scripture speaks of the Fowls of Heaven, and the Clouds of Heaven. All that space which is between the Earth and the Stars is called Heaven.