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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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(3.) There is the Supreme Heaven, that which is the Seat of the Blessed, and of which the holy Angels are the Native Inhabitants; who are therefore said to be the Angels of Heaven, Mat. 22. 30. This is the Third Heaven, which is also called the Heaven of Heavens, Deut. 10. 14. Importing ⟨p. 214⟩that it is of all Heavens, the most Excellent & Glorious One. Sometimes it is called Heaven Absolutely and Emphatically: No other heaven is worth the mentioning in Comparison of this. It is also called the City of God. The City of Jerusalem, which was the Perfection of Beauty, and the Joy of the whole Earth, was but as a Shadow of it. It is the City whose Builder & Maker is God, Heb. 11. 10. All other Cities have been Built by Men, but this no man had an hand in Building it, or in making any part of it; only GOD himself by his own Infinite Power and Wisdom. The Greek word there used for Builder, is Technites; which signifies an Artificer. GOD alone was the Artificer, when this City was Built. He has showed his Art, his Skill, his Incomparable Wisdom in Framing of it. No Creature could have been the Author of such a Building; as we shall see and believe when God shall bring us into it. There it is that the Great King has his Residence, and keeps his Court with more than ten thousand times ten thousand of ⟨p. 215⟩the Noblest Creatures that ever were made, attending on him. This Heaven is the Palace Royal of the Divine Majesty. Mean persons may dwell in poor Cottages, but Kings in Magnificent Houses. What do we think of the Palace in which the King of the World, the Lord of Heaven and Earth, has his holy Habitation? How Glorious is it? Look […] from heaven the Habitation of thy holiness, and of thy glory. This heaven is called God's Throne, Mat. 5. 34. When Kings Sit upon their Thrones, they appear in all their Glory. In heaven God appears in such Glory, as no mortal Man is able to behold. When Moses Prayed, Show […] thy Glory, God said to him, Thou canst not see my Face; no man shall see me & live.