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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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(4.) This heaven is a most Delightful Place: For which cause it has the Name of Paradise given to it; as but now we showed. Hence also it is in the Scripture compared to a Mountain of Spices. The Song of Songs which is Solomons, Concludes ⟨p. 224⟩with these words, Make hast, my Beloved, and be thou like a Roe on the Mountains of Spices. This is the Believers Prayer, Make haste, Lord JESUS, to Judge the World, and to carry me with thy self, to be with thee in Heaven; which is resembled to a Mountain, because of the height and stability of it; and of Spices, because 'tis a Sweet and Delightful Place. What a Difference is there between this World and Heaven? Here we Live in Valleys, in a Valley of Tears, in Bottoms of Death and Misery: But HEAVEN is a Mountain, in which there is nothing but what is Delightful and […].
(4.) This heaven is a most Delightful Place: For which cause it has the Name of Paradise given to it; as but now we shewed. Hence also it is in the Scripture compared to a Mountain of Spices. The Song of Songs which is Solomons, Concludes ⟨p. 224⟩with these words, Make hast, my Beloved, and be thou like a Roe on the Mountains of Spices. This is the Believers Prayer, Make haste, Lord JESUS, to Judge the World, and to carry me with thy self, to be with thee in Heaven; which is resembled to a Mountain, because of the height and stability of it; and of Spices, because 'tis a Sweet and Delightful Place. What a Difference is there between this World and Heaven? Here we Live in Valleys, in a Valley of Tears, in Bottoms of Death and Misery: But HEAVEN is a Mountain, in which there is nothing but what is Delightful and 〈…〉.