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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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And Spiritual Comfort from holy Ordinances: They suck Consolations from those Breasts. But in Heaven God will be instead of all. No need of any thing else to make us Happy. And GOD alone shall be the Object of our Love. In Heaven we shall Love no Creature ⟨p. 241⟩out of God, but all in God; or rather God in them all.
IV. Blessedness consists in the Eternity of the Enjoyment. When Eternity and Blessedness meet together, that's Perfect Blessedness. It has formerly been declared, and let me now say it again, that to Enjoy the blessedness of Heaven, if it were but for One Day, would have more of Consolation and true Happiness in it, than there is in a Thousand Years of the greatest Earthly Prosperity. One Day there is better than a Thousand elsewhere, Psal. 84. 10. But what then is an Eternity of that Happiness? Could the Saints in Heaven have the least Fear of ever being deprived of so great Blessedness, the thought of that would make them Miserable. For th•• greater the Happiness is, the greater the Misery in being Deprived of it. But they know that if once in Heaven, for ever there: Rev. 3. 12. He shall go no more out. This the Psalmist knew, and it was his great Consolation, when walking in the Valley of the shadow of ⟨p. 242⟩Death; Psal. 23. 6. Goodness & Mercy shall follow me all the Days of my Life; and I shall Dwell in the House of the Lord for ever. Heaven is that House of the Lord, in which Believers shall dwell for ever, when the days of their Life on Earth are ended. There is nothing in Heaven but what speaks Eternity. GOD is there: And he is the Eternal: And therefore he speaks, as