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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Believers HAVE A Well grounded HOPE, OF Perfect Blessedness in Heaven. › Application 2: USE. II.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Consider, 1. That as long as Men remain in a Christless Estate (as all Unbelievers do) they have no reason to think that this blessed Hope belongs to them. If Christless, then Hopeless. Eph. 2. 12. Ye were without Christ, having no Hope. They that would see Heaven, must first get into the Way which leads thither; A Christless Sinner never was in that Way. For Christ Himself is the Way: So has He said, Joh. 14. 6. I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life, no man comes to the Father but by Me. Jesus Christ is the only Way unto Eternal Life, No man will ever come to the Enjoyment of God in Heaven, but by Him. The way of Faith in Christ, which is always attended with Obedience to the Commandments of God, is, and ⟨p. 259⟩ever has been the Way to Heaven. It is therefore called, The Way Everlasting, because the Servants of God in all Ages of the World have gone to Heaven in that Way, Psal. 139. 24. The Unbeliever has been going astray, ever since he was born. He has been departing from the Living God, by an evil heart of Unbelief. His back has been on Heaven, and his face towards Hell, going down to the Chambers of Death. There are but two ways, viz. the way to Heaven, and the way to Hell; and every Man in the World is going in one of these ways. The true Believer on Christ is in the way to Heaven; the Unbeliever in the way to Hell. Joh. 3. 36. He that believes on the Son of God, has Everlasting Life: he that believeth not the Son, has not Life; but the Wrath of God abideth on him. What folly is it, for a Sinner who is Going, nay Running in the way to Hell, to hope or think that he shall get to Heaven? No, he must Turn about, and go on in another way. Turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will you die?
Consider, 1. That as long as Men remain in a Christless Estate (as all Unbelievers do) they have no reason to think that this blessed Hope belongs to them. If Christless, then Hopeless. Eph. 2. 12. Ye were without Christ, having no Hope. They that would see Heaven, must first get into the Way which leads thither; A Christless Sinner never was in that Way. For Christ Himself is the Way: So has He said,