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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.
Exhor. II. To Believers; Make ready for Heaven. You are sure of it, if true Believers. For we are Saved by Hope: But let us Prepare and be in a Readiness for the Blessed Hope. It was Christ's Exhortation to his Disciples, Be you also ready. Mat. 24. 44. Heaven is ready to receive us, when we once are ready for it. There are ⟨p. 268⟩some true Believers who are not so Ready Prepared for heaven as were to be desired: Not so Meet for the Inheritance of the Saints in Light as should be. Certainly the Disciples were not, when Contending about Superiority; and the Lord said to them, Except you be Converted, you shall not inherit the Kingdom of heaven, Mat. 18. 3. There is an Habitual Meetness for heaven, in respect of a Work of Grace […] in the Soul. Thus all true Believers are made Meet for the heavenly World. But there is also an Actual Meetness; Viz. when Christians keep their Souls in Trim: As 'tis said of the Wise Virgins, that they trimmed their Lamps, Mat. 25. 7. When we Live in a Lively Exercise of Grace, and in a longing Expectation and holy Desire of the Lord's Coming, then are our Lamps trimmed; we are ready. As to this Actual Meetness to leave this world and go to the better Country that is the heavenly, many true Believers are Deficient therein.
Exhor. II. To Believers; Make ready for Heaven. You are sure of it, if true Believers. For we are Saved by Hope: But let us Prepare and be in a Reachness for the Blessed Hope. It was Christ's Exhortation to his Disciples, Be you also ready. Mat. 24. 44. Heaven is ready to receive us, when we once are ready for it. There are ⟨p. 268⟩some true Believers who are not so Ready Prepared for heaven as were to be desired: Not so Meet for the Inheritance of the Saints in Light as should be. Certainly the Disciples were not, when Contending about Superiority; and the Lord said to them, Except you be Converted, you shall not inherit the Kingdom of heaven,