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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.
THE Happiness Of SAINTS in HEAVEN Is Wonderfully Great and Glorious. › Proposition 1: PROPOSITION I.
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.
2. God has promised this inheritance to his Saints. He has not only purposed to give it, but has made known his Purpose by his Promise. They are heirs of the Kingdom, which he has promised to them that love him, Jam. 2. 5. Wherefore Heaven is called the Promise: Heb. 10. 36. That you may inherit the Promise. They that inherit Heaven, inherit the Promise. God promised Adam an happy use in Paradise, in case of his continuing this Obedience. But he has promised that which is better than an earthly life in Paradise to the true Believer, viz. Eternal Life in heaven: 1 Joh. 2. 25. And this is the promise that he has […] Eternal Life. The Covenant of Grace is better than the Covenant of Works: It is a better Covenant; established upon better Promises. Hence the Promises of the Covenant are said to be […] great & […], • Pet. 1. 4. An […] in heaven is an exceeding […] thing; Eternal Life there, is a […] thing. Now what ever God has […], will surely be performed. He is a […] Covenant-keeping God, not […] ⟨p. 7⟩he be otherwise. All that […] David he performed. This […] acknowledged […] the Prayer which he made at the […] of the Temple; I King. 8. 23, 24. Lord God of Israel, there […] God […] thee who keepeth Covenant & Mercy with the Servants that walk before thee with all their heart; who hast kept with thy Servant David my Father that then promised him; they spakest with thy mouth, and […] fulfilled it with thy hand. And all that God promised concerning the Children of Israel, he made good: Ver. 56. Blessed he the […], that has given rest to his People Israel, according to all that he promised; there has not failed one word of all his good promise. We may then be assured, that where as God has promised to give his Saints an […] Rest in the heavenly Ganaan, he will not fail to do it.
2. God has promised this inheritance to his Saints. He has not only purposed to give it, but has made known his Purpose by his Promise. They are heirs of the Kingdom, which he has promised to them that love him,