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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.
3. Jesus Christ has purchased this Inheritance for his saints. They have a right unto it not only by virtue of a promise; but of a blessed purchase. It is a Purchased Possession, E•h. •. •4. Christ has bought his People with a valuable price: Cor. 7. 23. ⟨p. 8⟩Ten are bought with a Price. And when he bought them, he bought heaven for them too. The heavenly Inheritance is infinitely more Valuable than any earthly Inheritance; nevertheless, Christ has given as much for the purchasing of it as it is worth; Namely, his own precious Life & Blood. Believers are bought, & Heaven is bought for them; not with silver, & gold, but with the precious Blood of Jesus Christ, 1 Pet. 1. 19. Silver and Gold will purchase an Earthly Inheritance; but the Heavenly Inheritance is infinitely more Valuable than all the Silver and Gold in the world: But the precious Blood of Christ is of Value sufficient to Purchase it. No mere Man or Creature, did ever Merit any thing at the hands of God; much less so great a Good as the Glory of heaven: But Christ has done it with the price of his infinitely Meritorious Blood. Believers may from the consideration of the infinite Merit of that Blood, have an humble holy Confidence, of their entering into heaven: Heb. 10. 19. Having boldness to enter into the Holiest by the Blood of Jesus. It is not ⟨p. 9⟩to be imagined, that Christ has Died in Vain. The Apostle says, If Righteousness came by the Law, then Christ is Dead in Vain, Gal. 1. 21. So it Believers should not obtain the heavenly Inheritance, then Christ has Died and shed his precious Blood in Vain.
3. Jesus Christ has purchased this Inheritance for his saints. They have a right unto it not only by vertue of a promise; but of a blessed p•rchase. It is a Purchased Possession, E•h. . 4. Christ has bought his People with a valuable price: Cor. 7. 23.