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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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(1.) It is compared to an Inheritance: If a man has a great Inheritance fallen to him, he is counted an happy man: Therefore is Heaven resembled to an Inheritance: 1 Pet. 1. 4. An Inheritance reserved in heaven for them. The Joys of heaven are called, the Inheritance of the Saints in Light, Col. 1. 12. When Heaven is compared to an Inheritance, it is in allusion to the Land of Canaan, which was divided by Lot to the Children of Israel; and given to them for an Inheritance. Moses said to them, Ye are not come to the Rest […] to the Inheritance which the Lord your God giveth you, but when you go over Jordan, […] dwell in the Land which the Lord your God giveth you to Inherit, &c Deut. 1. 2. 9, 10. A great part of their Temporal happiness was in their Inheriting so desirable a Land. It is called a Pleasant Land, & a Goodly Heritage, Jer. 3. 19. But what is Heaven then? Tis said of Canaan, that it was […] flowing with Milk & Honey, which was ⟨p. 17⟩the Glory of all Lands, Ezek. 20. 6. The blessed satisfactions & sweet enjoyments of heaven were figured thereby. If the Land of Canaan was a glorious Land, what a glorious place is Heaven do we think? The holy Patriarchs who sojourned in Canaan desired a better Country, that is an Heavenly one, Heb. 11. 16.
(1.) It is compared to an Inheritance: If a man has a great Inheritance fallen to him, he is counted an happy man: Therefore is Heaven resembled to an Inheritance: 1 Pet. 1. 4. An Inheritance reserved in heaven for them. The Joys of heaven are called, the Inheritance of the Saints in Light, Col. 1. 12. When Heaven is compared to an Inheritance, it is in allusion to the Land of Canaan, which was divided by Lot to the Children of Israel; and given to them for an Inheritance. Moses said to them, Ye are not come to the Rest to the Inheritance which the Lord your God giveth you, but when you go over Jordan, dwell in the Land which the Lord your God giveth you to Inherit, &c