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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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PROPOSITION IV.
The Glorious Happiness of Saints in the Heavenly World, is not brought to its full Perfection at once, but gradually. There are three steps in this Glorious Happiness which I shall now only mention; and (if the Lord will) insist more Largely on each of them, from other Texts of Scripture.
The Glorious Happiness of Saints in the Heavenly World, is not bro't to its full Perfection at once, but gradually. There are three steps in this Glorious Happiness which I shall now only mention; and (if the Lord will) insist more Largely on each of them, from other Texts of Scripture.
1. At the Hour of Death Believers on Christ are Happy: Then are they freed from all Sin and Sorrow; Rev. 14. 13. Blessed are the Dead which Die in the Lord. They pass immediately from Death into Eternal Life, Joh. 5. 24. When they leave this World, they go to a Better; To the Heavenly Paradise. They go to Christ: Being absent from the Body, they are present with the Lord. When their Bodies are Dead, their Souls are Happy in their separate state. Therefore does the Scripture speak of the Spirits of Just men made Perfect, Heb. 12. 23. The Spirit whilst in the Body, is usually called the Soul; but when separated from the Body, it is a Spirit.