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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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The Glorified SOULS OF Just Men Have attained a Blessed Perfection. › Proposition 1: PROPOSITION I.
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PROPOSITION I.
True Believers on Jesus Christ are Just Men. There are but two sorts of men in the World; the Just, and the Unjust: So does the Scripture distinguish, Act. 24. 15. The whole World is divided into these two. There is not a man upon Earth, but is among the Just, or among the Unjust ⟨p. 54⟩All Christless Sinners are the Unjust: All true Believers are the Just. They are Justified Persons: GOD declares them to be so. He is the Justifier of him that believes on Jesus, Rom. 3. 26. A Righteous man and a true Believer on Christ are the same Persons. There is a twofold Righteousness belonging to the Believer.
1. An Imputed Righteousness; Rom. 4. 6. David describes the Blessedness of the man to whom God Imputeth Righteousness without Works. And Ver. 11. Tis said, Abraham is the Father of all them that believe; that Righteousness might be Imputed to them also. Were it not for the Righteousness of Christ imputed to him, no man living could be a just man in the fight of God. Gal. 2. 16. Knowing that a man is not justified by the Works of the Law, but by Faith in Jesus Christ; that we might be justified by the Faith of Christ, & not by the Works of the Law: for by the Works of the Law, shall no Flesh living be justified. Wherefore no Soul of man had ever been among the innumerable Company of Angels, or in the Heavenly Jerusalem, if it had not been for