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Nepenthes evangelicum. A brief essay, upon a soul at ease; in what piety will…
Nepenthes evangelicum. A brief essay, upon a soul at ease; in what piety will bring both parents and children to. : A sermon occasioned by the death of a religious matron, Mrs. Mary Rock. Who having entered the eighty first year of her age, withdrew from us. 30d. 7m. 1713. / By Cotton Mather, D.D. ; [One line from Matthew]Nepenthes evangelicum. A brief essay, upon a soul at ease; in what piety will bring both parents and children to. : A sermon occasion'd by the death of a religious matron, Mrs. Mary Rock. Who having entred the eighty first year of her age, withdrew from us. 30d. 7m. 1713. / By Cotton Mather, D.D. ; [One line from Matthew]
Boston: printed by Thomas Fleet for Daniel Henchman, 1713
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Our Saviour who is gone to prepare them for us, has told us, Luk. XVI. 9. When ye fail, they shall receive you into everlasting Habitations. ⟨p. 23⟩Our Sin has brought us into Debt unto the Justice of God. When we Die, the Creditor comes upon us for the Debt. Then we fail; we are Broke; we are Bankrupts. Our Dwelling is taken from us. We are turned out of All. But Then! our Compassionate Saviour has Habitations for us, in His Heavenly Mansions. An Excellent Minister in Hereford-shire, not very long ago, uttering these Words, We know, that if our Earthly House of this Tabernacle were dissolved, we have,— There he stopped; There he faltered; There he expired. Instead of Speaking the rest, he went unto it. I will now speak it.— A Building of God, an House not made with Hands, Eternally in the Heavens. Would you know where the Dwelling is? Our Saviour said unto the Dying Penitent; Luk. XXIII. 43. This Day thou shalt be with me in Paradise. Piety will bring to Paradise. The Dwelling of a Soul distinguished by Piety, shall be in the Paradise of God: That which Tertullian calls Locum Divinae Amaenitatis recipiendis Sanctorum Spiritibus Destinatum. Soul, During the Sleep of Death, and in the Days of Darkness, This, this ⟨p. 24⟩will be the Lodging of the Soul: A Paradise, where no Sin, and by Consequence, no Sorrow will cleave unto the Soul. A Paradise, where the Soul will be elevated unto such Contemplations of Him, as to render it after some sort, present with the Lord: A Paradise, where the Soul shall Feed on the Tree of Life, and be refreshed by the Principle of Grace, which God has planted in it. O most easy Dwelling! We Read of the Dying Saints; Isa. LVII. 2. They enter into Peace, they rest in their Beds. Of the Soul Dwelling in such a Paradise, we Read, It is Comforted. There is nothing to render the Dwelling of such a Soul Uneasy, but only its remaining under that part of the Curse; Its Body left Rotten in the Grave; and the Delay of the Resurrection of the Dead, which it is waiting and longing for. But even this Matter of Uneasiness is made Easy, by some Visions of a Glorious CHRIST in the mean time enjoyed, and the glad Assurance of being ere long Raised, and then taken into the City of God.