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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 Timothy Green in Middle Street., 1711
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(1.) They are perfectly delivered from Original Sin, That which the Scripture calls the Sin that dwells in us; under which holy men Mourn as long as they continue in this world: Rom. 7.24. O wretched man that I am, Who shall deliver me from the Body of this Death? One of the Ancients fitly compares indwelling sin to Ivy in the Wall of an House. Others have as fitly compared it to the Leprosy in the House of the Israelites, which must be pulled down before it could be perfectly cleansed and cleared of that woeful Evil, Lev. 13.45. A man becomes a sinful Creature, as soon as there is an Union between his soul and his body; and the just man ceaseth to be a sinner, when that Union is dissolved. When he giveth up the ghost, indwelling sin giveth up the ghost with him. The habit of sin is wholly Eradicated out of his soul. The disposition to sin is then perfectly abolished: Th• ⟨p. 73⟩root and seed of sin has no more an inherence in his soul. There is no more in him any inclination to that which is Evil, or any indisposition to that which is Good.
(1.) They are perfectly delivered from Original Sin, That which the Scripture calls the Sin that dwells in us; under which holy men Mourn as long as they continue in this world: Rom. 7.24. O wretched man that I am, Who shall deliver me from the Body of this Death? One of the Ancients fitly compares indwelling sin to Ivy in the Wall of an House. Others have as fitly compared it to the Leprosy in the House of the Israelites, which must be pulled down before it could be perfectly cleansed and cleared of that woful Evil, Lev. 13.45. A man becomes a sinful Creature, as soon as there is an Union between his soul and his body; and the just man ceaseth to be a sinner, when that Union is dissolved. When he giveth up the ghost, indwelling sin giveth up the ghost with him. The habit of sin is wholly Eradicated out of his soul. The disposi•tion to sin is then perfectly abolished: Th