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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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The Angel said, To God nothing is unpossible. GOD is able to cause such a wonderful Change in the Soul to be accomplished in One Day, in One Moment. GOD who Converts a Soul from a state of sin in a moment; who turns a Sinner into a Saint in a moment, as he has often done, can make a Sinful Soul to become a Sinless Soul in a moment. And the Consideration of what shall be done to the Saints, whom Christ shall find alive on the Earth when he shall come to Judge the World at the Last Day, may Confirm our Faith concerning this also. Their Bodies & their Souls too will be wonderfully Changed in ⟨p. 76⟩a moment. Just before the Last Trumpet shall sound, they will have Souls & Bodies subject to Sin: but as soon as the Trumpet is heard sounding, they are made Perfect in a moment. Behold, I show you a Mystery; We shall not all Sleep, but we shall all be Changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last Trump, (for the Trumpet shall sound, and the Dead shall be raised Incorruptible, & we shall be Changed,) 1 Cor. 15.51, 52. And thus it was with Enoch, & Elijah, when they were Translated: Before their Translation they were subject to sin; but in a moment perfectly freed from sin. Why then should it not be so with the Souls of Just men, when they are Translated from Earth to Heaven? But this shall be further Confirmed and Cleared in the next Proposition.
The Angel said, To God nothing is unpossible. GOD is able to cause such a wonderful Change in the Soul to be accomplished in One Day, in One Moment. GOD who Converts a Soul from a state of sin in a moment; who turns a Sinner into a Saint in a moment, as he has often done, can make a Sinful Soul to become a Sinless Soul in a moment. And the Consideration of what shall be done to the Saints, whom Christ shall find alive on the Earth when he shall come to Judge the World at the Last Day, may Confirm our Faith concerning this also. Their Bodies & their Souls too will be wonderfully Changed in ⟨p. 76⟩a moment. Just before the Last Trumpet shall sound, they will have Souls & Bodies subject to Sin: but as soon as the Trumpet is heard sounding, they are made Perfect in a moment. Behold, I shew you a Mystery; We shall not all Sleep, but we shall all be Changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last Trump, (for the Trumpet shall sound, and the Dead shall be raised Incorruptible, & we shall be Changed,)