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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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It has been Observed, That when God inclines the Hearts of any of His Servants to dwell much in their Meditations on Another World, it is a Sign that they have not Long to be in This World. Mr. Bolton Died Preaching on the Happiness of Heaven. Our Famous Mr. Mitchel (who was in his Time the Glory of Cambridge) his Last Lecture-Sermons were on the Eternal Glory of Believers, after this Life. Those Excellent and Heavenly Discourses have been Printed at London, and I wish they were Reprinted in Boston; where many much Inferior to them have been so.
It has been Observed, That when God inclines the Hearts of any of His Servants to dwell much in their Meditations on Another World, it is a Sign that they have not Long to be in This World. Mr. Bolton Dy'd Preaching on the Happiness of Heaven. Our Famous Mr. Mitchel (who was in his Time the Glory of Cambridge) his Last Lecture-Sermons were on the Eternal Glory of Believers, after this Life. Those Excellent and Heavenly Discourses have been Printed at London, and I wish they were Reprinted in Boston; where many much Inferiour to them have been so.
If there is any thing in the mentioned Observation (or whether there is or no,) it may be hoped that the Time of my Departure from this Earth is near at ⟨p. iv⟩hand. It must needs be so; because I have been an Unprofitable Servant therein, upwards of Seventy and Two Years; and more than Fifty are Expired, since I began my Public Ministry in Boston. Would Christians Think much of the Vanity of all things on the Earth; and on the Soul-satisfaction which is to be had in Beholding the Glory of JESUS CHRIST in the Heavenly World, surely they would Long to be there.
If there is any thing in the mentioned Observation (or whether there is or no,) it may be hoped that the Time of my Departure from this Earth is near at ⟨p. iv⟩hand. It must needs be so; because I have been an Unprofitable Servant therein, upwards of Seventy and Two Years; and more than Fifty are Expired, since I began my Publick Ministry in Boston. Would Christians Think much of the Vanity of all things on the Earth; and on the Soul-satisfaction which is to be had in Beholding the Glory of JESUS CHRIST in the Heavenly World, surely they would Long to be there.