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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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More particularly,
(1.) Angels excel in Wisdom & Knowledge. It is said concerning the particular Time when the Day of Judgment shall begin, Of that Hour knows no man, no not the Angels of heaven, Mat. 24.36. importing that Angels have a great measure of Knowledge. Davids great Wisdom was set forth by saying, He was wise according to the Wisdom of an Angel of God, to know all things that are on the Earth, 2 Sam. 14.20. The Children of the Resurrection shall be adorned with Angelical Knowledge. If their Souls attain unto a Marvellous Perfection in Knowledge whilst in their Separate State, (as from another Scripture has been declared) that Knowledge will not be diminished by a re-union with the Body, in the Resurrection World▪ What an imperfect Knowledge has a Child compared with the Knowledge of a Learned man? A greater difference than that there is between the Knowledge which ⟨p. 133⟩the Children of God have whilst in this World, and that which they shall have in that World. Hence the Apostle speaks as in 1 Cor. 13.11. When I was a Child, I spake as a Child, I understood as a Child, I thought as a Child, but when I became a Man I put away Childish things. Our Knowledge now is weak and childish, but then it will be manly and perfect.
(1.) Angels excel in Wisdom & Knowledge. It is said concerning the particular Time when the Day of Judgment shall begin, Of that Hour knows no man, no not the Angels of heaven, Mat. 24.36. importing that Angels have a great measure of Knowledge. Davids great Wisdom was set forth by saying, He was wise according to the Wisdom of an Angel of God, to know all things that are on the Earth,