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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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None besides the Children of God shall have a blessed Resurrection. The Text before us speaks of their Resurrection only. All and only such shall be as the Angels of Heaven. The Jewish Writers (some of them) have a fond and heretical Opinion, that only Israelites shall have a Resurrection of their bodies. It is true, that […] but such as are Israelites indeed in whom there is no guile shall have an happy Resurrection. Although all the dead shall come out of their Graves, the evil as well as the good, the unjust as well as the just; Not only they whose Souls are in Heaven, but they whose Souls are in Hell shall have their bodies restored to Life again at the day of Judgment. The Sea shall give up the dead which are in it, and death, that is the Grave shall give up the dead which are in it, and Hell shall deliver up the dead in it, the Souls which are there shall Live in their Bodies again; Nevertheless, the Resurrection of the Wicked is as no Resurrection at all. Theirs is called the Resurrection of Damnation, Joh. ⟨p. 156⟩5.29. The Souls in Hell wish that their bodies might never Live again. Like as men who are in a sad Prison, had rather be always there and to endure their present Misery, than to be fetched out from thence only to be Condemned to a terrible Death and Executed. So it is the case here. The Souls of men who have dyed in their Sins are in a Prison, and so are their bodies too, the Grave is their Prison. At the universal Resurrection they must be brought out of Prison Body & Soul, to have a Sentence of Eternal death passed upon them, to be Doomed unto Everlasting fire: so that their Resurrection will be worse than none at all. The Children of God are properly the Children of the Resurrection. They only shall have a Resurrection unto Life; others unto the second Death. The Scripture speaks Emphatically of the Resurrection of the Just, Luk. 14.14. The unjust shall not receive an happy reward. The Resurrection of Believers on Christ, proceeds from such Causes […] may not be affirmed of others.
None besides the Children of God shall have a blessed Resurrection. The Text before us speaks of their Resurrection only. All and only such shall be as the Angels of Heaven. The Jewish Writers (some of them) have a fond and heretical Opinion, that only Israelites shall have a Resurrection of their bodies. It is true, that but such as are Israelites indeed in whom there is no guile shall have an happy Resurrection. Although all the dead shall come out of their Graves, the evil as well as the good, the unjust as well as the just; Not only they whose Souls are in Heaven, but they whose Souls are in Hell shall have their bodies restored to Life again at the day of Judgment. The Sea shall give up the dead which are in it, and death, that is the Grave shall give up the dead which are in it, and Hell shall deliver up the dead in it, the Souls which are there shall Live in their Bodies again; Nevertheless, the Resurrection of the Wicked is as no Resurrection at all. Theirs is called the Resurrection of Damnation,