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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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Inf. I. All the Children of GOD are Infinitely beholden to the Lord Jesus Christ. They are beholden to Him for the Resurrection of their Bodies. The Apostles Preached through Jesus the Resurrection from the Dead, Act. 4.2. We had never had an happy Resurrection if it had not been through Jesus. And therefore not One that shall die in a Christless Estate will ⟨p. 164⟩have such a Resurrection. Christ has made Believers to be happier than Ever Adam in Paradise was. For the present they are under a better Covenant. The Covenant of Grace is better than the Covenant of Works, and Established upon better Promises. It is through Jesus Christ, that we are concerned in that Covenant, Isa. 42.6. There are heavenly blessings, and such a glorious Perfection of Happiness Promised to Believers on Christ, as we cannot say Adam had a Promise of. That Heaven which is Promised to Believers, does incomparably Excel the Earthly Paradise which belonged to Adam, and in which he should have Lived happily with a Confluence of Earthly blessings, if he had not Sinned. And for the present, Believers appear before God in a more glorious Righteousness than Adam had before his fall. He had only a Righteousness of his Own, which was not the Righteousness of One that is God; whenas the Righteousness of God is upon all that believe, Rom. 3.22. The Righteousness of Christ is imputed to them, and that is ⟨p. 165⟩the Righteousness of God. And when Believers shall become the Children of the Resurrection, they will be far more glorious than ever Adam was. He was made Lower than the Angels, and not Equal to them in his first and best Estate. But as for Believers, Christ has advanced them to an Equality with Angels in more respects than one, as we have showed. Oh▪ how are we beholden to Christ? Nay, in respect of him they are dignified above Angels. For He took not on him the Nature of Angels, but the Nature of Man He has assumed. The Believer is nearer akin to the Son of God, than any Angel in heaven is.
Inf. I. All the Children of GOD are Infinitely beholden to the Lord Jesus Christ. They are beholden to Him for the Resurrection of their Bodies. The Apostles Preached through Jesus the Resurrection from the Dead,