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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 ⟨p. 218⟩is a wonderful Meditation, for a Christian when he walks abroad in the Night, and beholds the Stars, to think with himself, This Body of mine which is now walking here on the Earth, shall one Day walk above the Stars: For so it shall, when after the Resurrection it shall be in that Heaven which is far above them. But then how Vast must the Extent of this Heaven be? The Earth is by Geographers concluded, to be One and Twenty Thousand and Six Hundred Miles in Compass. It is but l•ke a Point in a great Circle, compared […] the rest of the World. The Stars […] ••comparably greater than the Earth. […] Astronomers presume, that they are so many Suns; and some of them at least as big as the Sun. A Late Learned Writer Conjectures, that the Sun is above Three Thousand and Four Hundred time• as big as the Earth. Another supposeth the Body of the Sun to be many Thousand times greater than the Body of th• Earth. Ho• Vast then is the Space o• that Heaven, in which all the Planets • all the Fixed Stars are Contained? Bu• ⟨p. 219⟩the heaven of heavens is of a much Vaster Extent. Well might our Lord say to the Disciples, In my Father's house there are many Mansions. There is Room enough in that heaven for Thousands of Millions of Saints and Angels to Delight themselves for ever. Yet all this heaven as Vast as it is, will God give for an Inheritance to his Children. It was said to Abraham, Lift up thine Eyes, and Look Northward, and Southward, and Eastward, and Westward; all the Land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy Seed after thee, Gen. 13.14, 15. Thus does the Lord say of the Spiritual Children of Abraham, true Believers on Jesus Christ, Let them with an Eye of Faith take a View of the heavenly Canaan, let them Consider how Good and how Great it is, I will give it all to them.