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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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(3.) Another Property of this heaven is, a wonderful Splendour. A marvellous Clarity and Brightness beyond what is in the most Resplendent Gems. It is called a Throne of Sapphire-stone, which shines with a great Brightness, Ezek. 1.26. The Elders of Israel had a wonderful Vision: the Son of God appeared to them in an Humane shape: They saw the God of Israel, and there was under his Feet as it were a Paved work of Sapphire-stone: and as it were the body of heaven in its c••••ness, Exod. 24.10. Thus had they a Miraculous Glimpse of heaven. The third Heaven is by Divines called the Empyrean heaven […] ⟨p. 223⟩not for its heat, but for its light. Hence also resembled to a Jasper Stone, Rev. 21.11. Writers say of the Jasper, that the brightness of it never ceaseth; the Clouds do not darken it, nor does it leave shining when the Sun shines; nor does the splendour of it hurt the Eyes; but the more men look on it, the more it pleaseth them. One of our own Divines says truly, All the Lustre and shining Beauty of Diamonds and Precious Stones, if they could be united into one Object, are not to be compared with this. The Sun & Stars may be looked on as spots of Darkness, compared with this Heaven. There is no Night there. How should there, when all the Glorified Body's of the Children of God, shall shine as so many Suns in the Kingdom of their Father?
(3.) Another Property of this heaven is, a wonderful Splendor. A marvellous Clarity and Brightness beyond what is in the most Resplendent Gems. It is called a Throne of Sapphire-stone, which shines with a great Brightness, Ezek. 1.26. The Elders of Israel had a wonderful Vision: the Son of God appeared to them in an Humane shape: They saw the God of Israel, and there was under his Feet as it were a Paved work of Sapphire-stone: and as it were the body of heaven in its c••••ness,