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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Believers HAVE A Well-grounded HOPE, OF Perfect Blessedness in Heaven. › Application 2: USE. II.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Consider, 1. That as long as Men remain in a Christless Estate (as all Unbelievers do) they have no reason to think that this blessed Hope belongs to them. If Christless then Hopeless. Eph. 2.12. Ye were without Christ, having no Hope. They that would see Heaven, must first get into the Way which leads thither; A Christless Sinner never was in that Way. For Christ Himself is the Way: So has He said, Joh. 14 6. I am the Way, the Truth▪ and the Life, no man comes to the Father bu• by Me. Jesus Christ is the only Way unto Eternal Life, No man will ever com• to the Enjoyment of God in Heaven, bu• by Him. The way of Faith in Christ which is always attended with Obedience to the Commandments of God, is, an• ⟨p. 259⟩ever has been the Way to Heaven. It is therefore called, The Way Everlasting, because the Servants of God in all Ages of the World have gone to Heaven in that Way, Psal. 139.24. The Unbeliever has been going astray, ever since he was born. He has been departing from the Living God, by an evil heart of Unbelief. His back has been on Heaven, and his face towards Hell, going down to the Chambers of Death. There are but two ways, viz. the way to Heaven, and the way to Hell; and every Man in the World is go•ng in one of these ways. The true Believer on Christ is in the way to Heaven; •he Unbeliever in the way to Hell. Joh •.36. He that believes on the Son of God, has Everlasting Life: he that believeth not •he Son, has not Life; but the Wrath of God •bideth on him. What folly is it, for a •inner who is Going, nay Running in the •ay to Hell, to hope or think that he hall get to Heaven? No, he must Turn bout, and go on in another way. Turn […], turn ye from your evil ways; for why […]?