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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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Believers HAVE A Well-grounded HOPE, OF Perfect Blessedness in Heaven. › ANSWER.
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.
2. Let us be Fruitful in Good Works. Growing in Grace, & Abounding in Good Works is making hast to Heaven. When men remove from one Place to another, they use to send their Goods before them. It has been well observed by a Pious Divine, that when Jacob returned to his own Country, he sent his droves before him, and he followed after. Thus should we send droves of Duties & Good Works both of Piety and Charity to go before us to the heavenly Country, which if we are true Believers on Christ, is our own Country, and we shall ere long follow. By this we lay up for our selves Treasure in Heaven. Let us then do all the Good we can whilst we are on the Earth. And there will be a double blessed consequent of it, One is that we shall be the sooner in Heaven. For if we make hast in doing Good Works, the sooner shall we come to the End of our Works, and then we shall be in Heaven, whither our Works as to ⟨p. 272⟩the blessed reward of them will follow us. Blessed are the Dead which dye in the Lord, they cease from their Labours and their Works follow them. Our Saviour Christ said to God, I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do: and now, O Father, glorify me with thy self, Joh. 17, 4, 5. So when the Believer has finished his work, he shall be glorified in Heaven, and if he abounds therein, he will soon have finished it. And then another Consequent is, that the greater will the Glory be when we shall come there. For Christ has said, That He will give to every Man according as his Work shall be. By abounding in Good Works, we Obtain a Bill of Exchange for Heaven, which will be accepted by the Faithful and Glorious Pay Master. 1 Tim. 6.18, 19. Be rich in good Works, laying up in Store for themselves a Good Foundation, (a sure Bill of Exchange is a good foundation) against the time to come, that they may lay hold on Eternal Life.
2. Let us be Fruitful in Good Works. Growing in Grace, & Abounding in Good Works is making hast to Heaven. When men remove from one Place to another, they use to send their Goods before them. It has been well observed by a Pious Divine, that when Jacob returned to his own Country, he sent his droves before him, and he followed after. Thus should we send droves of Duties & Good Works both of Piety and Charity to go before us to the heavenly Country, which if we are true Believers on Christ, is our own Country, and we shall e're long follow. By this we lay up for our selves Treasure in Heaven. Let us then do all the Good we can whilest we are on the Earth. And there will be a double blessed consequent of it, One is that we shall be the sooner in Heaven. For if we make hast in doing Good Works, the sooner shall we come to the End of our Works, and then we shall be in Heaven, whither our Works as to