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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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The Glorified SOULS OF Just Men Have attained a Blessed Perfection. › Proposition 2: PROPOSITION II.
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PROPOSITION II.
The Souls of Men do not Die, nor lie Dormient when their Bodies Dye. The Bodies of men are mortal. Rom 6.12. Let not sin reign in your mortal Body. But the Soul is not Mortal: The Soul is an Immortal Spirit. In this the Reasonable Soul of man, excels the Sensitive Soul of inferior Creatures, which does Expire & Die when their Bodies Die, Eccl. 3. ⟨p. 56⟩21. Who knows the Spirit of Man that goes upward, and the Spirit of the Beast that goes downward to the Earth? The spirit of a Beast was in the first Creation formed out of the Earth: The Earth brought it forth, Gen. 1.24. But it was not so with Man. Although' his Body was made of the Dust of the Earth, his Soul was not so: that came from GOD immediately. His Creator Breathed into him the Breath of Life, and Man became a Living Soul, Gen. 2.7. The Hebrew word Chaijm, signifies Lives in the Plural Number. There is the Vegetative Life of a Plant, the Sensitive Life of a Beast, the Intellectual Life of an Angel. Man by reason of his Soul has all these Lives. He has not only a Mortal, but an Immortal Life. His Soul coming from God, when the Body Dies does not go downward, but upward to him who gave the first Soul to Man. So says Solomon, Eccl. 12.7. The Dust shall return to the Earth as it was: and the Spirit shall return to God who gave it. Wherefore when men Die, they are said to Depart: Their Bodies do not depart from the Earth: they ⟨p. 57⟩abide in the Grave, which, is their Long Home; but their Souls depart out of their Bodies, and out of this World. Good Old Simeon was very willing to Depart,