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A70554	Early piety, exemplified in the life and death of Mr. Nathanael Mather, who ... changed earth for heaven, Oct. 17. 1688 whereto are added some discourses on the true nature, the great reward, and the best season of such a walk with God as he left a pattern of.	Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.; Mather, Samuel, 1651-1728.	1689 (1689)	Wing M1097A; ESTC R20873	63,808	161

God will take us where they shall be our intimate Companions We shall move and live among those morning Stars The First-born they are our Familiars here we covet their being so notwithstanding all the Folly and Error and Ill humour that is often in them God will take us vvhere we shall associate our selves with all that ever feared God and not one breach of Charity shall ever disturb our Conversation there Fourthly The State which God will take the Believers into the Comforts of will be an Eternal State. God will take us to an House but what a one We read in 2 Cor. 5. 1. It will be an eternal House God will take us to a Glory But of what sort is it We read in 1 Pet. 5. 10. It is an eternal glory God will take us to an Inheritance But how long shall it last We read in Heb. 9. 15. It is an Eternal Inheritance Truly it is a Life Eternal which our God will take us to We shall be in it as many Millions of Ages as there are Drops in the Ocean or Atoms in the Universe yet Believer thou shalt say My Heaven will infinitely outlast as many Ages more Prop. III. There is a variety of Dispensation used by God in his thus taking of them that Walk with him The Lords taking of Men is in general by his changing of them it is by making that they shall not be Not an Annihilation but a vast Alteration happens to Believers when it shall be said of them They are not And then they are taken by the Lord And in particular it is managed three such ways as these First It is by Dying when we Dye then we are not The Dying Man may say as in Psal 39. 13. I go hence I am no more The Dead Man is not a Man in such a place he is not a Man of such a Thought he is not acting upon such Objects as he was before When a Man is ready to Dye we perceive it by Changing as we call it of the Man much more when a Man is dead he is a changed Man. Then it is that we are taken by the Lord Thus it is said in Isa 57. 1. The Righteous is taken away The Spirit is then taken to all the Delights and Pleasures that a separate Soul can feed upon Secondly It is by Rising When vve Rise at the last day then vve are not vve are not such feeble vvretched things as we are this day The Resurrection will bring a marvellous Change on the Subjects of it It is the Speech of Job in Ch. 14. 14. If a man dye shall he live again He seems to refute vvhat he did recite just before as the Opinion of too many Men and say now Yes that he shall find And hence it is added I will wait all the Dayes of my appointed time until my Change come What Change is that I will not exclude or oppose the common sense of it yet I would humbly suggest vvhy may it not be the Change which the next Words referr unto Thou shalt call and I will answer thee thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine Hands At the Resurrection it will be so God will then have a Desire to see our once Curious but novv Rotten Body set in order again he shall then call Arise ye Dead where are you Arise And we shall start out of the Dust as it were ansvvering Lord I come This the Departed Soul is to keep waiting for It seems more than a Moment it may seem a long while to the Soul 'till this be accomplished Then it is also that we are taken by the Lord with some respect unto this our Lord said unto his Disciples in Joh. 14. 3. I will come again and take you unto my self The Body is then also taken to be an Incorruptible a Spiritual and a Powerful Instrument of the Soul in all the motions of it Thirdly There is another Taking that some have Experience of and that is by Translation There are some Persons in whom the Vnion between their spirits and their bodies never is dissolved by the Ministry of Angels they are both in spirit and in body too made capable of a present entrance into the Kingdom of God and so those vvinged Messengers of Heaven carry them avvay vvithout any more ado This vvas the Prerogative of Enoch before the Law and of Elijah under it I believe this would have been the Case of all Men if Adam had not sinned vvhen he did and there are many thousands of Pious People vvith vvhom it will yet be so At the second Coming of our Lord there will be multitudes of Christians in the World vvhat vvill become of them vvhen the Fire of God shall be flaming and raging as far as Noah's Flood did extend of old How shall they get out of the vvay of that horrible Fire that shall consume and carry all before be Hear Davids Answer to that Question in 1 Chron. 28. 15. Our days on Earth are as a Shadow and there is none abiding Let James answer it in Jam. 4. 14. What is your Life it is even a Vapour that appeareth for a little time and vanishes away Let Jo● answer it in Job 9. 25. My dayes are swifter than a Post they are passed away as the swift Ships as an Eagle that hastens to the Prey Our Age is now contracted into Seventy Years and how few reach to Seventy in comparison of them that never see Twenty of them Besides a big part of our few dayes are already past and gone with many of us How many may sadly sit and sigh and say this day I have been here but a little while yet I cannot now be so long more as I have already been Consider 2. If God then take us not who will I have read of a profane Monster who on one side of his Sword had the Picture of Christ on the other side the Picture of the Devil with this Motto under it Si tu non vis iste rogitat If He won't Take me here 's One that will. Horrid Creature But that Frenzy is almost equalled among us by those that wish the Devil to take them every day Alas that that will be the horrible Destruction of them that shall not be taken by the Lord. It is a fearful Curse upon the wicked Man in Psal 109. 6. Let Satan stand at his right hand Thus O thus it will be When the Soul of a wicked Man is going away a Devil a Dragon stands by his Bed-side and will take and hold and wound that miserable Soul. Yea there is a more astonishing Vengeance to come upon such a Man. If a Man be not taken by the saving Hands he will be taken by the damning Hands of God himself The Hands of the Great and Terrible God will for ever take those that fall thereinto and smite them and slay them with immediate Impressions of his Fiery Wrath. But what sayes the Apostle in