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Meetness for Heaven Promoted

Published: 1679
Length: 31,858 words
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Meetness for heaven promoted in some brief meditations upon Colos. 1. 12. discovering the nature and necessity of habitual and actual meetness for heaven here, in all that hope for heaven hereafter. Designed for a funeral legacy. By O.H. an unworthy minister of the Gospel of Christ.

London printed by J.R. for T. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside [1679]

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Author to the readerAN EPISTLE To my Dearly Beloved Hearers, Friends and Neighbours, and others that will be at the coſt to…
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Chapter 1CHAP. I. The Text opened; Doctrines raiſed and explained.
Doctrine 1Obſ. 1.
Doctrine 2Doct. 2.
Doctrine 3Doct. 3.

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Doctrine 6Doct. 6.
Doctrine 7Doct. 7.
Doctrines 8-9Doct. 8.
Chapter 2CHAP. II. Diſtinctions about meetneſs for Heaven: What habitual meetneſs is: Both relative and real.
Chapter 3CHAP. III. What actual meetneſs for Heaven is in the exerciſes of Graces.
Chapter 4CHAP. IV. Meetneſs for Heaven, in clear evidences of Title to it.
Chapter 5CHAP. V. Meetneſs for Heaven in diſpatching our work here, off our hands.
Chapter 6CHAP. VI. Meetneſs for Heaven, by being mortified to Sin, Time, and Earthly Objects, and being elevated to…
Chapter 7CHAP. VII. Some Reaſons propounded why ſuch muſt be made meet for Heaven here, that hope to be ſaved…
Chapter 8CHAP. VIII. Another Reaſon drawn from the neceſſary conſiſtency of a Chriſtians meetneſs for ſo glorious an…
Chapter 9CHAP. IX. An uſe of conviction and lamentation over Souls that are unmeet for Heaven.
Chapter 10CHAP. X. An Anſwer to the Objection of vain pretenders to a meetneſs for Heaven.
Chapter 11CHAP. XI. An Exhortation to all perſons to get meet for Heaven.
Chapter 12CHAP. XII. The ſecond Doctrine briefly handled, that a meetneſs for Heaven is a mercy worth thanking God for.
Chapter 13CHAP. XIII. Some practical Inferences from this Doctrine.
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Publishers advertisementSome Books to be Sold by Thomas Parkhurſt, at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapſide.

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Author: Oliver Heywood (1629–1702)
Imprint: London printed by J.R. for T. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside [1679]
Extent: [24], 201, [3] p.
Language: English
Catalogue: Wing H1771 · ESTC R216793
Source: TCP A43583
Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Text Creation Partnership)

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