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.

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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.

Author

Heywood, Oliver, 1629-1702.

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London :: printed by J.R. for T. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside,

[1679]

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Subject terms

Bible. -- N.T. -- Colossians I, 12 -- Commentaries -- Early works to 1800.

Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800.

Heaven -- Early works to 1800.

Congregationalism -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• title page
• AN EPISTLE To my Dearly Beloved Hear∣ers, Friends and Neigh∣bours, and others that will be at the cost to buy, or take the pains to read this small Treatise.
• text
  • CHAP. I. The Text opened; Doctrines raised and explained.
    • Obs. 1.
    • Doct. 2.
    • Doct. 3.
    • Doct 4.
    • Doct. 5.
    • Doct. 6.
    • Doct. 7.
    • Doct. 8.
  • CHAP. II. Distinctions about meetness for Heaven: What habitual meet∣ness is: Both relative and real.
  • CHAP. III. What actual meetness for Heaven is in the exercises of Graces.
  • CHAP. IV. Meetness for Heaven, in clear evi∣dences of Title to it.
  • CHAP. V. Meetness for Heaven in dispatching our work here, off our hands.
  • CHAP. VI. Meetness for Heaven, by being mor∣tified to Sin, Time, and Earthly Objects, and being elevated to Heavenly Objects.
  • CHAP. VII. Some Reasons propounded why such must be made meet for Heaven here, that hope to be saved here∣after.
  • CHAP. VIII. Another Reason drawn from the ne∣cessary consistency of a Christi∣ans meetness for so glorious an Inheritance.
  • CHAP. IX. An use of conviction and lamenta∣tion over Souls that are unmeet for Heaven.
  • CHAP. X. An Answer to the Objection of vain pretenders to a meetness for Heaven.
  • CHAP. XI. An Exhortation to all persons to get meet for Heaven.
  • CHAP. XII. The second Doctrine briefly hand∣led, that a meetness for Heaven is a mercy worth thanking God for.
  • CHAP. XIII. Some practical Inferences from this Doctrine.
• Some Books to be Sold by Thomas Parkhurst, at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside.