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Two discourses I. of the punishment of sin in hell, demonstrating the wrath of…
Two discourses I. of the punishment of sin in hell, demonstrating the wrath of God to be the immediate cause thereof : II. proving a state of glory for just men upon their dissolution / by Tho. Goodwin ...
London: printed by J.D. for Jonathan Robinson, 1693
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The second thing is, The opposite state of wicked Men in their Lives, and in relation to their dying, and also at and after Death; by which he both illustrates and expounds his meaning in ver. 5. to be to utter his own blessed condition at his Death, v. 15. and to that purpose it is, he further dilates upon the death of wicked Men in ⟨p. 243⟩the rest of the Psalm: And which is indeed a kind of Summary of what in the former Meditation I have pressed.
The second thing is, The opposite state of wicked Men in their Lives, and in relation to their dying, and also at and after Death; by which he both illustrates and expounds his meaning in ver. 5. to be to utter his own blessed condition at his Death, v. 15. and to that purpose it is, he further dilates upon the death of wicked Men in ⟨p. 243⟩the rest of the Psalm: And which is indeed a kind of Summary of what in the former Meditation I have prest.
During their Lives, they trust in their Wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their Riches, v. 6. and yet they see (as the word is, v. 10.) that they cannot redeem their own or others precious Souls from bodily Death, or obtain of God by a Ransom, that they should live for ever. For he sees the wise Man die like as the Fool, and so leave their Wealth to others: Thus in v. 7, 8, 9, 10. That which therefore (miserable Wretches) they relieve themselves with against this, is, Their inward thought is, that their Houses shall continue for ever, and their Dwelling-places to all Generations: They call their Lands after their own Names, and their Posterity approve their Sayings, v. 13. Tho when he dies, he shall carry nothing away, his Glory shall not descend after him, &c. And whither goes he when he dies? His Soul (so 'tis in the Original, and varied in the Margin,) shall go to the Generation of his Fathers, (to the Company of those Giants of the Old World, from whom Hell hath its Name so oft in the Proverbs.) And where are they all? The Spirits in Prison. So the Apostle resolves us, speaking of the Men of the old World,