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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
That these words should aim at this self-same thing, cannot be discerned, without consulting the fore-going part of the Apostle's Discourse: and yet I cannot be large in bringing down the Coherence, having pitched upon what this fifth Verse contributes unto this Argument; which alone will require more than this time allotted, having also very largely gone through the Exposition of the foregoing verses elsewhere: and I ⟨p. 260⟩now go but on where I left last. But yet to make way for the understanding the Scope of my Text, take
The Coherence in brief thus:
In the 16th Verse of the fore-going Chapter (where the Well-head of his Discourse is to be found) he shows the extraordinary Care God hath of our [inward Man] to renew it day by day; where Inward Man is strictly the Soul with its Graces, set in opposition unto our Outward Man, [the Body with its Appurtenances,] which he saith daily perisheth; that is, is in a mouldering and decaying condition.
In the 16th Verse of the fore-going Chapter (where the Well-head of his Discourse is to be found) he shews the extraordinary Care God hath of our [inward Man] to renew it day by day; where Inward Man is strictly the Soul with its Graces, set in opposition unto our Outward Man, [the Body with its Appurtenances,] which he saith daily perisheth; that is, is in a mouldring and decaying condition.