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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.
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.
Chap. 5. ver. 1. For we know, that if our earthly House of this Tabernacle were dissolved, we have a Building of God, a House not made with hands, eternal in the Heavens.
In this first verse of this fifth Chapter, he meets with this Supposition: But what if this outward Man or earthly Tabernacle be wholly dissolved and pulled down, what then shall become of this inner Man? And he resolves it thus, That if it be dissolved, we have an House, a Building of