Two discourses I. of the punishment of sin in hell, demonstrating the wrath of…

In this Verse he gives an wholesome Caution by the way, and withal insinuates, why he used the word clothed upon, in the fore-going Verse, thus, speaking of the Glory of such a separate Soul, even because it is absolutely necessary that all our Souls be found clothed first, and renewed with Grace and Holiness, and not be found naked at our Deaths, that is, not devoid of Grace, and so exposed to Shame and Wrath, as Rev. 16. 15.

In this Verse he gives an wholesom Caution by the way, and withal insinuates, why he used the word cloathed upon, in the fore-going Verse, thus, speaking of the Glory of such a separate Soul, even because it is absolutely necessary that all our Souls be found cloathed first, and renewed with Grace and Holiness, and not be found naked at our Deaths, that is, not devoid of Grace, and so exposed to Shame and Wrath, as Rev. 16. 15.

Verse 4. For we that are in this Tabernacle do groan, being burdened; not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that Mortality might be swallowed up of Life.

Verse 4. For we that are in this Tabernacle do groan, being burthened; not for that we would be uncloathed, but cloathed upon, that Mortality might be swallowed up of Life.

The fourth Verse gives a genuine and sincere Account, why a Christian ⟨p. 264⟩doth thus groan, and that after dissolution it self, in order to this Glory; which he sets out with an accurate distinction of their desires of dissolution, in difference from like desires in all other Men: First, Negatively, not for that being burdened we desire to be unclothed, or dissolved; that is, simply for ease of those Burdens: nor out of a despising of our Bodies we now wear, (as their Heathen Wise-men and Philosophers did, and others do); No. But secondly, Positively, For this, as the top-ground of that Desire, That we would be clothed upon with that House, (spoken of Verse 1. and that still taken in the Sense spoken of in the second Verse) to the end that this mortal animal Life, which the Soul (tho immortal in it self) now leads in the Body, full of Sins, clogged with a Body of Death and Miseries; (each of which hath a Death in it) and so it lives but a dying Life; that this Life may be exchanged, yea, swallowed up by that which is Life indeed, the only true Life, the knowing God as we are known, and enjoying him: All which, as to our Souls, is truly performed at our Dissolution; although the final swallowing up the Mortality of our Bodies also doth yet remain to be