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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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And what? Have I been telling you all this while an artificial pleasant Story? Doth not this Scripture tell the very same? For a close, do but now at last take a view and prospect of our Apostle's whole Discourse. The Round and Circle whereof begun at chap. 4. ver. 16. and endeth with my Text; and do you not find it speak (to use the Text's Language) the very self-same thing?
1. He tells us there of an inward Man renewed, whilst the outward is a perishing, to the end it may live and subsist alone, when the body is wholly dissolved; (there he lays his Foundation) And is not this all one with what the Text says? God works Us (these Souls) day by day: Even as the Child is curiously wrought in the Womb, to subsist of it self alone in this World, so this inward Man in that other.
1. He tells us there of an inward Man renewed, whilst the outward is a perishing, to the end it may live and subsist alone, when the body is wholly dissolved; (there he lays his Foundation) And is not this all one with what the Text sayes? God works Us (these Souls) day by day: Even as the Child is curiously wrought in the Womb, to subsist of it self alone in this World, so this inward Man in that other.