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A state of glory for spirits of just men upon dissolution, demonstrated. A sermon…
A state of glory for spirits of just men upon dissolution, demonstrated. A sermon preached in Pauls Church Aug. 30. 1657. before the Rt. Honourable the Lord Mayor and aldermen of the City of London. / By Tho: Goodwin, D.D. president of Magd. Coll. Oxon.A state of glory for spirits of just men upon dissolution, demonstrated. A sermon preached in Pauls Church Aug. 30. 1657. before the Rt. Honourable the Lord Mayor and aldermen of the City of London. / By Tho: Goodvvin, D.D. president of Magd. Coll. Oxon.
London: printed by J.G. for Robert Dawlman, 1657
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2. God at this season, forgets not, but full well remembers his Relation of being [THEIR CREATOR] both by the new, & also first creation (the new reviving & ingratiating the remembrance of the first) [The SOULS which I HAVE MADE] said he in Isaiah. But in our Peter this is more express, and mentioned as that which indeed moves God (and should be accordingly a support to our Faith) to take care of our Souls when we come to die, even upon this account, that he is the faithful creator of them, 1 Pet. 4. last. Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God, commit the KEEPING OF THEIR SOULS to him, in well-doing, as unto a FAITHFUL CREATOR. He speaks this specially unto such as were continually exposed unto persecution unto death for Christ in those Primitive times; which therefore, v. 12. he terms the fiery trial, and ver. 17. forewarns them of a time of judgement was begun, and going on upon the house of God, such as they had not yet felt; who yet Heb. 10. 32, 33, 34. had suffered reproach and spoiling of their goods (as Peter writes to the same Jews) hereupon Peter pertinently instructs them to commit the keeping of their souls unto God. At ⟨p. 41⟩death you know it is that when mens bodies are destroyed, and so the season when their souls to be separated therefrom should be committed to Gods care; as our Darling (as our Translation) or lovely soul,1 when separate (as others) as Christ in David speaks, Ps. 22. And Peter had in his eye Christ example, and pointed them thereunto, who at his death committed his separate Soul or Spirit into the hands of God, Luke 23. 46. and the word commit is one and the same in both these places:2 only there is this difference, that whereas Christ says, Father I commit, Peter substitutes another title of Gods (there being more than one Relation moving God, and strengthening our Faith to this) even of faithful creator. And I understand not the first creation only or chiefly here meant by Peter; but the second creation chiefly (which brings into repute and acceptation with God the first again together with its own) and so God is thereupon engaged to be faithful in his care and provision for such souls, according to his promises: And faithfulness doth always respect and refer unto Promises;