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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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Now the Scriptures of the New Testament do improve this relation of Gods unto us, unto two inferences drawn from Abraham's instance: whereof the one is the point afore us.
Now the Scriptures of the New Testament do improve this relation of Gods unto us, unto two inferences drawn from Abrahams instance: whereof the one is the point afore us.
The first is Christs inference from thence, That ⟨p. 46⟩therefore Abraham's soul lives, and Abraham both soul and body shall rise again, for God is not the God of the dead, but of the living, Matth. 22. 31. Thus Christ.
The first is Christs inference from thence, That ⟨p. 46⟩therefore Abrahams soul lives, and Abraham both soul and body shall rise again, for God is not the God of the dead, but of the living, Matth. 22. 31. Thus Christ.
2. Paul's collection from the same Promise, is, that God had provided in the mean time for Abraham's soul afore the Resurrection, a City, and an House therein for him. Thus Heb. 11. 16. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he hath prepared for them a City. To give light to this, Paul had represented the story and case of Abraham, and the rest of the Patriarchs, in the verses afore, to have been this; That God had indeed promised the Land of Canaan to him and them, ver. 8, 9. whereupon, ver. 13. it is said, That these all died in faith, not having received the promises, being strangers in the land; yea, not having a foot of land in the Land of Promise, as Stephen speaks,