A state of glory for spirits of just men upon dissolution, demonstrated. A sermon…

And judge of this in the light of all that Reason we have hitherto carried along; and again, let this inference of the Apostle mutually serve to confirm us in all that Reason. For poor Abraham to be driven out of his own Country by God, who called him to his foot, and said no more, but as a Master to his Servant, Take your Cloak, and follow me (who must presently, without more ado, trig and foot it after his Master) as Isa 41. 2. and then to live a stranger in the Land of Promise, upon the faith, that God would be his God: which faith in him was also to cease when he came to die. If this God in this case should not have taken care to answer his faith in some greater way, in stead of the possession of Canaan; and that after, upon his being turned ⟨p. 48⟩out of that Country too, which he sojourned in during this life, if God had not provided another House, or Country, or City for his soul, that was to live, to bring it into, when it should be deprived of all in this world; The Apostle tells us, God (in this case) would have been ashamed to have been called his God: which now, having provided so abundantly for him upon dying, there is superabundant cause to say, God is not ashamed; for that is a diminutive, implying, That he infinitely exceedeth that their expectation could be supposed to be.

And judge of this in the light of all that Reason we have hitherto carried along; and again, let this inference of the Apostle mutually serve to confirm us in all that Reason. For poor Abraham to be driven out of his own Country by God, who called him to his foot, and said no more, but as a Master to his Servant, Take your Cloke, and follow me (who must presently, without more ado, trig and foot it after his Master) as Isa 41. 2. and then to live a stranger in the Land of Promise, upon the faith, that God would be his God: which faith in him was also to cease when he came to die. If this God in this case should not have taken care to answer his faith in some greater way, in stead of the possession of Canaan; and that after, upon his being turned ⟨p. 48⟩out of that Country too, which he sojourned in during this life, if God had not provided another House, or Country, or City for his soul, that was to live, to bring it into, when it should be deprived of all in this world; The Apostle tells us, God (in this case) would have been ashamed to have been called his God: which now, having provided so abundantly for him upon dying, there is superabundant cause to say, God is not ashamed; for that is a diminutive, implying, That he infinitely exceedeth that their expectation could be supposed to be.