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

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Let us consider them, next, jointly, that is, as they are in such a manner wrought apart, so as to suit and match one the other, when brought together in that manner, as it must be said of them. [For this thing hath God wrought us] Yea, and therein it is he hath appeared to be the Great God.

Let us consider them, next, joyntly, that is, as they are in such a manner wrought apart, so as to suit and match one the other, when brought together in that manner, as it must be said of them. [For this thing hath God wrought us] Yea, and therein it is he hath appeared to be the Great God.

For therein, even to wonderment, doth the Glory of God in his works appear, and that he is wise in counsel, and wonderful in working, when he hath hiddenly contrived one thing for another, when as each are in themselves, and apart glorious. It is said by David of himself (and it is true of all men in their measure) Psal. 139. 15. I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth; that is, in my mothers womb, as the context shows; which are termed the Lower parts of the earth, as when Christ is said, Eph. 4. to have ⟨p. 55⟩descended into the lower part of the earth; that is, to be conceived in the womb of a Virgin; when a child is born, a lump of flesh, animated with a soul comes forth, curiously wrought, &c. but wrought, for what? in Davids person (in which this was spoken) it was for a Kingdom, the supremest condition of enjoyments in this World. But in every other man (that is born) it is that he was curiously wrought, in a fitness and capacity to all things that are in this world, made and prepared exactly for it long afore it came into the world; you may see it in Adam (our first pattern) more lively. God was busy for six days in making this world, the Angels all that while stood wondering with themselves, to what end,