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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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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 Apostles whole discourse. The Round and Cicle whereof begun at v. 16. of ch. 4. and endeth with my Text; and do you not find it speak (to use the Texts language) the very self-same thing?
And what? Have I been telling you all this while an artificiall 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 Apostles whole discourse. The Round and Cicle whereof begun at v. 16. of ch. 4. and endeth with my Text; and do you not find it speak (to use the Texts 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 ⟨p. 65⟩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.