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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.
1. He tells us there of an inward man renewed, whilest the outward is a perishing, to the end it may live and ⟨p. 65⟩subsist alone, when the body is wholly dissolved; (there he layes his Foundation) And is not this all one with what the Text sayes? 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.