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

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.

2. He then immediately subjoins ver. 17. that All Afflictions (which are nothing else but the Perishings of this outward man) as also All things and dispensations else that do befall us, they are secretly, at work too, all that while; so set to work by God (who works the inner man daily unto such a measure of Grace) and these to work, and by his ordination procure a proportionable weight (for God works all these things in weight and measure) our light affliction works for us a far more exceeding and eternal WEIGHT of glory—as shall in a comely and in the exactest manner answer and suit that curious workmanship on the inward man; and it is observable that the same word for (working) is used in that verse that is used in my Text: but yet these are but outwardly a work, as inferior Artificers or Instruments: Therefore,

2. He then immediately subjoyns ver. 17. that All Afflictions (which are nothing else but the Perishings of this outward man) as also All things and dispensations else that do befall us, they are secretly, at work too, all that while; so set to work by God (who works the inner man daily unto such a measure of Grace) and these to work, and by his ordination procure a proportionable weight (for God works all these things in weight and measure) our light affliction works for us a far more exceeding and eternall WEIGHT of glory—as shall in a comely and in the exactest manner answer and suit that curious workmanship on the inward man; and it is observable that the same word for (working) is used in that verse that is used in my Text: but yet these are but outwardly a work, as inferiour Artificers or Instruments: Therefore,