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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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Thou Saint, be content TO LIVE, for whilst thou livest, thou art under Gods working, in order unto Glory. Value life; 'tis a season of being wrought upon: And to be sure, thou shalt live no longer, than whilst God is some way or other a working this. What an advantage is it, that all thy sins, occasioned by living long, shall surely be forgiven, and nothing of thy score be uncut off for thee, but all the righteousness that is wrought upon thee, and wrought by thee, (and therefore wrought by thee, because upon thee; for, being wrought upon, 1we work, and all is rather, God hath wrought us, than that we have wrought) All thy righteousness (I say) shall remain for ever. 2All the time thou remainest in this life, thy Soul is ripening, or maturing for Glory.
- 1Acti agimus.
- 22 Cor. 9. 9.
How great a comfort is that? in explicating the Doctrinal part, I gave instance of a Child in the Womb curiously wrought all that time,