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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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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,1 in order to its living and subsisting afterwards in this world. 'Tis a dark place, the Womb which the Child is wrought in; and it lives there in a stifled condition, it cannot breathe, it ⟨p. 70⟩takes nourishment but at the Navel, (a way invented and prepared of God merely for that season) it lies boiling, tossing and tumbling, and sleeping away the most of its time, and gives now and then a faint stirring, to show it is still alive; and it is a life scarce worth the name of life: Well, but all this is a being wrought and fitted to live another, freer, and braver life in this world. And this is your present case, your life is hid, it is to come; all that you find in this world, is but [that God hath wrought you for the self-like thing] And if this Child we spake of should be forced out of the womb afore the due time, it would have the more imperfect life in this world: So here, if you could suppose a Saint should die afore the full birth of his Souls being wrought on—Therefore be content to wait Gods leisure, until your change shall come.
How great a comfort is that? in explicating the Doctrinal part, I gave instance of a Childe in the Womb curiously wrought all that time,1 in order to its living and subsisting afterwards in this world. 'Tis a dark place, the Womb which the Childe is wrought in; and it lives there in a stifled condition, it cannot breathe, it ⟨p. 70⟩takes nourishment but at the Navel, (a way invented and prepared of God meerly for that season) it lies boiling, tossing and tumbling, and sleeping away the most of its time, and gives now and then a faint stirring, to shew it is still alive; and it is a life scarce worth the name of life: Well, but all this is a being wrought and fitted to live another, freer, and braver life in this world. And this is your present case, your life is hid, it is to come; all that you finde in this world, is but [that God hath wrought you for the self-like thing] And if this Childe we spake of should be forced out of the womb afore the due time, it would have the more imperfect life in this world: So here, if you could suppose a Saint should die afore the full birth of his Souls being wrought on—Therefore be content to wait Gods leisure, until your change shall come.