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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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Nor yet is the phrase of terming Heaven A City-house, remote neither: for Heb. 11. ver. 13. Abraham and the Patriarchs died in faith, (Mark that!) in faith or expectation of what? He had told us, ver. 10. He looked for a City whose Builder is God. What is a City, but an aggregation and heap of houses and Inhabitants? Multitudes had died afore Abraham, and gone to Heaven, from Adam, Abel, Seth, downwards; and God promiseth him peace at his death, and a being gathered to those fathers, Gen. 15. 15. There was then a City built, and already replenished with Inhabitants; and amongst others, an house provided for him, that is, his Soul built of God, and ready furnished against this removal.
Nor yet is the phrase of terming Heaven A City-house, remote neither: for Heb. 11. ver. 13. Abraham and the Patriarchs died in faith, (Mark that!) in faith or expectation of what? He had told us, ver. 10. He looked for a City whose Builder is God. What is a City, but an aggregation and heap of houses and Inhabitants? Multitudes had died afore Abraham, and gone to Heaven, from Adam, Abel, Seth, downwards; and God promiseth him peace at his death, and a being gathered to those fathers, Gen. 15. 15. There was then a City built, and already replenish'd with Inhabitants; and amongst others, an house provided for him, that is, his Soul built of God, and ready furnished against this removal.
Verse 2.
For in this we groan earnestly, desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven.