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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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What this self-same thing should be, ask the first verse and it will tell you, it is That house eternal in the Heavens, a building of God, prepared by him against the time that this earthly house is dissolved. Ask the second verse, it is the same house we groan to be clothed upon with, when the other is pulled down. Ask the fourth verse, and more plainly: It is that life, which succeeds this mortal life the soul now lives in this body, and swallows up all the infirmities thereof. And then here it follows, Even for this self-same thing, &c. So then, if the glory of the separate soul be the subject of any of these verses, then of all, and so of this verse also.
What this self-same thing should be, ask the first verse and it will tell you, it is That house eternall in the Heavens, a building of God, prepared by him against the time that this earthly house is dissolved. Ask the second verse, it is the same house we grone to be clothed upon with, when the other is pulled down. Ask the fourth verse, and more plainly: It is that life, which succeeds this mortall life the soul now lives in this body, and swallows up all the infirmities thereof. And then here it followes, Even for this self-same thing, &c. So then, if the glory of the separate soul be the subject of any of these verses, then of all, and so of this verse also.
And to be sure it cannot be that extraordinary way of entrance into Glory, by such a sudden change, both ⟨p. 7⟩of soul and body into glory, at once, without dissolution should be the self-same thing here aimed at. For it was not the lot of any of those Primitive Christians (of whom the Holy Ghost here speaks this) [He hath wrought us for this thing] that they should be in that manner changed, and so enter into glory: but the contrary. For they all, and all Saints since for these 1600 years, have put off their Tabernacles by death, as Peter did, and speaks of himself, 2. Pet. 1. 14. and therefore the Scripture (or Holy Ghost) foreseeing, as the phrase is,