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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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These things premised, I come to the Argument to be raised out of them, to prove the Point in hand.
First, that Grace or Holiness, because they are immediately wrought in the Soul, that therefore when the ⟨p. 13⟩body dyes the soul shall be taken up into life. That this is a meet and congruous ordination of God, the Scripture it self owns, and seems so to pitch the reason of it, in Rom. 8. 10, 11. And if Christ be in you the body is dead, because of sin: but the Spirit is life, because of righteousness. But if the spirit of him that raised us Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his spirit that dwelleth in you. He gives an account of what is to become hereafter both of the bodies and souls of them in whom Christ is. (1.) First, for the body, that is condemned to die, The body is dead because of sin. By Body I understand the same which he in the 11. verse terms the mortal body to be raised up, which (says he) is dead, that is, appointed to die, as one sentenced to death you term a dead man. And this [because of sin.] It was meet that that first threatening of dying should have some effect to evidence the truth of God therein. Only God is favourable in his ordination in this, that he arresteth but the Body, the less principal debtor. But that (to be sure) shall pay for it: It is appointed to all men once to die, even for men that are in Christ, as this place of the Romans hath it. Then (2.) follows, what remains the soul of such an one when the body dyes. [But] says he, (speaking by way of exception, and contrary fate too) The Spirit is life, because of righteousness. The Spirit is the Soul in contradistinction to the Body. This, when the body dies, is [Life] He says not living only, or immortal; but is swallowed up into life: And why? because of righteousness, which is Christs image; and so preserves, and by Gods ordination upon dying, elevates the soul, which is the immediate and original subject