A state of glory for spirits of just men upon dissolution, demonstrated. A sermon…

but especially, it were strangest of all, if it should be confined and limited in this place of Peter, wherein this salvation of the soul is set forth for the comfort of such as were to lay down their tabernacles of their bodies for Christ (as this Peter speaks of himself in the next Epistle) and whose faith was then to cease with their lives, whose expectations therefore he would in this case certainly pitch upon that salvation of the soul which was next, which is this of the soul separate. To confirm all which,

That which further invited me to this place, was this phrase [The end of your Faith] especially upon the consideration that he speaks it unto, such Christians, who in those times were (as he foretells, ch. 4. v. 4.) shortly to be martyred, and at present were sorely tried (v. 7. of this Chapter) and in the last verse of the fourth, he thereupon instructeth and exhorteth them to commit their souls (when they come to die) to be kept by God: And so understood in a proper and literal sense, this salvation of their ⟨p. 27⟩souls is in all respects termed The end of their Faith.

That which further invited me to this place, was this phrase [The end of your Faith] especially upon the consideration that he speaks it unto, such Christians, who in those times were (as he foretels, ch. 4. v. 4.) shortly to be martyred, and at present were sorely tried (v. 7. of this Chapter) and in the last verse of the fourth, he thereupon instructeth and exhorteth them to commit their souls (when they come to die) to be kept by God: And so understood in a proper and literall sense, this salvation of their ⟨p. 27⟩souls is in all respects termed The end of their Faith.