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

First, in that it is the next and immediate event that Faith ends and determines in, as Death is said to be the end of life. So noting forth, that when Faith ends, this Salvation of the Soul begins and succeeds it. The end of a thing signifies the immediate event, issue, period thereof. As of wicked men it is said, whose end is destruction, Phil. 3. & Heb. 10. last v. Apostasy & unbelief are said to be a drawing back unto perdition. And on the contrary, there Faith is termed a believing to the salvation of the soul: And both note out the final event and consequent of each, and salvation of the soul to be the end of faith, when men continue and go on to believe, until their faith arriveth at, & attaineth this Salvation of the Soul. To this sense also, Rom. 6. 22. You have your fruit in holiness, and the [end] everlasting life. And the Apostle Peter having in the foregoing verses celebrated the fruits and workings of their faith in this life, as in supporting them gloriously under the sorest trials, v. 7. and then sometimes filling their hearts with joy unspeakable and glorious, v. 8. he here at last concludeth with what will be the end or issue of it in that other life, when faith it self shall cease; and what it is that then they shall receive, Receiving (after all this) the end of your faith, the salvation of your souls, [Greek or Hebrew] in the present, by a frequent and usual Enallage of time, being put for the future: for ye shall receive (or being about to receive) to show the certainty of it: that when Faith shall end, you may be sure on't, even of that Salvation (that great Salvation so spoken of by the Prophets, v. 10.) of your souls, which as it hath no end to be put unto it, as Faith hath: so no interruption or space of time to come between (during which your souls should not ⟨p. 28⟩be actually saved) A salvation of your souls singly (whilst through death they shall so exist) as well as of the same souls primarily, and more eminently, when both soul and body shall be reunited.

First, in that it is the next and immediate event that Faith ends and determines in, as Death is said to be the end of life. So noting forth, that when Faith ends, this Salvation of the Soul begins and succeeds it. The end of a thing signifies the immediate event, issue, period thereof. As of wicked men it is said, whose end is destruction,