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The souls cordial in two treatises. I. Teaching how to be eased of the…The souls cordiall in two treatises. I. Teaching how to be eased of the…
The souls cordial in two treatises. I. Teaching how to be eased of the guilt of sin. II. Discovering advantages by Christs ascension. The third volum. / By that faithful labourer in the Lords vineyard Mr. Christopher Love, pastor of Lawrence Jury, London.The souls cordiall in two treatises. I. Teaching how to be eased of the guilt of sin. II. Discovering advantages by Christs ascension. The third volum. / By that faithfull labourer in the Lords vineyard Mr. Christopher Love, pastor of Lawrence Jury, London.
London: printed for Nathaniel Brooke, 1653
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Again, it is said, that they are carried by Angels into Abraham's bosom; Therefore Abraham's bosom must be in Heaven: now certainly the good Angels carry a good soul into Heaven, and the wicked Angels carry a damned soul into hell, and thus you have two Instances, that immediately after death the souls of the Elect go to Heaven.
Againe, it is said, that they are carried by Angells into Abrahams bosome; Therefore Abrahams bosome must be in Heaven: now certainly the good Angells carry a good soule into Heaven, and the wicked Angels carry a damned soule into hell, and thus you have two Instances, that imediatly after death the soules of the Elect goe to Heaven.
A third Instance is in Mat. 22.31, 32. But as touching the Resurrection of the dead, have you not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. Argue from that Instance that therefore Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were living at that time, though not in their bodies, but they were at that time living, if you mark the reason, the reason of that Text was not to prove a Resurrection of the body only, which the Sadducees deny, but also to prove the immortality of the Soul. The Sadducees deny Spirits and Angels too. Acts 23.8. For the Sadducees say that there is no Resurrection, neither Angel nor Spirit, but the Pharisees confess both. Christ doth prove that there shall be a Resurrection of the body, and he likewise proves that ⟨p. 141⟩the soul doth not die when the body dyeth. Indeed there is a quotation that I have read of a learned man that doth make use of this Instance, Gen. 25.8. Then Abraham gave up the Ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people. Abraham was not gathered to his Fathers, nor to be gathered in the grave where his fore-fathers were, how can this be true that the Scripture saith, Abraham was gathered unto his Fathers? yet he was not gathered to his Fathers in God, therefore say Divines, it must be in his Soul, that Abraham went to Heaven as his godly fore-fathers went, that is the meaning of that phrase, to be bound up in the bundle of Life, to go to Heaven as their fore-fathers did. And thus much for particular Instances.