This is a speciall season for God to shew his love to such a soul, if ever afore or after, an opportunity, such as falls not out, neither afore, whilest it was in the body; nor after, when it is united to the body again, at the Re∣surrection: if ever therefore he means to shew a re∣spect unto a poor soul, which is his so neer kindred and alliance, it must be done now. We read in the 73. Ps. 26. My flesh and my heart faileth (as at death to be sure it doth) but God is the strength of my heart, both in this life and at death to support me [and my portion for ever] in the life to come without any interruption or vacant space of time, as that [ever] imports: and that David spake this with an eye unto the Glory to come, when Heart, and Flesh, and all in this world he fore∣saw would fail him, is evident by what he had imme∣diately meditated in the words afore, v. 24. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, so in this life, and afterwards (that being ended) shall receive me unto glory. The con∣templation whereof makes him cry out again, v. 25.
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.
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- 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.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A85440.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2025.
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Whom have I in heaven but thee? for all things else will fail me one day, when my flesh utterly fails me also: And There is none upon earth (where he had at present many comforts and comforters) in comparison OF THEE. You see God is the portion of the whole of his time, e∣ven for ever, as v. 26. and his estate in heaven & earth di∣vide that time & portion between them, and no middle state between both, but when the one ceaseth the other begins, for between them two must be the [for ever] & when all faile him which he had on earth, then God a∣lone becomes his happinesse in heaven. But this onely in generall shews what God is and will be to a soul in this condition.