by Thomas Goodwin
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And I heard a voice from heaven saying, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.—REV. 14:13.
MY design is to discourse from this text concerning death, which is the shooting the gulf into the separate state of souls. The title of this work aptly describes its content. The bulk of the work is an argument that 2 Corinthians 5 refers to the state of the saints in heaven immediately after death.
Goodwin also exposits Revelation 14:13; John 11:25-26; Romans 8:18.
The discussion of 2 Corinthians 5 can sometimes be technical, but much of this treatise was warm and designed to help believers see the blessedness of God himself, which believers will enjoy for eternity.
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Table of Contents
--------Chapter I: Of the blessedness of a dying believer.
--------Chapter II: That the soul of a believer doth not sleep, or is not in a state of inac...
--------Chapter III: That the souls of believers, immediately after their separation from th...
--------Chapter IV: That the souls of believers do, immediately after the death of the body,...
--------Chapter V: A state of glory for believers upon their dissolution, demonstrated from ...
--------Chapter VI: That the clothing mentioned in the text, 2 Corinthians 5:3, doth import ...
--------Chapter VII: What is meant by the phrase, 2 Corinthians 5:3, of being ‘found naked.’
--------Chapter VII: The words of the text explained, and their coherence with the first and...
--------Chapter IX: The true and eminent grounds of a Christian’s groanings after dissolutio...
--------Chapter X: The positive ground or reason why a Christian desires dissolution is, tha...
--------Chapter XI: That as the soul is the immediate subject of grace, which is a preparati...
--------Chapter XII: The glory unto which the separate soul is received, demonstrated from t...
--------Chapter XIII: Whether the state of glory into which separate souls enter after death...
--------Chapter XIV: A particular enumeration of the glories of that state into which the se...
--------Chapter XV: Of the glories of heaven, and the happiness of glorified saints therein.