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A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written
A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, written by the blessed apostle St. Peter. By Thomas AdamsA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written by the blessed apostle St. Peter. By Thomas Adams
London: printed by Richard Badger and Felix Kyngston for Jacob Bloome, 1633London: printed by Richard Badger and Felix Kyngston for Iacob Bloome, 1633
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
12 Lastly, this equity and equality of damnation to sin, is illustrated and prov•• by the contrary. As Mark. 10.30. every good deed shall have a hundred-fold of comforts: so every bad deed a hundred fold of torments. Gods mercy is for ever to them that please him: so his wrath is for ever upon them that offend him. The faithful find eternal mercy, therefore the unfaithful shall find eternal misery. He that endureth to the end, shall be saved: By what rule or proportion? Because God in his goodness doth presuppose, if that man had continued for ever living, he would have continued for ever well doing. Josiah feared God all the days of his life: therefore God hath Crowned his everlasting life in heaven.x Be thou faithful unto […] death, and I will give thee the Crown of life. Fidelity for a short service, hath a ••• dem of never ending glory. Thus as God in his good mercy doth reward pers•• rance in good with immortal life: so in his just judgement he doth punish imp••• tense with eternal death. Thus is guilty man punished, and the just God cleared, i• this damnation of the wicked: though it be a total, final, (call it what you will) […] extreme, universal, eternal punishment. But to cease preaching of it, and […] praying against it: Spare us good Lord, spare the people whom thou hast redeemed. For […] death of thy eternal Son, let us not be the sons of eternal death. Be not […] with us; or, if we do provoke thee, let not thy anger be for ever. Let not […] wrath burn like fire: but whensoever our sins have kindled it, LORD quenchi•• the blood of CHRIST. Let us not undergo the malignity of one sin, ev•• […] least, the shortest: for it deserves great and eternal torment. Our greatest g••• nesse merits not the least glory: but our least wickedness deserves great pain. A […] leak will sink the vessel unstopped, a great one will not do it, if well called. […] weakest instrument can pierce the flesh, and take away the life, unarmed: […] ⟨p. 479⟩