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The whole-armour of GodThe vvhole-armor of God
The whole-armour of God: or A Christians spiritual furniture, to keep him safe from all the assaults of Satan First preached, and now the second time published and enlarged for the good of all such as well use it:whereunto is also added a treatise of the sin against the Holy Ghost. By William Gouge B.D. and preacher of Gods Word in Black Fryers London. ...The vvhole-armor of God: or A Christians spiritual furniture, to keepe him safe from all the assaults of Satan First preached, and now the second time published and enlarged for the good of all such as well vse it:whereunto is also added a treatise of the sinne against the Holy Ghost. By VVilliam Gouge B.D. and preacher of Gods Word in Blacke Fryers London. ...
London: printed by John Beale, 1619London: printed by Iohn Beale, 1619
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§. 31. Of the answers to the Chiliasts objection, taken from Gods justice.
§. 31. Of the answeres to the Chiliasts obiection, taken from Gods iustice.
Concerning Gods Justice, 1they say that it cannot stand with Justice to punish a temporary sin, a sin which⟨p. 620⟩ was committing in time, with an everlasting punishment.
COncerning Gods Iustice, 1they say that it cannot stand with Iustice to punish a temporary sinne, a sin which⟨p. 620⟩ was committing in time, with an euerlasting punishment.
- 1Object. 2. Unjust to punish a temporary sin eternally.Obiect. 2. Vniust to punish a temporary sin eternally.
But sin though in continuance it were not everlasting,1 yet is it in nature infinite: for the greatness of a sin is measured according to the greatness of the person against whom it is committed. We see in the counts of men that one and the same wrong committed against a mean man, and a Monarch, is accounted less or greater. That which being done against a mean man, will scarce bear an action in Law (as we speak) committed against a King may prove a capital matter, a matter of high treason, and bring a man to the gallows. Now every sin is a transgression of Gods Law, and committed directly against the infinite Majesty; and in that respect it is infinite in nature, and deserveth an infinite punishment. But the creature is finite, and cannot in time bear an infinite weight of vengeance, and therefore it lieth eternally under it. There is then a proportion betwixt the sin of the damned, and their punishment: both are infinite. Sin in quantity and greatness, the punishment in time and continuance: what sin wanteth in continuance, it hath in greatness; and what the punishment wanteth in weight, it hath in continuance. Thus the sin and the punishment are correspondent each to other, and God is just in inflicting an eternal punishment on an infinite sin.