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Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God
Several discourses upon the existence and attributes of God by that late eminent minister in Christ, Mr. Stephen Charnocke ...
London: printed for D. Newman, 1682
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.
1. That […] probable, the world shall not be annihilated but refined. It shall lose its present form and fashion, but not its foundation: Indeed as God raised it from nothing, so he can reduce it into nothing; yet it doth not appear that God will annihilate it, and utterly destroy both the matter and form of it; part shall be consumed, and part purified, 2 Pet. 3.12, 13. The Heavens shall be on fire and dissolved, nevertheless we according to his promise look for a new Heaven and a new Earth. They shall be melted down as Gold by the Artificer, to be refined from its Dross, and wrought into a more beautiful fashion, that they may serve the design of God for those that shall reside therein; a new world wherein Righteousness shall dwell: The Apostle opposing it thereby, to the old world wherein wickedness did reside. The Heavens are to be purged, as the Vessels that held the Sin-offering were to be purified by the fire of the Sanctuary.
1. That 〈…〉 probable, the world shall not be annihilated but refin'd. It shall lose its present form and fashion, but not its foundation: Indeed as God raised it from nothing, so he can reduce it into nothing; yet it doth not appear that God will annihilate it, and utterly destroy both the matter and form of it; part shall be consumed, and part purified, 2 Pet. 3.12, 13. The Heavens shall be on fire and dissolved, nevertheless we according to his promise look for a new Heaven and a new Earth. They shall be melted down as Gold by the Artificer, to be refined from its Dross, and wrought into a more beautiful fashion, that they may serve the design of God for those that shall reside therein; a new world wherein Righteousness shall dwell: The Apostle opposing it thereby, to the old world wherein wickedness did reside. The Heavens are to be purged, as the Vessels that held the Sin-offering were to be purified by the fire of the Sanctuary.
God indeed will take down this Scaffold which he hath built to publish his Glory. As every Individual hath a certain term of its duration; so an end is appointed for th universal nature of Heaven and Earth,