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Two discourses I. of the punishment of sin in hell, demonstrating the wrath of…
Two discourses I. of the punishment of sin in hell, demonstrating the wrath of God to be the immediate cause thereof : II. proving a state of glory for just men upon their dissolution / by Tho. Goodwin ...
London: printed by J.D. for Jonathan Robinson, 1693
A DISCOURSE OF THE Punishment of Sin in HELL: DEMONSTRATING That th… › Chapter 5
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But that it was God's own immediate hand, is more plainly by himself expressed, ver. 16. Thy Terrors have cut me off, and ver. 15. while I suffer thy Terrors, I am distracted, and ready to dye from my Youth up (as in the same verse) Thy Terrors, so he termeth them (he speaking to God) or the Terrors [of Thee] that is, first, From Thee efficiently, and from thy hand setting them on. And 2. Of Thee as arising 1in me from and with dreadful apprehensions and thoughts of Thee (objectively,) and of Thy sore displeasure represented to my Soul, by Thee. And so God's Terrors, are every way, set forth in distinction, from distresses, from Creatures, or such as are made mediately by or from Creature-afflictings; although they also be from God. Thus in like Phrase of Speech it is appositely said, 1 Pet. 3. 14. Be not afraid of their Terror, he speaks it of Men that were Persecutors, and threatened the Saints. [Their Terror] objectivè; That is, The Terror of them, or that Terror which the apprehension of their Power, Greatness, Strength, Threatenings, &c. may possibly work in you. In a like Sense thy Terror here is spoken of God. And the other great Apostle speaking of this ultimate Punishment of Hell, he in like Phrase, termeth it, The ⟨p. 63⟩Terror of the Lord, 2 Cor. 5. 11. That is, that Terror which is peculiar and proper to him, in and to the Souls of Men, who is the terrible God (as he stiles himself in Moses) and says Nahum, Who can abide, or, stand in the fierceness of his Anger?
But that it was God's own immediate hand, is more plainly by himself expressed, ver. 16. Thy Terrors have cut me off, and ver. 15. while I suffer thy Terrors, I am distracted, and ready to dye from my Youth up (as in the same verse) Thy Terrors, so he termeth them (he speaking to God) or the Terrors [of Thee] that is, first, From Thee efficiently, and from thy hand setting them on. And 2. Of Thee as arising 1in me from and with dreadful apprehensions and thoughts of Thee (objectively,) and of Thy sore displeasure represented to my Soul, by Thee. And so God's Terrors, are every way, set forth in distinction, from distresses, from Creatures, or such as are made mediately by or from Creature-afflictings; although they also be from God. Thus in like Phrase of Speech it is appositely said,