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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 6
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And as for all other mediate or outward ways of Judgments executed, in which the Wrath of God is revealed from Heaven, but as at the second hand, take the sorest and severest of them that ever ⟨p. 99⟩God executed by Creatures; yea, suppose all of the several kinds of Providential Judgments (I call them such which are executed upon Men in this World afore-hand) which God hath, as Judg of all the World, in his riding Circuit through all Ages since the Fall, revealed his Wrath from Heaven by, against all sorts of Unrighteousness of Men, (as the Apostle speaking of these Judgments says, in Rom. 1. 18.) Suppose, I say, they were let fly upon any one Sinner, all at once, yet would they not reach or touch that Man's Conscience, further than as God should, over and above the efficacy of them, strike the Conscience it self with his anger and displeasure, revealed more or less by himself therewith. And, although in all such Judgments his goings forth are as of a Judg, and he accompanies such Judgments more or less, but as with some ordinary light and glimmerings of an angry Deity; yet his coming as a Judg upon Mens Consciences, at the Day of Wrath, and Revelation of the Righteous Judgment of God (as if he had never revealed his Wrath before) this is another manner of coming, and showing himself a Judg indeed, rendering Indignation and Wrath upon the Souls of Men: And of that Judgment it is, the ⟨p. 100⟩same Apostle in the second Chapter treats, as of that other in the former.
And as for all other mediate or outward ways of Judgments executed, in which the Wrath of God is revealed from Heaven, but as at the second hand, take the sorest and severest of them that ever ⟨p. 99⟩God executed by Creatures; yea, suppose all of the several kinds of Providential Judgments (I call them such which are executed upon Men in this World afore-hand) which God hath, as Judg of all the World, in his riding Circuit through all Ages since the Fall, revealed his Wrath from Heaven by, against all sorts of Unrighteousness of Men, (as the Apostle speaking of these Judgments says, in