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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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Yea, give me leave upon the same ground, and by the like reason, further to say, That all the material Fire in Hell, by which the Soul shall and will suffer by way of a Compatibility (as it is termed) or suffering by and with the Body an ⟨p. 101⟩unspeakable Torment; and this for the Sins a Man is guilty of: yet these Flames nor these Punishments (taken materially, and abstracted from this Revelation of God's Wrath) would not break into Conscience; not until God did therewithal break in with the Fire of his Wrath, and make the Conscience and intellectual Spirit of the Mind a fiery Oven within it self, as the Psalmist expresseth it in Psal. 21. 9. almost in these very words.
This being the state of matters between God, the Judg of all, and the Souls and Consciences of Sinners, as touching that due and equitable Punishment for Sin, and the execution thereof, which Mens Souls are capable of: I shall now complete the reason, why the Justice of God should move him to be willing; yea, and that there is in respect unto Divine Justice a kind of requisiteness (if not necessity) for the Great God to take this course to punish the Sinner, by the Revelation of his own immediate Wrath. And this I shall do, by gathering together what hath been said, from which the Arguments for both these two Assertions that follow, lie fair.
This being the state of matters between God, the Judg of all, and the Souls and Consciences of Sinners, as touching that due and equitable Punishment for Sin, and the execution thereof, which Mens Souls are capable of: I shall now compleat the reason, why the Justice of God should move him to be willing; yea, and that there is in respect unto Divine Justice a kind of requisiteness (if not necessity) for the Great God to take this course to punish the Sinner, by the Revelation of his own immediate Wrath. And this I shall do, by gathering together what hath been said, from which the Arguments for both these two Assertions that follow, lie fair.