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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 7
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CHAP. VII.
A fourth sort of additional Confirmations, drawn from the Harmonies that are between it, and other Divine Truths.
I Shall in the last place cast in some Harmonies, or Congruities and Correspondencies, which this holds, and makes up with other Divine Truths: And in such Harmonies, and Concords, there is much of Reason, at least to confirm, if not demonstrate Truths in Divinity.
1. To begin where I left. Hereby it comes to pass, that as the Souls of Men and other Spirits were immediately made and created by God (who is therefore in a peculiar respect, and with an opposite distinction to the Fathers of our Bodies, said to be the Father of Spirits, and the God of the Spirits of all Flesh) So, that their last termination or end, should be, ⟨p. 112⟩into and by his immediate Hands also: This makes up a congruous and suitable Dispensation. That look, as they receive their first Being from him, likewise they should return to him, as Ecclesiastes speaks, as to their sole and immediate Author and Creator; and so receive from him, as a Father of Spirits their Portion at his immediate Hands. And Man's ultimate end, either way, is called their Portion,