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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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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, Psal. 11. 6. Mat. 24. 51. whether it be, in blessedness as their Inheritance out of his Love, or Misery as the wages of their Sin. And thus hereby God himself is made the end, and the beginning or terminus, the Alpha and Omega of Souls: to whom be Glory for ever.
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 immediat Hands. And Man's ultimate end, either way, is called their Portion, Psal. 11. 6. Mat. 24. 51. whether it be, in blessedness as their Inheritance out of his Love, or Misery as the wages of their Sin. And thus hereby God himself is made the end, and the beginning or terminus, the Alpha and Omega of Souls: to whom be Glory for ever.