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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
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A Fourth Head of Demonstrations: drawn from those Instances both of Good and Bad Men, their having suffered these kind of Terrors in this Life.
A Fourth Head of Demonstrations, is taken from the Instances given both of Good and Bad Men. Which Instances, as I then alleged to prove the immediateness of God's inflicting it: So now I shall from thence present some Inferences of the fearfulness hereof. Do but sit down a little with Job and Heman, who were the Instances of Good Men: ⟨p. 178⟩Or go to that Roll which the Scriptures have recorded of Cain and Judas, and others, or which Ecclesiastical Stories, or present Examples of our Age have afforded, of Men in Horror: weigh and perpend their cries and roarings, and consider what a sad Spectacle such Instances afford.
A Fourth Head of Demonstrations, is taken from the Instances given both of Good and Bad Men. Which Instances, as I then alledged to prove the immediateness of God's inflicting it: So now I shall from thence present some Inferences of the fearfulness hereof. Do but sit down a little with Job and Heman, who were the Instances of Good Men: ⟨p. 178⟩Or go to that Roll which the Scriptures have recorded of Cain and Judas, and others, or which Ecclesiastical Stories, or present Examples of our Age have afforded, of Men in Horror: weigh and perpend their crys and roarings, and consider what a sad Spectacle such Instances afford.
1. Of Good Men: Heman I insisted in afore, and acquainted you with his Complaints as sad as Man can utter: I reserved that of Job, specially for this Place, as I then professed. All the while that he had but Afflictions common to Men; and although he was every way surrounded with them, as being visited with a loathsome Disease, his Body filled with Dolours and Pains, his Children lost, Servants destroyed by Fire from Heaven; his Estate quite gone unto an Extremity of Poverty; his Wife abhorring his Breath, and tempting him to Blasphemy: All this while the Text tells us Chap. 2. 10. That in all this did not Job sin with his Lips, but was quiet and patient, as the Holy Ghost in the New Testament takes notice of him,