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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§. VII.
The last Head of Demonstrations: That it is a falling into the Hands of the Living God: and what that further super adds to the dreadfulness of this Punishment.
The fifth and last Head, which represents the dreadfulness of all this unto an infinity, is, that it is a falling into the Hands [of the living God,] The living God. The former exaggerations have been raised from falling into the Hands of the Great, Powerful, Just and Avenging God; but this further, of the Living God. Which of all other Attributes, the Apostle hath singled forth to set out the dreadfulness of it by, and is therefore most of all to be heeded by us; as having as much weight in it, to the thing in Hand, as any of the other. [The Living God] notes out, not only God's Activity, and how the whole of his Life and Being is engaged and active in this Punishment (as was noticed) ⟨p. 192⟩But further, both, that, 1. He shall execute this to Eternity, and 2. That during that whole space of Eternity, he will permanently continue, to inflict it. His being the Living God notes out 1. Eternity, 2. With a continuation of acting all that while: And so his being the Living God, both threatens and effecteth, 1. an eternal, and 2. a continual Death in those that are the Subjects thereof. And to imply so much it is, that he hath that Denomination specially and so eminently given him here, when this Punishment is spoken of.
THe fifth and last Head, which represents the dreadfulness of all this unto an infinity, is, that it is a falling into the Hands [of the living God,] The living God. The former exaggerations have been raised from falling into the Hands of the Great, Powerful, Just and Avenging God; but this further, of the Living God. Which of all other Attributes, the Apostle hath singled forth to set out the dreadfulness of it by, and is therefore most of all to be heeded by us; as having as much weight in it, to the thing in Hand, as any of the other. [The Living God] notes out, not only God's Activity, and how the whole of his Life and Being is engaged and active in this Punishment (as was noticed)