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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.
First, consider thy Soul is an immortal Soul, as to the duration of it: and that this Great God is the Living God. And Sin in thee and the Injury of it to God is an eternal Stain, which Hell Fire cannot eat out, or satisfy God for, but in an Eternity of time. And therefore whilst God lives, and thou livest, he will inflict it on thee. That's one meaning.
Again, God's Life, as it is in himself a continual Act, so in its being attributed to him with respect to this Punishment, it imports his continued acting therein without cessation or intermission. For he doth it, as the Living God. Job, whilst he endured the Terrors of the ⟨p. 193⟩Almighty, complains they were so unceasing, that God suffered him not to take Breath, Job 9. 18. he followed his Strokes so thick, with one Breach (as he there speaks) upon another.
Again, God's Life, as it is in himself a continual Act, so in its being attributed to him with respect to this Punishment, it imports his continued acting therein without cessation or intermission. For he doth it, as the Living God. Job, whilst he endured the Terrors of the ⟨p. 193⟩Almighty, complains they were so uncessant, that God suffered him not to take Breath, Job 9. 18. he followed his Stroaks so thick, with one Breach (as he there speaks) upon another.