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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 1
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.
The Heads themselves, I shall take as I find them in the first of these Scriptures, Heb. 10. 31. First, that God himself, by his own Hands, that is, the power of his Wrath, is the immediate Inflicter of that Punishment or Destruction of Men's Souls in Hell: [It is a falling into the Hands of God.] Secondly, the dreadfulness of that Punishment, inferred and argued there-from; ⟨p. 6⟩It is a [fearful thing] to fall into the Hands of the Living God.
Which two are the Doctrinal parts of this Discourse.
For the first, That God himself is the immediate Inflicter, &c.
For Explication. We must distinguish; how that God performs two parts herein. 1. Of a Judg, to give forth the Sentence by his Authority. 2. Of an Avenger, a party injured and provoked, and, as such, the Inflicter. My scope in this distinction, is, that we may in reading the Scriptures that speak of this Punishment, know how to put a difference, and not transfer the whole of God's Agency in this matter, unto that of sentencing it as a Judg only. And besides that many Scriptures do apart show this distinction, there are some that still carry along with them both these Agencies, or Hand of God, in it together, and yet as distinct; the one under the term of Wrath and Vengeance, the other under the Notion of its being a Judgment, [the Judgment of God, and the Judgment of Hell-Fire]