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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 2 › Part 1
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Moses, who in the Old Testament had seen the Glory of God the most immediately of any Man (and was therein a Type of Christ) was thereby made sensible of this very thing, as touching this Punishment; and therefore complains in the very like Language, Psal. 90. Who knows the Power of thine Anger? Lamenting how the generality of Men did not know it, because indeed they knew not God. But We (says the Apostle) have known him, &c.
And 3. Thereupon he further calls this Punishment, [a falling into God's ⟨p. 12⟩Hands.] That very Phrase often notes out immediate Execution: as in ordinary Speech it doth. When a Father or a Master threaten a Child, or a young Servant, already corrected by other Hands at their appointment, yet when either would threaten more severely, they'll say, Take heed how you fall into my hands, or come under my fingers, when they mean to correct them themselves.
And 3. Thereupon he further calls this Punishment, [a falling into God's ⟨p. 12⟩Hands.] That very Phrase often notes out immediate Execution: as in ordinary Speech it doth. When a Father or a Master threaten a Child, or a young Servant, already corrected by other Hands at their appointment, yet when either would threaten more severely, they'l say, Take heed how you fall into my hands, or come under my fingers, when they mean to correct them themselves.
And then 4. That the Apostle thereupon, infers from this the dreadfulness thereof, even from this, It is a fearful thing to fall into the Hands of God. Reason tells us that the soreness of any Torment, the fearfulness of any Death, ariseth from the Power, Force, Violence, or Efficacy of that which is the immediate Agent or Cause inflicting it. As why do we argue burning or dying by Fire, a more terrible Death, in respect of Torment, than drowning in Water? But that Fire, being the immediate Agent or Instrument applied to that Execution, hath a more fierce and violent working than Water hath; which dispatcheth a Man more easily. Now therefore the fearfulness and soreness of this Punishment (and that with difference from that by Creatures, compare for this ver. 28, 29.) being here argued, that it is a falling into God's