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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.
Add to this, Fourthly, God his being our God, which is more home to the Demonstration of this Point than all the former. The Text says, He that wrought ⟨p. 321⟩us for this, is God. I add, he is your God. And this alone, if we will take the Scriptures verdict, will carry it, and lo, as he is styled The Father of Spirits in common, and yet withal a Father of their Spirits, out of special Love: So in like manner, he is styled both The God of the Spirits of all Flesh, (that is, of Man, 1Job 12. 20.) thus in common; and also to his Elect, I am your God by Grace. And these two Relations, God and Father, are commensurate, and exactly parallel, whether they be applied unto all Men in common, or to the Elect in special, he is termed, The God of the Spirits, and likewise, The Father of the Spirits of all Men: So in common, answerably he is your God, and your Father, by special Grace to his Elect; both which in this latter respect you find yoked hand in hand, Joh. 20. 17. Look how far he is a God of the one, so far a Father also extendeth in the other: And look how far that he is our God, so far reacheth also that he is our Father. If therefore the God of our Spirits, to provide for them because he is our God, then answerably the Father of our Spirits in the like peculiarness, because our Father. And so the proof of this fourth Particular, will add further strength and confirmation ⟨p. 322⟩to that we presented in the former.
Add to this, Fourthly, God his being our God, which is more home to the Demonstration of this Point than all the former. The Text says, He that wrought ⟨p. 321⟩us for this, is God. I add, he is your God. And this alone, if we will take the Scriptures verdict, will carry it, and loe, as he is styled The Father of Spirits in common, and yet withal a Father of their Spirits, out of special Love: So in like manner, he is styled both The God of the Spirits of all Flesh, (that is, of Man,