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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
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Let us but view the force of this inference of the Apostle's (and so of all the reasonings hitherto read) But according to man, or what is found amongst men, (and God will be sure infinitely to surpass men in his ways of favour.) Take an ordinary friend, if his friend be turned out of house and home, plundered, banished, driven out of all, as the Steward in that parable, Luk. 16. was, and comes to his Friend at midnight, as in that other Parable, Luk. 11. 5, 6. will not his friends entertain him into their houses; as ver. 9, of Luk. 16. yea, and rise at midnight to do it, as ver. 5, 6. in that Parable of Luk. 11. Shall profession of friendship engage and oblige men to do this, and shall not God's professing himself to be our God, Father, Friend, engage his heart much more? Nay, will he not so entertain them, as shall exceed all wonderment? What need I say more than this? Wherefore He is not ashamed to be called their God: He will therefore give you an entertainment that shall be worthy of his being your God.
Let us but view the force of this inference of the Apostle's (and so of all the reasonings hitherto read) But according to man, or what is found amongst men, (and God will be sure infinitely to surpass men in his ways of favour.) Take an ordinary friend, if his freind be turn'd out of house and home, plundred, banished, driven out of all, as the Steward in that parable, Luk. 16. was, and comes to his Friend at midnight, as in that other Parable, Luk. 11. 5, 6. will not his friends entertain him into their houses; as ver. 9, of Luk. 16. yea, and rise at midnight to do it, as ver. 5, 6. in that Parable of Luk. 11. Shall profession of friendship engage and oblige men to do this, and shall not God's professing himself to be our God, Father, Friend, engage his heart much more? Nay, will he not so entertain them, as shall exceed all wonderment? What need I say more than this? Wherefore He is not ashamed to be called their God: He will therefore give you an entertainment that shall be worthy of his being your God.