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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.
And this carries it yet higher, even to the highest, and gives the most superabundant security and assurance of this thing ⟨p. 341⟩that can be given, and superadds above all the former.
But you will ask me, How I fetch this out of my Text? Thus:
1. You see here are Two Persons expressly named, God [the Father] namely, and the Spirit. That's a Rule, that where the name God, and then some besides other of the Two Persons, Christ or the Spirit, are mentioned therewith, as distinct; There God is put personally (not essentially only) to express the Father. Now here the Spirit, or holy Ghost, is mentioned distinct from God; For it is said, That this God hath given the Spirit; which also Christ so often speaketh of the Father, as I need not insist on it.
1. You see here are Two Persons expresly named, God [the Father] namely, and the Spirit. That's a Rule, that where the name God, and then some besides other of the Two Persons, Christ or the Spirit, are mentioned therewith, as distinct; There God is put personally (not essentially only) to express the Father. Now here the Spirit, or holy Ghost, is mentioned distinct from God; For it is said, That this God hath given the Spirit; which also Christ so often speaketh of the Father, as I need not insist on it.