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Of Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost
Of communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, each person distinctly in love, grace, and consolation, or, The saints fellowship with the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, unfolded by John Owen ...Of communion with God the Father, Sonne, and Holy Ghost, each person distinctly in love, grace, and consolation, or, The saints fellowship with the Father, Sonne, and Holy Ghost, unfolded by John Owen ...
Oxford: printed by A. Lichfield for Tho. Robinson, 1657
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.
1. His Vindictive Justice. §. 11
1. His Vindictive Iustice. §. 11
God hath indeed many ways manifested his indignation and anger against sin; so that men cannot but know that it is the Judgement of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death Rom. 1 32. He hath in the Law threatened to kindle a fire in his anger, that shall burn to the very heart of Hell And even in many providential dispensations, his wrath is revealed from Heaven against all the ungodliness of men: Rom. 1. 18. So that men must say that he is a God of Judgement. And he that shall but consider that the Angels for sin were cast from Heaven, shut up under chains of everlasting darkness unto the Judgement of the great day. (The rumour whereof seems to have been spread among the Gentiles, 1whence the Poet makes his Jupiter threaten the inferior rebellions Deities with that punishment.) And how Sodom and Gomorrah were condemned with an overthrow and burned into ashes, that they might be examples unto those that should after live ungodly, 2 Pet. 2. 6. cannot but discover much of Gods Vindictive Justice, and his anger against sin; but far more clear doth this shine into us in the Lord Christ.
God hath indeed many ways manifested his indignation and anger against sinne; so that men cannot but know that it is the Iudgement of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death Rom. 1 32. He hath in the Law threatned to kindle a fire in his anger, that shall burne to the very heart of Hell And even in many providentiall dispensations, his wrath is revealed from Heaven against all the ungodlinesse of men: