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The fading of the flesh and flourishing of faith, or, One cast for eternity…
The fading of the flesh and flourishing of faith, or, One cast for eternity with the only way to throw it well : as also the gracious persons incomparable portion / by George Swinnock ...The fading of the flesh and flourishing of faith, or, One cast for eternity with the only way to throw it vvell : as also the gracious persons incomparable portion / by George Swinnock ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1662
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Sin, though it be finite in regard of the subject, as being the act of a limited creature;1 yet its infinite in regard of the Object, as being committed against a boundless Creator; therefore its punished with the absence of all good, which is an infinite loss; and the presence of all evil, which is infinite in duration, though not in intension, because of the incapability of the sinner. The infernal pit is the place of those punishments, into which by the ladder of death men descend, Matth. 7.23. and 25.41. Mark 9.49. Death is but the sinners trap door into Hell. The English capital malefactors when cast are carried into a Dungeon, and from thence to the Gallows. Ungodly men being cast by the Law of God, and not suing out their pardon from the Gospel (which is an office set up for that purpose) do go through the Dungeon of death, to the place of their dreadful and everlasting execution.
Sin, though it be finite in regard of the subject, as being the act of a limited creature;1 yet its infinite in regard of the Object, as being committed against a boundless Creator; therefore its punished with the absence of all good, which is an infinite loss; and the presence of all evill, which is infinite in duration, though not in intension, because of the incapability of the sinner. The infernal pit is the place of those punishments, into which by the ladder of death men descend, Matth. 7.23. and 25.41. Mark 9.49. Death is but the sinners trap door into Hell. The English capital malefactors when cast are carried into a Dungeon, and from thence to the Gallows. Ungodly men being cast by the Law of God, and not suing out their pardon from the Gospel (which is an office set up for that purpose) do go through the Dungeon of death, to the place of their dreadful and everlasting execution.