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Ouranos kai tartaros= heaven and hell epitomized. The true Christian characterized. As also an…
Ouranos kai tartaros= heaven and hell epitomized. The true Christian characterized. As also an exhortation with motives, means and directions to be speedy and serious about the work of conversion. By George Swinnocke M.A. sometime fellow of Balliol College in Oxford, and now preacher of the Gospel at Rickmersworth in Hertfordshire.Ouranos kai tartaros= heaven and hell epitomized. The true Christian characterized. As also an exhortation with motives, means and directions to be speedy and serious about the work of conversion. By George Swinnocke M.A. sometime fellow of Baliol Colledge in Oxford, and now preacher of the Gospel at Rickmersworth in Hertfordshire.
London: printed by E.M. for Tho. Parkhurst, 1659
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.
2. It will be full in regard of duration; all thy sad losses, and all thy sorrowful gains will be for ever; there was nothing else wanting to make thee completely miserable, ⟨p. 112⟩but the everlasting duration of them, and lo here it is; the positive part of thy punishment will be permanent; there the worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched, Mark 9.44. and the privative part also shall be perpetual, thou shalt suffer everlasting perdition from the presence of the Lord, 2 Thes. 1.9. Thou sinnest in thy eternity, and God will make thee suffer in his eternity.
2. It will be full in regard of duration; all thy sad losses, and all thy sorrowful gains will be for ever; there was nothing else wanting to make thee compleatly miserable, ⟨p. 112⟩but the everlasting duration of them, and lo here it is; the positive part of thy punishment will be permanent; there the worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched, Mark 9.44. and the privative part also shall be perpetual, thou shalt suffer everlasting perdition from the presence of the Lord, 2 Thes. 1.9. Thou sinnest in thy eternity, and God will make thee suffer in his eternity.
Thou sinnest against an infinite God, and therefore thy punishment must be infinite; which because it cannot be, in regard of intention, thy back is not strong enough to bear an infinite stroke; therefore it must be in duration; Infinite power cannot inflict greater or longer pains than infinite Justice doth call for. The debt thou owest to the righteousness of God will be ever paying, and never paid, and therefore thou shalt not escape out of that prison, till thou hast paid the uttermost far thing,