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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.
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, Matth. 5.23.
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 stroak; therefore it must be in duration; Infinite power cannot inflict greater or longer paines 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, Matth. 5.23.
1The command of Caius Caligula to the Executioner (after he had condemned a malefactor) was so to strike, that they might feel themselves dying, and endure the pains of an enduring death. Such will be the everlasting death of the damned; they ⟨p. 113⟩will be ever, ever dying, and never dead; they shall seek death, but not find it, follow after it, but it will free from them, Rev. 9.6.
1The command of Caius Caligula to the Executioner (after he had condemned a malefactor) was so to strike, that they might feel themselves dying, and indure the pains of an enduring death. Such will be the everlasting death of the damned; they