A65285:1850
A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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2. Q. Why there must be this House of Bondage, why an Hell? Resp. Because there must be a place for the Execution of Divine Justice: Earthly Monarchs have their Prison for Malefactors, and shall not God have his? Sinners are Criminal Persons, they have offended God, and it would not consist with Gods Holiness and Justice, to have his Laws infringed, and not appoint Penalties for the Transgressors.
2. Q. Why there must be this House of Bondage, why an Hell? Resp. Because there must be a place for the Execution of Divine Justice: Earthly Monarchs have their Prison for Malefactors, and shall not God have his? Sinners are Criminal Persons, they have offended God, and it would not consist with Gods Holiness and Justice, to have his Laws infring'd, and not appoint Penalties for the Transgressors.
3. The Dreadfulness of this place: Could you but for one hour hear the Groans and Shrieks of the Damned, it would confirm you in this Truth, that Hell is an House of Bondage: Hell is the Emphasis of Misery: Besides the Poena damni, the Punishment of Loss, which is the Exclusion of the Soul from the glorified sight of God, which Divines think the worst part of Hell. I say besides this, there will be Poena Sensus, the Punishment of Sense. If when Gods Wrath is kindled but a little, and a spark of it flies into a Mans Conscience in this Life, it is so terrible (as in the case of Spira) then what will Hell it self be? That I may describe this House of Bondage.
3. The Dreadfulness of this place: Could you but for one hour hear the Groans and Shreaks of the Damned, it would confirm you in this Truth, that Hell is an House of Bondage: Hell is the Emphasis of Misery: Besides the Poena damni, the Punishment of Loss, which is the Exclusion of the Soul from the glorified sight of God, which Divines think the worst part of Hell. I say besides this, there will be Poena Sensus, the Punishment of Sense. If when Gods Wrath is kindled but a little, and a spark of it flies into a Mans Conscience in this Life, it is so terrible (as in the case of Spira) then what will Hell it self be? That I may describe this House of Bondage.