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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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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. Without Mixture. Hell is a place of pure Justice. In this Life God in Anger remembers Mercy, he mixeth Compassion with Suffering. Deut. 33.25. Asher's shoe was of Iron, but his foot was dipped in Oil. Affliction is the Iron shoe, but Mercy is mixed with it; here is the foot dipped in Oil. But the Torments of the Damned have no mixture, Rev. 14.10. They shall drink of the Wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture. No mixture of Mercy. How is the Cup of Wrath said to be full of mixture, Psal. 75.8. The Wine is red, it is full of mixture: yet in the Revelation it is said to be without mixture? It is full of mixture, that is, it is full of all the Ingredients that may make it bitter. The Worm, the Fire, the Curse of God, all these are bitter Ingredients. It is a Cup mixed; yet it is without mixture, viz. there shall be nothing to afford the least Comfort, no mixture of Mercy; so it is a Cup without mixture. In the Sacrifice of Jealousy, Numb. 5.15. there was no Oil put to it. So in the Torments of the Damned their is no Oil of Mercy to abate their Sufferings.
2. Without Mixture. Hell is a place of pure Iustice. In this Life God in Anger remembers Mercy, he mixeth Compassion with Suffering. Deut. 33.25. Asher's shoe was of Iron, but his foot was dip'd in Oyl. Affliction is the Iron shoe, but Mercy is mixed with it; here is the foot dip'd in Oil. But the Torments of the Damned have no mixture, Rev. 14.10. They shall drink of the Wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture. No mixture of Mercy. How is the Cup of Wrath said to be full of mixture, Psal. 75.8. The Wine is red, it is full of mixture: yet in the Revelation it is said to be without mixture? It is full of mixture, that is, it is full of all the Ingredients that may make it bitter. The Worm, the Fire, the Curse of God, all these are bitter Ingredients. It is a Cup mixed; yet it is without mixture, viz. there shall be nothing to afford the least Comfort, no mixture of Mercy; so it is a Cup without mixture. In the Sacrifice of Jealousy,