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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.) The Wrath of God is without Intermission. Hell is an abiding-place, but no resting-place: There is not a Minutes Rest. Outward Pain hath some Abatement: If it be the Stone or Colic, the Patient hath sometimes Ease; but the Torments of the Damned have no Intermission. He that feels God's Wrath, never saith, I have Ease.
(2.) The Wrath of God is without Intermission. Hell is an abiding-place, but no resting-place: There is not a Minutes Rest. Outward Pain hath some Abatement: If it be the Stone or Cholick, the Patient hath sometimes Ease; but the Torments of the Damned have no Intermission. He that feels God's Wrath, never saith, I have Ease.
(3.) The Wrath of God is Eternal. So saith the Text, Everlasting Fire. No Tears can quench the Flame of God's Anger; no, tho we could shed Rivers of Tears. In all Pains of this Life Men hope for a Cessation, the Suffering will not continue long; either the Tormentor dies, or the Tormented: But the Wrath of God is always feeding upon a Sinner. The Terror of Natural Fire is, that it consumes ⟨p. 396⟩what it burns: But this makes the Fire of God's Wrath terrible, that it doth not consume what it burns. Sic morientur damnati ut semper vivunt. Bern. The Sinner shall ever be in the Furnace, after innumerable Millions of Years the Wrath of God is as far from ending as it was at the beginning. If all the Earth and Sea were Sand, and every Thousand Years a Bird should come and take away one Grain of this Sand, it would be a long while ere that vast heap of Sand were emptied; but if after all that time the Damned might come out of Hell, there were some Hope. But this Word Ever breaks the Heart.
(3.) The Wrath of God is Eternal. So saith the Text, Everlasting Fire. No Tears can quench the Flame of God's Anger; no, tho we could shed Rivers of Tears. In all Pains of this Life Men hope for a Cessation, the Suffering will not continue long; either the Tormentor dies, or the Tormented: But the Wrath of God is always feeding upon a Sinner. The Terror of Natural Fire is, that it consumes