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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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4. Original Sin without Repentance exposeth to Hell and Damnation. This is the second Death, Rev. 20.14. Two things in it:
1. Poena Damni: Punishment of Loss; the Soul is banished from the Beatifical Presence of God, in whose Presence is Fullness of Joy.
1. Poena Damni: Punishment of Loss; the Soul is banished from the Beatifical Presence of God, in whose Presence is Fulness of Joy.
2. Poena Sensus: Punishment of Sense; the Sinner feels the scalding Viols of God's Wrath: It is penetrating, abiding, Joh. 3.36. Reserved, 2 Pet. 2.17. If when God's Anger be kindled but a little, and a Spark or two of it flies into a Man's Conscience here in this life, it be so terrible, what then will it be when God stirs up all his Anger? In Hell there is the Worm and the Fire, Mark 9.44. Hell is the very Accent and Emphasis of Misery: There's Judgment without Mercy. O what Flames of Wrath, what Seas of Vengeance, what Rivers of Brimstone, are poured out there upon the Damned! Bellarmine is of Opinion, That one Glimpse of Hell-fire were enough to make the most flagitious Sinner turn Christian; nay, live as an Hermit, a most strict mortified Life. What is all other Fire to this, but painted Fire? Ejus adesse intolerabile, ejus abbess impossibile: To bear it will be intolerable, to avoid it will be impossible. And these Hell-torments are for ever; have no Period put to them,