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The saints delight. To which is annexed a treatise of meditation
The saints delight. To which is annexed a treatise of meditation. / By Thomas Watson, minister of Stephens Walbrook in the city of London. Imprimatur, Edm. Calamy.
London: printed by T.R. & E.M. for Ralph Smith, 1657
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But it may be objected, if there be any material fire in hell, it will ⟨p. 135⟩consume the bodies there? I answer, it shall burn without consuming*, as Moses bush did, Ex. 3.2. The power of God silenceth all disputes. If God by his infinite power could make the fire of the three children not to consume, cannot he make the fire of hell burn and not consume? Austin in his book, de civitate Dei, 2tells us of a strange salt in Sicily, which if it be put in the fire swims; That God which can make salt, contrary to its nature, swim in the fire, can make the bodies of the damned not consume in the fire.
But it may be objected, if there be any material fire in hell, it will ⟨p. 135⟩consume the bodies there? I answer, it shall burn without consuming*, as Moses bush did, Ex. 3.2. The power of God silenceth all disputes. If God by his infinite power could make the fire of the three children not to consume, cannot he make the fire of hell burne and not consume? Austin in his book, de civitate Dei, 2tells us of a strange salt in Sicily, which if it be put in the fire swims; That God which can make salt, contrary to its nature, swim in the fire, can make the bodies of the damn'd not consume in the fire.
- *In rebus sacris mirari non rimari sapientis est. Gerhard de. coena dom.
- 2Aug. lib. 21