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A brief discourse of justification. Wherein this doctrine is plainly laid down according to…
A brief discourse of justification. Wherein this doctrine is plainly laid down according to the Scriptures. : As it was delivered in several sermons on this subject. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [Ten lines of quotations]
Boston: printed by S for Samuel Phillips, 1686
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1. If it shall be your infelicity then to fall under a Sentence of Condemnation, it had been better for you that you had never been born: everlasting punishment will be the certain fruit of it, Mat. 25. ult. These shall go into everlasting punishment, i. e. those that shall then be found under guilt, and who can tell what that punishment contains in it? it put the Son of God into an agony, and made the man Christ to sweat clods of congealed blood to be called to enter into these lists, is made his Soul sorrowful unto the death; and shall sinners who shall be made to feel all this be better able to endure it? those doleful shrieks, and everlasting lamentations of cursed Sinners, condemned to the bottomless •it, and cast into that burning Lake of Fire and Brimstone, are doubtless to be avoided with utmost care and solicitude, by all such as have the happy advantage put into their hands so to do: and what man is there, who is in his right mind, that would not be an seriously careful so seek after an escape from ⟨p. 122⟩the dint of such a Sentence, as will bind him over, and expose him to an eternal separation from the glorious presence of God, and endless suffering the merciless impressions of his inflamed fury, in that place which is on purpose prepared for the triumphs of divine vengeance over the children of perdition: and this, and nothing short of this, is the inevitable consequence of the Judgment upon all such whose Case shall be found not to be good.
1. If it shall be your infelicity then to fall under a Sentence of Condemnation, it had been better for you that you had never been born: everlasting punishment will be the certain fruit of it, Mat. 25. ult. These shall go into everlasting punishment, i. e. those that shall then be found under guilt, and who can tell what that punishment contains in it? it put the Son of God into an agony, and made the man Christ to sweat clods of congealed blood to be called to enter into these lists, is made his Soul sorrowful unto the death; and shall sinners who shall be made to feel all this be better able to endure it? those doleful shrieks, and everlasting lamentations of cursed Sinners, condemned to the bottomless •it, and cast into that burning Lake of Fire and Brimstone, are doubtless to be avoided with utmost care and sollicitude, by all such as have the happy advantage put into their hands so to do: and what man is there, who is in his right mind, that would not be an seriously careful so seek after an escape from