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Pillars of salt. An history of some criminals executed in this land, for capital…
Pillars of salt. An history of some criminals executed in this land, for capital crimes. : With some of their dying speeches; collected and published, for the warning of such as live in destructive courses of ungodliness. : Whereto is added, for the better improvement of this history, a brief discourse about the dreadful justice of God, in punishing of sin, with sin. : [Two lines from Deuteronomy]
printed by B. Green for Samuel Phillips, 1699
REFLECTIONS on the Dreadful CASE of Sin Punished With Sin. › Case 1 › Conclusion 4: Conclusion IV.
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.
Conclusion IV.
The Punishment of Sin, does ever proceed from the God, that is offended by Sin; though Sin it self do not so. A Reprobate mind is not made by that God, who is Goodness it self, and who always made all Things very good: And yet this Good God may order the Effects of a Reprobate mind, for to be the punishments of those that have done Evil before Him. We are wisely to Distinguish, between Sin, as it is a Crime, and as it may be the Punishment of a Crime. Now, according to this Distinction, we are certain, That God cannot be the Author of Sin: Ultor peccati non est Author peccati. The Jesuits and Arminians, that Revile us, for Holding that God is the Author of Sin, do but show, that they Resolve to Revile: The Lord Rebuke them▪ No, We all Agree to say, He that cannot Look on ⟨p. 13⟩Iniquity, will not Make Iniquity; He that Hates all the Workers of Iniquity, cannot Himself Work Iniquity. The God that cannot Lye, cannot in any thing Decline, from His own Eternal Rule of Right, nor Incline any of us to Decline from that Rule, Are Sinners given over by God? Never so, but that at the same time it may be said of them, as in Eph. 4.19. They have given themselves over unto Wickedness. Hence is that caution, in Jam. 1.13, 14. Let no man say, when h• is Tempted, I am Tempted of God; for God canno• be Tempted with Evil, neither Tempteth He an man; But every man is Tempted, when he is draw• away of his own Lust, and Enticed. But then we are also certain, That there is no punishment of Sin, but what comes from God. God Act as a Judge, in the punishment of Sin; yea, there are Positive Acts of God about it; It is a Flow of His Crown, in Psal 94.1. O Lord God, T whom Vengeance belongeth. The Revenging of Si is from God; from the Throne of God, from the Hand of God, and not without some Act o the Great God, issue out all those Revenge which testify against the Sins of men.