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The Everlasting Punishment of the Ungodly, Illustrated and Evinced to Be a Scripture Doctrine
The Everlasting Punishment of the Ungodly Illustrated and Evinced to Be a Scripture Doctrine Author:Stephen Johnson Subtitle: And the Salvation of All Men, as Taught in Several Late Publications, Confuted; in a New Arrangement of the Subject in Dispute, in Three Parts General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1786 Original Publisher: Printed by Timothy Green Subjects: Future punishment Universalism Salvation Religion / Chris... more »tian Theology / General Religion / Christian Theology / Eschatology Religion / Christian Theology / Soteriology Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: " there (hall be wee"pirig and gnafhing of teeth, when ye fhail fee Abraham,- and liiiac, and Jacob, and all the prophets in the kirigdom of God; and you yourfelves thruft out." Nor can they be faved by any gofpel means df falvation whatever; for thefe are enjoyed only in the kingdom of Chrift : but thefe " children of the kingdom fhall be caft out, into outer darknefs : there fhall be weeping and gnafhing of teeth,''| t Mat. 8. 12. they never were " children of the kingdom," only by the means and privileges of it. The calling them out muft furely mean, a total deprivation of them'; nothing lefs can be intended.- So that ' gofpel means of falvatkm fhall never pafs upon them" as they teach. "Their caftingout, is followed with outer dark- rtefs;" as contrafted with the enjoyment of thefe means. And are coriftgne'd to " the blacknefs of darknefs forever." Jude 13. If this alfo be contrafted with " gofpel light which now fhines td the world/' they perifh without a gleam of comfort or hope; or a ray of inftruction out of it: for' nothing lefs can come up to this defcription. This muft fix their pUnifhment as lafting || The wicked ate fo' perfonally defcribed aftd charafterifcd ili thefe two tali mentioned texts itt Luke and IvJatth...« less