The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption, William ... - Adkinshorton.net

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TheiJ^Kentoriom Trice of our
Parti.
tliislife: God forfakes wicked men in this life but in pare only*
he doth not leave wicked men in this lifv." to be as wicked as they
would be ;
bo: as long as they live in this life,hc doth put a bridle
upon their corruptionsanJ by his teftraining grace doth keep them
in, lb tlut th"y cannot be as wicked as elfc ihcy would be; and this is
no fmal favor ofG jd which he doch vouchfatc to reprobates as long
as the^ live in this world ; yea the very devils themfclves as J jng
as tl'.cy
live in this v/orld ("being Spirits ) in tl.c aire, arc not fo for-
Tik'. n o{ God as they Ih.il be at the day of judgementjfor as yet they
arc m^t in hell, but in this aire, and therefore they have not their
full torments as yet; and fo much the very devils themfelves did ac-
-'rdr.lN-.rc knowledge to Chrili, fayinj:, art thou come to torment tu before
r.nh;!ir..riijgfiy^^i
,
(JMat. 8. 29. this Ipetcii impijesa prayer : I pray
thee
\. 29.
t itment us not to theiull, for the time ot our full torment is not
yet till the day of julgcment be come.
Hence I nwy well conclude ;
that the pain oFloG which the
damned do fulfer in h.ll, is of a iar more terrible ua'ure then any
wicked man can feel or apprehend in this life ; bu: how terrible it
i , I am n* t able fully to defer be ^ but in general I may well call it
a total feperation trom Gods favour with ut ariy limitarionof
time : and it is cal'd anEverUfting deftrHciionfrom theprefence of
tie LorJ, 2 7'hef. I. 9.
And yet this pain