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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45396	Hagieā theoū krisis Iudgment worthy of God, or, An assertion of the existence and duration of hell torments, in two occasional letters, written several years since / by ... Henry Hammond ; to which is added an accordance of St. Paul with St. James, in the great point of faith and works by the same author.	Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660.	1665 (1665)	Wing H515; ESTC R15162	47,364	178

Dead and Death and Hades delivered up the Dead which were in them and they were judged every Man according to their Workes Here 't is evident that Death and Hades are properly spoken in reference to all that were to be judged according to works and not only to them whose names were written in the Book of Life And so that evacuates the first Answer The second Answer is that they that are not written in that Book shall never suffer such a Death as brings to Hades but shall fall into a worse the second Death But to this I reply that this distinction hath no ground in the text but contrary wise both Death and Hades are equally there said to be destroy'd to all that were under them both whose names are and are not written in the book of life As therefore to the Godly that Death that leads to Hades is destroy'd so equally to the Wicked and then they are both rendred eternall and then the Wickeds being cast into this lake is not cannot be to be destroy'd there but being a lake of fire to be tormented there eternally as is most apparent v. 10. where the Divell was cast into this lake and the beast and the false Prophet said to be there already yet were not annihilated by being cast thither but as it follows shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever That they fall into a worse death I willingly grant and think it usefull to the cause I defend for suppose a Wicked Man whose impiety costs him dear here one of the Divels saddest Martyrs cruciated with the Diseases his Sins have brought on him in an exquisite manner many years and at last either seiz'd on by the hand of Justice and delivered to a wittily tormenting Death or exercised many years with the rack of Stone and Strangury or the like and at last by these horrid miseries his Soul rent from his Body and he continue in Hades many Hundred years and certainly partake of no good in that estate at the utmost but rest from the labours of his former life Can it in this case be said that the second Death is worse then this and yet this second Death defin'd by a swift Annihilation Certainly it cannot Nothing but long continued if not endless Torments can be said worse then those so long continued Torments But whereas it is added that the second Death is absolute and eternall destruction as the scripture elsewhere speaks I reply that the scripture no where speaks so never uses second death of any such thing as annihilation nor ever seems in any other words to say of any wicked man that he shall be annihilated As for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I grant it parallel to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but can see no Argument producible thence that either of them denotes annihilation being both so much more proper to denote Torments and those eternall For the valley of Hinnom 't is known that Children were not burnt to Ashes there but put into hollow brazen vessels and there fryed and scorched a most lingering pain and therefore call'd Tophet from the Timbrels that there us'd to sound to drown the noise of their dismal cryes And for the lake the Text is expresse they that be tormented without intermission Day and Night without cessation for ever and ever And though the valley of Hinnom being on Earth was not a state of of Eternall but temporary punishments yet that is no prejudice for being to take a resemblance from earth and humane punishments where nothing was eternall the most that could be was to take the sharpest and most lingering Torments thereby to expresse those which being most sharp were eternall also Thus much for the Texts of Scripture and phrases therein which seem favourable to the affirmation but duly weighed have not so prov'd Now for the Consideration taken from God's Attributes of Justice and especially of Mercy p. 4. There seem to me to be three weak parts in the arguing First that to those sins which are committed under temptations and infirmities of ours not generally releiv'd by a sufficiency of auxiliary grace God's eternal punishments are suppos'd to be affix'd by them that maintain such punishments of eternal torments Certainly they that thus doe doe amiss and by so doing give great occasion to those that believe them to find other measures for justice in God then those which he hath prescrib'd to men whereas in matters of this nature God is content to be judg'd by our Tribunal and measures Judge I pray you betwixt me and my Vineyard and Are not my wayes equal But they that maintain God's requirings Mic. 6. to be proportion'd to his shewings and the sufficiency of the Divine grace ready for all that will make use of it and therein found the justice of punishing those that do despise or neglect those meanes so liberally and abundantly provided for them by God have given no cause for that exception It is by them on the contrary marked out as an act of superabundant mercy that God forsakes not upon the first refusals and not making use of his grace he is long-suffering and most willing and most ardently labours that all should come to repentance even such as have long resisted his Evangelical methods of rich grace Secondly that weight is laid upon the Temporalness of the sins committed in this world intimating I suppose the unproportionableness of Temporal to Eternal and therein founding an objection against the Justice of those punishments This I suppose is believ'd to have force against those that are wont to answer it by compensating the want of weight in the temporariness of the sin and sinner partly by the eternity of God against whom the sin is committed partly by the preparedness and inclination of the man to sin eternally in case he should live eternally And I shall confess that I have alwaies look'd on those as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 such as the Schools have many not able fully to satisfy humane understanding and have therefore been careful in several writings to offer surer grounds of satisfaction in this matter by laying the weight on the option which is by God given us of eternal blisse on one side as the reward of our Evangelical obedience as on the other of eternal woe on our wilful denying and this finally and obstinately persever'd in which makes it most just that they that resolutely and inexorably make this choice of never so much ill to themselves should have none but themselves to blame for the unhappinesse of their portion Thirdly that God in inflicting punishment is compar'd with man in respect of the compassion supposeable in him to see any the worst man thus afflicted Whereas I conceive God is to be look'd on here only as the Rector of the Universe whose office it is to proceed in the work of Judicature without passion on either side You may see it in a Judge on Earth which if he be a