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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79466	Hell, with the everlasting torments thereof asserted. Shewing 1. Quod sit, that there is such a place. 2. Quid sit, what this place is. 3. Ubi sit, where it is. Being diametrically opposite to a late pamphlet, intituled, The foundation and pillars of Hell discovered, searched, shaken, and removed. For the glory of God, both in his mercy and justice, the comfort of all poor believing souls, and the terrour of all wicked and ungodly wretches. Semper meditare Gehennam. / By Nich. Chevvney, M.A.	Chewney, Nicholas, 1609 or 10-1685.	1660 (1660)	Wing C3805; Thomason E1802_2; ESTC R209913	50,666	128

obedience of God for God cannot be said either to obey or suffer but by his favour by the obedience testified both by the Action and Passion of that one person which was God and Man many are made righteous For the Apostle there used the term man not understanding thereby hominem merum meere man sed hominem verum but true man It was fit that the Redeemer of man should be true man in regard of the justice of God vvhich could not punish sinne but in that nature which had offended It was fit also that he should be more then man in regard of the heavy burden of Gods wrath which vvas to be sustained by him The righteousness of vvhom by vvhich we are constituted righteous is therefore by the communication of properties saith Downam called the righteousness of God being the righteousness of that person which is God as vvell as man It is not the obedience of the God-head no nor the obedience of the Man-head but the obedience of Christ our Mediator considered as God and Man by which vve are made righteous I cannot but by the vvay lament the growth and insinuation of this pestilent Heresie of Socinianism vvhich under pretence of giving glory to Christ doth rob him of all that true glory that belongs unto him It will allow him to be a holy a thrice holy man an unreproachable an irreprehensible an admirable an incomparable man a man to whom he that should equal any other man were worse then a Devil A man worthy to be called God in a farre higher sense then any Magistrate any King any Prophet But yet he was no God saith this Heresie and these Hereticks no Son of God A Redeemer by way of example but no Redeemer by way of equivalent satisfaction S. Paul saies Ephe. 2.12 He is an Atheist that is without Christ And he is as much an Atheist still that pretends to receive Christ and not as God for if the receiving of Christ must redeem him from being an Atheist there can no other way be imagined but by receiving him as God for that onely and no other good opinion of Christ overcomes and removes his Atheism After the great day whatsoever is not Heaven is Hell He that then shall be where the Son is now if he be not in Heaven shall be as far from heaven as if he were where the Center of the Earth is now He that confesses not all Christ confesses no Christ And this is the wickedness that keeps down Anonymus and the rest of that Heretical brood that they cannot will not be raised up to the consideration of Christ as God But we proceed 3. The serious meditation of this Doctrine doth restrain wicked men from their impieties Oderunt peccare mali formidine poenae Bad men for fear of pain do ill detest The Apostle Rom. 2.4 saith The goodness of God leadeth to repentance and well are they that will be led But some there are that will not lead with whom there is another course to be taken such must be driven on whether they will or no. John Baptist Mat. 3.2 proposed the goodness of God as a special argument to perswade his Hearers to repentance do it repent and the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand hard by you One would think this would have done it have even led them to it but it stirred them not He is fain to lay Heaven by and the life joy glory to come And to betake himself to Hell to the anguish tribulation torments there for all these are in the eighth verse under those words the wrath to come so to drive them if it may be to it since leading would not serve the turn How strangely doth sinne besot men that the Kingdom of Heaven works not so kindly with them as doth the wrath to come The loss of Heaven if that were all would never restrain any from it if no Ira ventura wrath to come they would never care for the loss of Heaven Repent or you lose Heaven alas this works not any change or alteration Repent or you must to Hell the place of endless and easeless torments that bites soon This doth strike fear in their hearts and that fear bringeth forth repentance So that this fear even the fear of punishment is good though it be ignorantly condemned by some 'T is true that the Apostle saith Rom. 8.15 That the Sons of God have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear but the spirit of adoption whereby they cry Abba Father The spirit of Bondage is inferior to the spirit of Adoption yet that spirit is better then the spirit of Belial or that spirit of slumber which the Prophet mentions Isai 29.10 whereby mens eyes are closed up that thy cannot see the judgments of the Lord. It is a Maxime that actio perfecta non recipitur nisi imperfectè primo there is no perfect action but at first it is imperfect and is perfected by degrees It is a good thing to be a Son yet it is better to be a Servant A door-keeper in the house of God then to dwell in the Tents of ungodliness It is good to be in Canaan the Land of promise but in the mean time it is better to be in the Wilderness then in Aegypt So fear and spare not sayes S. August for Sinondum potes amore justitiae at timore poenae Do it if it be not for love of goodness yet for fear of punishment his ground is out of Deut. 5.29 O that there were in them saith God such an heart that they would fear me and keep my Commandements Nothing brought the Jews to the love of God but the terrour they conceived of his judgements which they visibly saw before their face yet God wished that they might have such an heart in them alwayes that they would so fear him which for ought I can perceive from that place was but a servile fear procured by the terrible sights at the delivery of the Law There is no fear of God then though it have some servility in it so farre as servility imports but a fear of punishment but is good for timor est amor inchoativus saith S. August The love of God begins in fear and then amor est timor consummatus The fear of God ends in love God presents to us the joyes of Heaven often thereby to allure us but we have seen how coldly we are affected towards them and therefore as often the torments of Hell thereby to terrifie us from the evill of our wayes Gehennae timor regni nos affert coronam even the fear of hell gets us heaven and we thank that pain which gives us sight Though there may be difference between timor tremor Fear and Terror yet the difference is not so great but that they may both be found in and fall upon the best of men When God talked with Abraham a horror of darkness saies that Text Gen. 15.12 fell upon him The Father