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Show 244 PAIL-3. OF A CHRISTIAN Chap.38. 1'4}! 3. Seren,Devil/, And firit for the Tormenters, wee have their nature, and PW" not Proper perties, exactly and properly delivered by the names of,'Ihc Erie. mmu, but my, or Satan; 7he Ame/er, Appellarivet. or Diaholm, The Deflreyerpr Ahaddon. Which fignificant names, Satan, Devi/l, Ahneldon, fet not forth to us any Individual] perfon, as proper names ufe to doe; but onelyan office, or quality; and are therefore Appellatives; which ought notto have been left untranflated, as they are, in the Latine, and Modern Bibles-7 becaufe thereby they feem to be the proper names of Demons; and men are the more eafily feduced to beleeve the doctrine of Devills; which at that time was the Religion of the Gentiles, and contrary to that ofMofes,and ofChrifi. And becaufe by the Eucmyfihe Ami/er, and Dtflroyer, is meant, the Enemy ofthem that {ball bein the Kingdome of God; therefore if the Kingdome of God after the Reftirrection, bee upon the Earth, (as in the former Chapter Ihave fliewn by Scripture it feems to be,) The Enemy, and his Kingdomemufl be on Earth alfo. For fo alfo was it, in the time before the Jews had depofed God. Torment: of Hell. For Gods KinOdome was in Paleftine; and the Nations round about, were t c Kingdomes of the Enemy; andconfequently by Satan , is meant any Earthly Enemy of the Church. The Torments of Hell, are expreffed fometimes, by wee/2mg, and gnefliifig of teeth, as Met. 8. 12. Sometimes, by the worm of Can/creme, as l/A.66. 24. and Mar/e 9. 44, 46, 48 : fometimcs , by fire, as in the place now quoted,1vhere the warm dyer/1 not, M! the fire £5 not quenched, and many places befide : fometimes by flmme, and emumpt, as Dan. 12.2. And many of them that flee}: m the 4'1er of the Earth/hall awake, fame to Iii/01.1 mg life-,rmd/om tit/heme, and ever/effing enmemft. All which places deiign meta- phorically a grief, and difcontent of mind, from the light ofthii Eternal] felicity in others , which they themfelves through their own incredulity, and difobedience have loft. And became their felicity in others , is not fenlible but by companion With their own actual] miferies~7 it followetli that they are to {infer {itch bodily paines, and calamities, as are incident to thofe,who not 011:]; live under evil] and cruel] Governours, but have alfofor Enclll). the Eternal] King of the Saints, God Almighty. And amongit thefe bodily paines,is to be reckoned alfo to evefy one of the \Vlt'lx'td afecond Deatli.l3orthough the Scripture bee clear ioranunmrth] Refurrec‘tion; yet wee do not read, that to any ofthe Reprobate :S promifed an Eternal] life.For whereas St. Paella C0r.)§".42.-_13. lto the queltion concerning what bodies men ihall rife \Vit]i.tg.iin,ilt:tlr, that the hody z‘r fawn in corruption, aim/15' raijedin Divert/(prim; 11:; few: in diflwnourjrz: rtilfea'ingloryzir 1;: [012m in "Wimp, 1! ii: 7.11: fedinpmer; Glory and Power cannot be applyed to the bodio oi the wicked : Nor can the name of Second Dela/'2, bee applied I0 thofe that can never die but ODCCZAEd although in Metaphoricah fixed] 5 a Calamitous life Everlaitiii: , may bee called an Ei'ci" afiing Dmh Yet itcannox well be tuideriiood ofa Second Depth lit‘ COJVMON-WEAL TH. 6174;.38. The fire prepared for the wicked, is an Everl g'. Fire: that is to fay, t e efiate wherein no man can be withaftin out torture, both of body and mind, after the Refurrec‘tion, {hall endure for ever. and in that fenfe the Fire fliall be unquenchable, and the torme Everlafling : but it cannot thence be inferred, that hee who nt; {hall be cafi into that fire, or be tormented with thofe torme nts, {hall endure, and reliit them f0, as to be eternally burnt, and tortured and yet never be deflroyed, nor die. And though there be many places that aflirm Everlafting Fire, and TOrments ( into whic h men may becaflt fucceflively one after another for evers ) yet I find none that .aflirm‘ there {hall bee an Eternal] therein of any individual] perfon; but to the contrary, an EverLife lafiing Death,which IS the Second Death : Fer after Dent/1,4ndthe Grav tiered up the deedwhieh were in them, and every e/Ml have deli- Apoc.2o. t3 man he judged 40- Lia cording to hitmrhr; Death undt he Greet/e [be/Z a/fb he 671/! mm the Laheof Fire. Thisirthe Second Death. Wher there is to bee a Second Death of every eby itis evident that demned at the day of judgement, after one that {ball bee hon' which lice ihal] die no more. Thejoyes of Life Eternal], are in Scri turc com rehended a] . , ‘ under the name of SALVAT ION, or‘ heing?ve.¥. Topbe faved, isl 1711;: £733 2: to be fecured, either refpeétively, againfl lutely, againff all Evil], comprehending peciall Evills, or abfo- «mi Sahara; Death it lelt. And becaufe man was creatWant, Sicknefle, and l'l'eilfimé‘lblflged in a condition Iin- Sal-damn mortal], not fubjee‘t' to corruption, and confe that tendeth to the diffolution of his natur quently to nothing from 51"}; and, e; and fell from that li‘WnMifWh lrappineffc by the {in of Adam; it fol]oweth, that to beflat/ed from Sin, is to be faved from all the Evil] , and Calamities that Sinne hath brou ght upon us. And therefore in the Holy Scripture Remiilion ,ot Sinne, and Salvation from lame thing, as it appears by the words Death and Mifery is the of our Saviour,who'havin cured a man fick ot the Palley, by fayin cheer, thy Sm: heforgicum theegand knowg, (Met. 9.2.) San he ofgooa' ing that the Scribes took for blafphcmy,rhat a man fliould pretend to forgive Sins asked them (v. 5.)wherheritivere eafi‘er tofe; ,Thy 5mm: he forgive); the: W Arife and walk, fignifying thereby, that it was allone, as to the, fairing of the fick, _to lay, Thy Sim are fargive» that he uled that form of fpeech, onely, and Arife amt'nm/k to fliew he had power to" forgive Sins. And it is befides evide nt in reafon, that fince Death and Mifery,were thepuniihmcnts ofSin alfo bett diicliarge of Death and Mifcry;,the difcharge of Sinne mufl: abfolute, fuch as the faithful] are to enJo that is to fay Salv'ation y after the day ofjudgment by the power, and favour ofjefus Chrif t who for that caufc is called OUISAVIOUR) Concerning Particular Salvations fuch as "(11‘ underlioo 14.39.41 the card liwth that fiwet h 'I/rael, that i5, from thgi:' 4 " tsen'i: £13m", enemies,and 2 Sflm.}22.4. Thwart my Saviour, the» [we/h may: wagon"; and 2. ngr I 3.5. Godgarue the [flee/m: a Savi- . I for eywere delwereelfra m the hand of the Affyriam, and thc iz like, "11""- |