A learned and very useful commentary on the whole epistle to the Hebrews wherein every word and particle in the original is explained ... : being the substance of thirty years Wednesdayes lectures at Black-fryers, London / by that holy and learned divine Wiliam Gouge ... : before which is prefixed a narrative of his life and death : whereunto is added two alphabeticall tables ...

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Title: A learned and very useful commentary on the whole epistle to the Hebrews wherein every word and particle in the original is explained ... : being the substance of thirty years Wednesdayes lectures at Black-fryers, London / by that holy and learned divine Wiliam Gouge ... : before which is prefixed a narrative of his life and death : whereunto is added two alphabeticall tables ...
Author: Gouge, William, 1578-1653.
Publication: London :: Printed by A.M., T.W. and S.G. for Joshua Kirton,; 1655.
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§. 98. Of the fiercenesse of Gods wrath.

THis Epithite, fiery, being added to the former word, indignation, whereby the hot wrath of God is aggravated, giveth us to understand, that Gods wrath is •…•…oy. It is fierce, violent, burning, torturing, tormenting. This phrase, fervor of •…•…re, thus expressed fiery indignation, addeth much emphasis: It is like this phrase in another kind, the power of his might, Eph. 6. 10. This fiercenesse of Gods wrath it by sundry Prophets set out to the life, as, Deut. 32. 21, 22. &c. Psal. 18. 7, 8. and 21. 9. Is•…•…. 30. 33. Ier. 17. 4. Ezek. 38. 19. In the New Testament the manifestation of Gods wrath is set down in the world to come, as 2 Thes. 1. 8. Matth. 25. 41. Rev. 20. 10, 15. and 21. 8.

Quest. Is it a materiall fire wherewith the damned in hell are tormented?* 1.1

Answ. This is too curious a point to resolve to the full: but yet this answer may safely be returned.

It is no wasting or consuming fire, but a torturing: and so far corporeall as it tormenteth the body: and so far incorporeall as it tormenteth the soul: for it is prepared for the devill and his Angels, which have no bodies, Matth. 25. 41.

1. The ground of the fiercenesse of this wrath, is the greatnesse of the person, whose wrath is incensed; as his greatnesse is, so is his indignation, infinite, and in∣comprehensible.
2. The heinousnesse of the sin, for the punishment is proportioned according to desert.
3. Want of means to quench this fire: If a great fire be kindled, and much fuell added, and no water to quench it, it cannot be but very great.

This affords matter of caution, to take heed of kindling this fire, or bringing fu∣elunto it. Will a wise man bring fire to Gun-powder, or to a stack of dry bavens? Consider the care of this City in preventing and quenching fires. Much more care∣full should we be about the fiery indignation here mentioned. It seizeth, First, on the bodies of men, and on their soules, Luk. 12. 5. Thirdly, on their Families, Zach. 5. 4. Fourthly, on whole Cities, Gen. 19. 24, 25. Fifthly, on nations, Zeph. 3. 6. Seventhly, on the whole world, Gen. 7. 11. Eighthly, yea, for ever in the world to come, Matth. 25. 41. Of rules for preventing this fiery indignation, see A Plaister for the plague, on Numb. 16. 44. §. 3, 4, 5, &c. See also v. 25. §. 79.

Notes

* 1.1

Is there mats∣tiall fire in hel.

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