A. Though the Holy Writings which we call the Bible, often assert and inculcate this Perdition to be Everlasting; yet some (no mean Men) have otherwise un∣derstood it, as Origen, &c. haply being replenish'd and swallow'd up with infinite Love and Grace of the Holy second Principle, they could not penetrate the extent of this, nor should Adam nor his Offspring have so done.
8. But we having kindled so much of it in us, are to know it, not to distract or distress us, but to warn us, as Paul saith, knowing the Terrors of the Lord, we per∣swade, &c. This Wrath is of Eternal Duration; for it is of Eternal uncreated Ex∣traction as to its Original. It is always Morning with it, bearing equal date with God's other Attributes, and so with God himself.
9. God being infinitely all that he is, is also infinitely Just, and Almighty, True and Faithful; we can no more say his Grace and Love to have Priority, than the Light of a Candle can precede the firing the wiek, or than Man's Intellect could pre∣cede the enkindling his Humane Soul, or than the Fruit can prevent the Tree, or That the Root.
10. Can we well conceive the Eternal Permanence of God's Goodness, and why not his Infinite Power and Justice, is there room to doubt that to be a part of him?
11. Must the Fruit and Flower live, and not the Root? must the Eye see, if the Man dye? or the Candle shine, when the Wiek is cold? Then may the Principle of Sweetness, Meekness, Grace and Love, survive the Principle of Strength, Might, Potence and Wrath.