“Then shall He say… ‘Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.'”
Mt. 25:41
“…and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:”
Rev. 14:10
“And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.”
Rev. 20:14
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Order of Contents
Articles 5
Necessity of 1
Duration of 1
Purgatory 1
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Articles
1600’s
Ames, William – ch. 16, ‘The Consummation of Death’ in The Marrow of Theology tr. John D. Eusden (1623; Baker, 1997), bk. 1, pp. 125-27
Ames (1576-1633) was an English, puritan, congregationalist, minister, philosopher and controversialist. He spent much time in the Netherlands, and is noted for his involvement in the controversy between the reformed and the Arminians. Voet highly commended Ames’s Marrow for learning theology.
Walaeus, Anthony – 52. ‘On Life & Death Everlasting & on the End of the World’ in Synopsis of a Purer Theology: Latin Text & English Translation Buy (1625; Brill, 2016), vol. 3, pp. 582-625
Maccovius, John – ch. 22, ‘On Condemnation’ in Scholastic Discourse: Johannes Maccovius (1588-1644) on Theological & Philosophical Distinctions & Rules (1644; Apeldoorn: Instituut voor Reformatieonderzoek, 2009), pp. 285-89
Maccovius (1588–1644) was a reformed, supralapsarian Polish theologian.
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1700’s
Mather, Cotton – The Valley of Hinnom. The Terrors of Hell Demonstrated & the Methods of Escaping the Terrible Miseries of the Punishments on the Wicked there, Declared. In a sermon preached in the hearing, and at the request, of a man under a sentence of death for a murder; just before the execution of the sentence; and upon a text by himself assigned for the sermon to insist upon (Boston, 1717) on Mt. 10:28 55 pp.
Edwards, Jonathan – Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, Deut. 32:35 (1741) 38 paragraphs
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On the Necessity of Hell
Dabney, Robert – Vindicatory Justice Essential to God (1881) 17 pp.
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On the Duration of Hell
“The eternal punishment endured by the sinner can never be finished, as the infinite punishment endured by Christ was; it will ever fall short of legal acquital.”
John ‘Rabbi’ Duncan
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Alexander, Archibald – Universalism False and Unscriptural: an Essay on the Duration and Intensity of Future Punishment (1851) 104 pp.
Here is an example of Alexander’s polemics against the rising tide of his day that denied the eternity and retributive nature of Hell.
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“There is nothing but Christ between us and hell; and, thanks be to God, we need nothing else.”
“It is death to be separated from Christ for a moment.”
John ‘Rabbi’ Duncan
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