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Punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power. –2 Thessalonians 1:9 (KJV)

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The Apostle says in 2 Thessalonians 1:9, that the wicked shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power. This is to be understood causally; as if he should have said, that the destruction of the wicked shall arise from God’s presence and glorious power, which shall put forth itself so mightily, as to glorify itself in the punishment of them in hell. God will appear in heaven to the angels and saints, in a flame of love, and make immediate and most sweet impressions thereof upon them, which will be their chief happiness. And God will appear in hell to devils and damned spirits in a flame of wrath, as a consuming fire, and make immediate impressions of his wrath upon them, which will be their chief misery. For sinners to be taken thus into the hands of God, and punished by the fire of his wrath will be more dreadful, than if the most furious creatures in the world were mustered up together, and let loose upon them to tear them in pieces and devour them. If they were tormented with the most exquisite torments, which can possibly proceed from any second causes, it would be no more than the biting of a flea, or the prick of a pin in comparison with these immediate strokes of God’s vengeance, and the burning under the fire of his indignation.   –Thomas Vincent, “Fire and Brimstone” (1670)

They called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. –Acts 4:18 (KJV)

Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money. –Acts 8:20 (KJV)

Do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. –Galatians 1:10 (KJV)

Ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness…these are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.    –Jude 4, 16 (KJV)

Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which he commanded them not. And there went out fire from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.  –Leviticus 10:1-2 (KJV)

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Mack Tomlinson, In Light of Eternity: The Life of Leonard Ravenhill.

Gary Wilkerson, David Wilkerson.

John R. Rice, Why Preach Against Sin? Sword of the Lord Publishers, 1946.

—. Hell! What the Bible Says About It. Sword of the Lord Publishers, 1942.

Originally from here.

Taken from ch. 6 on “Perseverance,” in Randolph Foster’s Objections to Calvinism As It Is.

John Wesley’s Serious Thoughts Upon the Perseverance of the Saints (1751): his tract against eternal security. 

Jesse Morrell’s books and his edition of Randolph Foster’s Objections to Calvinism.

You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell. –Matthew 5:27-30

Without holiness no one will see the Lord.  –Hebrews 12:14