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  • The right of nature whereby God reigneth over men, and punisheth those that break his laws, is to be derived, not from His creating them, as if He required obedience as of gratitude for His benefits, but from His irresistible power.

    Leviathan 2007

  • God is angry, punisheth and threateneth, because of their obstinacy and stubbornness, they will not turn unto him.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • For seeing every subject is author of the actions of his sovereign, he punisheth another for the actions committed by himself.

    Leviathan 2007

  • For God is merciful unto all, because better to the worst than the best deserve; and to say he punisheth none in this world, though it be a paradox, is no absurdity.

    Religio Medici 2007

  • Nay, ye are but men,- of the men he hath created: He forgiveth whom He pleaseth, and He punisheth whom He pleaseth: and to Allah belongeth the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and all that is between: and unto Him is the final goal of all

    Think Progress » Iraq’s New Freedom on Display: Hundreds of Thousands Chant ‘Death To America’ 2006

  • And if any man offend the prince, he punisheth it extremely, not onely in the person that offendeth, but also in his children, and in as many as are of his kin.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • God punisheth adultery by death, Leviticus 20: 10.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • For them without, if any one will, against my consent, intrude himself upon my family enjoyments, to share with me, or violently come to take away that is mine, or disturb me in the quiet possession of it, the magistrate takes cognizance of such disturbances, and punisheth them according to equity.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • God necessarily punisheth sin; for Christ himself, in his agony, placeth the passing away of the cup among things possible.

    A Dissertation on Divine Justice 1616-1683 1967

  • [60] Impudent to a high degree indeed, then, must Socinus have been, who hath maintained that that perfection of Deity by which he punisheth sin is not called justice, but always anger or fury.

    A Dissertation on Divine Justice 1616-1683 1967

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