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Destruction.] This is the measure of their punishment. O yet if the Justice of God would but chide them, not beat them: or if it did beat them, yet with rods, •ot with scourges: or if it did scourge them, yet with whips, not with Scorpions: or •f with Scorpions, yet not with burning flames: or if with burning flames, yet not with unquenchable flames: Oh yet it any thing might serve but utter and endless •uine; Destruction! This is an indefinite word, of full latitude, that knows neither measure nor cessation; but comprehends all plagues, external on body, internal on •oule, eternal on both: a punishment of extremity, of universality; Destruction.

Destruction.] This is the measure of their punishment. O yet if the Iustice of God would but chide them, not beat them: or if it did beat them, yet with rods, •ot with scourges: or if it did scourge them, yet with whips, not with Scorpions: or •f with Scorpions, yet not with burning flames: or if with burning flames, yet not with unquenchable flames: Oh yet it any thing might serve but utter and endlesse •uine; Destruction! This is an indefinite word, of full latitude, that knowes neither measure nor cessation; but comprehends all plagues, externall on body, internall on •oule, eternall on both: a punishment of extremitie, of universalitie; Destruction.

God concealeth the m•nner, but denounceth the measure. Destruction is either temporal in this world, or eternal in the world to come. If we first consider it temporally, we shall find it heavy enough: Incerti generis, sed certissimi ponderis. Jonas 3.4. Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be destroyed. He lets them know of a deruction, but he tells them not how: the quantity is plain, the quality is hidden. Nineveh might have been plagued many ways, and yet stood upon her foundation ill. With want of rain, as Samaria in the days of Ahab: with want of bread, at women did eat their own children, as in the days of Jehoram: with pestilence, s in the days of David: with the siege of enemies, as was Betulia: with the tyranny and exaction of her own Kings, as once was Rome. But these are all too ought in GODS balance, and nothing will satisfy his Justice, but her final subveron. So is it denounced against the wicked,