The souls exaltation A treatiseThe soules exaltation A treatise

First, the pain of the soul comes either from a cause without, or a cause within, or from both: If a man were to go to hell, it came either from his own sin deserving it, or from Gods wrath inflicting it, or from both; now Christ did ⟨p. 225⟩suffer punishments in his soul, but not so farre• they came for his own sin; the cause from within is sinful and detestable, but the cause from without is holy and righteous; therefore all that which came from Gods wrath inflicting punishment, all that Christ did suffer was so; but the wicked have a cause of sin within them, and that Christ having not, he needed not to suffer, and because he had no sin in him, he did not suffer all pains of hell; he suffered the displeasure of Gods wrath, but yet so much of the punishment as came from sin committed, that our Saviour did not suffer.

First, the paine of the soule comes either from a cause without, or a cause within, or from both: If a man were to goe to hell, it came either from his owne sinne deserving it, or from Gods wrath inflicting it, or from both; now Christ did ⟨p. 225⟩suffer punishments in his soule, but not so farre• they came for his owne sinne; the cause from within is sinfull and detestable, but the cause from without is holy and righteous; therefore all that which came from Gods wrath inflicting punishment, all that Christ did suffer was so; but the wicked have a cause of sinne within them, and that Christ having not, hee needed not to suffer, and because he had no sinne in him, he did not suffer all pains of hell; hee suffered the displeasure of Gods wrath, but yet so much of the punishment as came from sin committed, that our Saviour did not suffer.

Secondly, a poor creature bearing Gods anger, he hath not only Gods anger se•ing upon him, but also it overwhelms him, because he is not able to bear it: the plague prevails against him, not only the wrath of God lies upon a sinner in hell, but it crusheth him there, that he can never go from it: and this Divines call the absolute damnation, such a damnation as overturn a sinner in hell, and crusheth him there for evermore. The reason why a sins never comes out of hell, is this; because his sufferings are not infinitely satisfiable, according as his sins have been infinite to provoke God; for as Adams sin was infinite and provoking because it was against his Godhead, so the sufferings must be infinite; now the sufferings of Christ were of infinite value, but Adams sufferings were not of an infinite nature: Christ bore the wrath of God and wrestled with it, and overcame it, and came out from under